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The NSF is seeking candidates for Program Director in the Systematics and Biodiversity Sciences (SBS) Cluster within the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) in Arlington, VA.
The DEB supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles. Research on origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as well as theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or simulation modeling.
The SBS Cluster supports research that advances our understanding of the diversity, systematics, and evolutionary history of organisms in natural systems. This research addresses fundamental questions in biodiversity, taxonomy, and phylogenetics, such as: What kinds of organisms exist in the natural world? How are they related? How did evolution lead to patterns of global biodiversity in time and space? How can phylogenetic history shed light on evolutionary patterns and processes in nature? Example topics include: expeditionary biodiversity research and discovery; identification and classification of organisms; and phylogeny and comparative phylogenetic biology. The SBS Cluster seeks to fund projects that are transformative - that is, those that innovatively and fundamentally transform our approaches to analyzing and understanding global biodiversity, its origins, distribution, and evolutionary history. The Cluster places a high value on integrative and holistic approaches to systematics research and training - i.e., those approaches and projects that integrate across all the components within the cluster (biodiversity discovery, organismal biology, taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution) and that train highly integrative systematists who can conduct research across the entire spectrum of these activities.
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McDonald's popular slogan may be "I'm lovin' it," but consumers beg to differ. The fast food icon was joined by Burger King, KFC and Taco Bell among the lower ranked chains in Consumer Reports' first-ever major fast food ratings.
The survey, based on responses from 36,733 subscribers who made more than 98,000 visits to 53 fast-food chains, revealed that readers found them to offer uninspiring food and service that was only so-so. Other major chains with relatively low scores: sandwich shops Arby's and Quiznos and pizza joints Domino's and Pizza Hut. "Chains like McDonald's and Taco Bell boast super-sized values, but consumers don't necessarily think they offer much bang for the buck," said Tod Marks, senior projects editor for Consumer Reports. "Fifty-four percent of our subscribers cited low prices as a reason for picking a particular fast-food restaurant." By contrast, the survey revealed good deals and even better meals at dozens of ever-present fast-food restaurants. CR's readers gave 21 of the 53 chains high marks for food. Among the winners: -- For burger fans, In-N-Out Burger rated highest of all 53 chains rated in CR's Survey with high scores for food, service, value and speed. -- Chipotle Mexican Grill was among the best of eight leading Mexican food chains and earned high scores for food, politeness of staff and speed of service. -- One chicken chain topped the rest hands down: Chick-fil-A. With outstanding scores for politeness of staff, and high marks for food, value and speed of service, respondents rated it higher than seven other leading poultry stops. -- If you're craving a top-notch wedge, hero, hoagie or sub served quickly with a smile on the side, try Jason's Deli or Firehouse Subs. Readers gave them the highest marks for food and favorable scores for politeness of staff and speed of services among 11 sandwich and sub chains. -- The single standout for pizza: Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza, which has an unconventional concept where the patrons order a pizza to bake at home. It earned the highest marks for food and exceptional scores for value, staff politeness and speed of service among the pizza chains.
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10 U.S. Code § 6331 - Members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve: transfer to the retired list; retired pay
(a) When he has completed 30 years of service, or when he is found not physically qualified in an examination under section 6485 of this title, a member of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve shall be transferred—
(1) to the retired list of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps, as appropriate, if he was a member of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps at the time of his transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; or
(b) For the purpose of subsection (a), a member's years of service are computed by adding—
(1) the years of service credited to him upon his transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve;
(2) his years of active and inactive service in the armed forces before his transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve not credited to him upon that transfer; and
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 397; Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(4–6), Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 480; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 515(b)(1)(K),Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3233.)
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|34 U.S.C. 854e (2d and 4th provisos).
|June 25, 1938, ch. 690, § 206 (2d and 4th provisos), 52 Stat. 1179; Apr. 25, 1940, ch. 153, 54 Stat. 162.
|34 U.S.C. 854 (note).
|July 9, 1952, ch. 608, § 803 (3d sentence), 66 Stat. 505.
In subsection (a) the words "transferred * * * in accordance with the provisions of this section and of sections 853 and 854b of this title", in the fourth proviso of 34 U.S.C. 854c, and the words "transferred after sixteen years' or more service in the Regular Navy", and "men coming under the cognizance of sections 853 and 854b of this title", in the second proviso of 34 U.S.C. 854e, are omitted as surplusage since the classes designated by these phrases comprise all members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.
Subsection (b) is worded so as to cover all members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve regardless of the law under which they attained that status. A member transferring under 34 U.S.C. 854b may count only active naval service in computing the service required for that transfer, but in determining his eligibility for retirement he may add to his active naval service all previous active or inactive service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, and his time in the Fleet Reserve. A member transferring to the Fleet Reserve under 34 U.S.C. 854c may count active service in any armed force toward that transfer, and he determines his eligibility for retirement by adding to the service credited to him at the time of transfer any previous inactive service in the armed forces and his time in the Fleet Reserve. As to the latter member the words "active service" in clause (2) are superfluous, since such service would have been credited to him upon his transfer to the Fleet Reserve, but they are needed in the case of a member transferred under 34 U.S.C. 854b.
In subsection (c) references to the "allowances to which enlisted men of the Navy are entitled on retirement after thirty years' service", in the second and fourth provisos of 34 U.S.C. 854e, are omitted because of the repeal, by § 19 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 369, of the laws authorizing such allowances.
2006—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 109–163substituted "Navy Reserve" for "Naval Reserve".
1958—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(4), provided for the transfer to the appropriate Retired Reserve of those members of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve who had transferred thereto from the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(5), struck out "of clause (2)".
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(6), inserted "or the Retired Reserve" after "retired list" wherever appearing.
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Apparently, Star magazine is reporting that LeAnn Rimes is "finally pregnant!"
But Rimes, 30, finds it all funny. The story prompted the star to jump on Twitter and quickly squash it.
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TNT analyst Reggie Miller will broadcast the Thunder-Nuggets game at 9:30 p.m. Thursday with Kevin Harlan and reporter Craig Sager as the second game of TNT's doubleheader. New York hosts Miami in the first game at 7 p.m. (Marv Albert, Steve Kerr and reporter Rachel Nichols). The Thunder-Nuggets game also will air on FSOK (Brian Davis, Grant Long and reporter Lesley McCaslin). Miller, a former UCLA and Indiana Pacers star guard, discussed the Thunder and NBA in a phone interview.
TNT analyst Reggie Miller raves about development of young Thunder players Reggie Jackson, Jeremy Lamb and Steven Adams
What has surprised you about the Thunder?
"The play of Jeremy Lamb and Steven Adams really intrigues me because for so many years the success was the big three, originally with Westbrook, Harden and Durant. Then with Harden going to Houston, everyone was wondering who is going to be that third person. Ibaka has shown that at times, but hasn't been consistent. But between Reggie Jackson and Jeremy Lamb, those two guys are forming up to be pretty good. With more time with Westbrook on the mend for another two to three weeks, this time really helps Reggie and Jeremy. I really like how Jeremy is playing right now. He seems to be comfortable with his game. He's making that outside shot, which was a question mark. And he's showing a level of maturity and toughness that I haven't seen at all last year.
"They are deep, they're young. At the end of the day, it comes down to the health of Westbrook and Durant. And Durant has been fantastic. To me, they're the team to beat in the West because it's all about matchups. When Westbrook got hurt last year, obviously (it) opened the avenue for them to be beat. San Antonio can't match up with OKC. But in my opinion, OKC has a problem with teams like the Clippers and Golden State whereas San Antonio beats up Golden State and the Clippers."
Three knee surgeries in one year, is that something the team has to be concerned about?
"Oh, I'm sure. But again this is a guy who hasn't missed a game dating all the way back to high school. So a lot of it could be wear and tear over the years, overusage, and this could be a blessing in disguise. He was never going to beat A.C. Green's (consecutive game) record. Why push yourself to that? What's more important? Is it being healthy going into playoffs for that stretch run? It's a blessing because of the development of Jackson and Lamb. Look, Sam Presti did it again with Steven Adams. I love that kid. He's tough. He knows his role. He rebounds. He gets hit in the face and looks at you crazy. He has great hands. But again it's the scouting department, and Sam Presti. They don't have the luxury of getting big free agents because the owner will open up the pocketbook because they don't care about the luxury tax. ... I love everything about OKC because they remind me a lot of my 18 years in Indiana. They play in a small market. They are really the only show in town. Although we had the Colts, they didn't really come on until I retired. When you're the only show in town, they live and die through your every game. That's what makes it so special."
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Along Mariano Riveras farewell tour which comes to a close this afternoon in Houston the retiring New York Yankee has been celebrated as much for being one of baseballs most humble ambassadors as for being its most decorated relief pitcher.
The Fayle family from Lowville is one of dozens around the nation that can tell you why.
Mike Fayle, along with his parents, wife and three sons, was granted a request to meet Rivera prior to a July 26 game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium.
Once in a lifetime opportunity for us, Fayle said. To say well get that lucky again, I dont think that will ever happen. But it was just a very cool experience.
The Fayle family visit was one of the many along Riveras season-long Farewell Tour.
Their story was one of several chronicled by ESPNNewYork.com writer Ian OConnor two weeks ago.
(Rivera) was just a classy guy and took the time, he sure as heck didnt run us out of there, Fayle added. He was like, Welcome, come on in, come on in. He shook everybodys hand and he gave my mom a hug.
Rivera had announced his intention to retire at seasons end at age 43 as Major League Baseballs all-time career leader with 652 saves, entering todays game. His 18-year career includes five World Series titles, the 1999 World Series Most Valuable Player award and 13 all-star appearances.
But before hanging it up, Rivera wanted to partner with the Yankees to meet with fans before and after games throughout his final season.
According to OConnors article, the victory lap included town hall meetings at 18 ballparks in 17 cities along with personal visits with the terminally ill, bombing victims, grieving family members, or just regular everyday people – like the Fayles.
He was very cordial and sincere, said Fayle, a lifelong Yankees fan that attends a game each summer.
Just a guy who works hard and tries to do good for a lot of people. Hes paying it forward with his career, not only just getting his millions, but hes turned around and done a lot of good things in return.
Fayles father, Tom, saw an ad for the Farewell Tour on the YES Network this spring.
He wrote a letter to the Yankees media relations office with a request for his grandson, Connor, and Mikes other two sons to meet Rivera before the July game, right around the time of Connors 16th birthday.
Tom Fayle grew up in the Bronx and often waited in the parking lot hoping to meet his favorite Yankee, Mickey Mantle. Toms mother was also a die-hard fan and would attend games to watch Babe Ruth.
It must have caught their attention, and I think a lot of it was the generation thing, Mike Fayle said. Heres just everyday people that are still loyal to our organization and come and watch games when they can.
The Yankees contacted Mike Fayle not too long after that and said the request had been granted.
At first I was like, Yeah, OK. Who is this? I thought someone was playing a game with me, he said.
Fayle told his wife and mother but kept it a secret from his father and sons.
We had the poker face going, and it worked, Fayle said.
I would tell my dad: There are so many Yankee fans all around the world and theyre probably getting a thousand letters a day and a thousand requests, and were just from small Lowville. What are the chances? Probably nothings going to happen, but thank you for trying.
When the Fayles arrived at the game, Mike told his family that they had to enter through the media gate because it had the best merchandise booth.
They then met their hostess, went onto the field for batting practice and met some of their other favorites, like second baseman Robinson Cano and manager Joe Girardi, to name a few.
Were bleacher seat people, Fayle said. We dont go to the first or third baseline or right behind home plate, were just simple folk and we keep it simple. The Yankees were very nice, and the surprise for my dad and my kids, they were just floored. The day of the game, they couldnt believe it.
The clan was then taken to the clubhouse, where MLBs greatest closer ever sat in shorts, a T-shirt and flip-flops.
He chatted and signed balls for the group and left a special message on Connors ball, which was from a 2008 game in Toronto that Rivera tossed to him while on shagging duty for pregame batting practice. It said, under the signature The last to wear 42.
He definitely went out of his way for us and obviously he didnt have to. He was just very sincere and I appreciated that for the kids sake, Fayle said.
Just this week, Fayle unexpectedly received photos in the mail from the Yankees that were signed by Rivera.
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Jody Wills, the woman who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer, is in the Shelby County Detention Center today, serving a 9-month sentence for those crimes.
Senior Judge Steve Mershon on Friday discarded the plea bargain that Wills accepted in December, ignored demands from prosecutors for a long sentence and accepted Wills' teary plea for leniency.
In 1998, attorney Mark Dean opened a law office in Shelbyville, and Jody Wills, 23, the new mother of an infant son, left her job as a teller at Citizens Union Bank to be his office manager.
She immediately won Dean's trust, admiration and his affection. For seven years she was his aide de camp, bookkeeper and – ultimately – his lover.
The Make Shelbyville Restaurants Smoke Free group has taken the Shelbyville City Counci'ls suggestion and requested and received an audience with Shelby County Fiscal Court.
Fiscal Court has scheduled a workshop on Feb. 23 to hear Vladi Gomelsky's presentation, about a month after Gomelsky spoke to the city council.
Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger said Fiscal Court put the presentation in a workshop because of the informal setting.
Jody Wills of Shelbyville was sentenced Friday to 9 months in the county jail and her 10-year plea agreement was probated for 5 years by Senior Judge Steve Mershon.
She has to make restitution of $720,000 that she admitted embezzling from her employer, attorney Mark Dean's law office in Shelbyville. The state had sought restitution of $800,000.
She was immediately booked into custody at the Shelby County Detention Center.
Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty wrapped up a quiet City Council meeting Thursday by passing on a few spirited messages to city property owners.
Hardesty reminded property owners that clearing sidewalks of snow and debris is their responsibility, not the city's. And he noted that the downtown-shopping district needs to be better taken care of.
Barring an unforeseen change in the weather and road conditions, Shelby County Public Schools will reopen Thursday. Gary Kidwell, director of Student Accounting and Support Services, made the announcement just a few minutes ago.
Shelby Countians managed to get through the season's heaviest snowfall on Tuesday, but they might find the going even tougher today.
Shelby County was hit with a 6-inch snowfall on top the 1-2 inches that fell on Saturday, giving the county a blanket of white that was enjoyed by students who stayed home from schools and adults whose businesses closed or had a short day.
With the temperatures hovering around freezing, they found the conditions comfortable enough to build snowmen, sled down hills and make homemade snow cream.
Steve Wortham has stepped down after 7 years as Shelby County's director of emergency medical services.
That announcement was delivered to Shelby County Fiscal Court on Tuesday night by Todd Early, former deputy director and now has been named acting EMS Director.
County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger said that last week, Wortham told him that he wanted to go back to his old job of paramedic, for personal reasons,
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All animals eventually grow old and die. It's an inevitable fact of life — except when it isn't. Some animals, like tortoises and lobsters, never grow old, and learning their secrets could let humans live as long as they want.
For most animals, there are three basic ways they can die: disease, injury, or old age, which is also called senescence. But a select few species are seemingly immune from aging itself, a phenomenon known as negligible senescence. The gradual accumulation of cellular damage and degradation that will eventually kill other animals (including us) slows to a virtual standstill, prolonging the life — and, in fact, the youth — of any animal lucky enough to be negligibly senescent.
Tortoises are the most famous negligibly senescent animals. An Aldabra giant tortoise named Adwaita was thought to be 255 years old when he died in 2006, and carbon dating of his shell confirmed that he really had been born around 1750.


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- Riot Taiwanese police abused the "police right" and beat up unarmed Taiwanese students.
- Unarmed students who went to the events of protesting the under-table deal of economical treaty between Taiwan and China was beaten severely by Taiwanese police in front of Executive Yuan.
- Taiwanese police is using violence towards unarmed Taiwanese people.
Anti-Nuclear Power Plant #4 people were treated people with powerful water cannon
To halt the ongoing project of building Nuclear Power Plant #4 and support Yi-hsiung Lin who is going on a hunger strike for more than 7 days,protesting people occupied the main road, Jnongsiao West Rd, in front of Taipei Main Station. Water Cannon started to evacuate protesting people at Taipei Main Station. The polices use batons and dragged peaceful people. There were 20 protesting students treated with powerful water cannon while around 5000 police stand-by on the spot.
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Flexible work hours permit workers to vary the times they arrive at and leave their work places. The proportion of workers with flexible work schedules is highest for executive, sales, and professional jobs, and lowest for some manufacturing occupations.
At 45.5 percent, full-time workers in executive and administrative jobs were most likely to have flexible work schedules in 2001. At 40.7 and 35.5 percent, respectively, workers in sales and in professional specialty occupations had the next highest incidences of flexible work schedules.
For many production workers in manufacturing and protective service workers such as police officers and firefighters, the nature of the work requires that it begin and end at set times. Operators, fabricators, and laborers—a group that includes assemblers and machine operators in manufacturing—had the lowest proportion of workers with flexible hours in 2001, at 13.7 percent. Other occupations with relatively low incidences of flexible hours were protective service jobs at 16.0 percent and precision production, craft, and repair occupations at 18.3 percent.
These data are a product of the Current Population Survey. Learn more about flexible work schedules in "Workers on Flexible and Shift Schedules in 2001," USDL news release 02-225.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nearly half of executives have flexible work hours on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2002/apr/wk4/art04.htm (visited October 10, 2015).
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The "blogosphere" is a HUGE place, but there are so many wonderful and inspiring things to read. Many women sit down each day to share their thoughts, struggles, and triumphs. So, what should you check out?
– – Just before the holiday chaos begins to consume us, head to Money Saving Mom and read about celebrating a simple Christmas to help you (hopefully) keep your head during a time of packed malls, young children with a case of the "gimmes", and shopping maniacs.
– – Along the same lines, visit Keeping the Kingdom First to accep the 30-Day Giving Challenge. It's already started, but you can join in late and start giving in a small way every day.
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Chriswrote a review of Louis Garneau Treelium Helmet on July 6, 2012
Lightweight, and cool
I have had this helmet for a few weeks now, and can say after using it for the first time that I think it is a very nice helmet. Very comfortable, and has pretty good airflow as well. Easy to get just the right fit with the dial on the back, and there were no pressure points that I could feel while riding. Overall, a good deal if you can find one in stock somewhere. I bought the white model, and a friend has the green. Personally I like the white better, but that is up to you to decide. Who cares though if you crash, so long as it protects your brain! I am giving it a 5 star rating because I have no problems with it. This is my first bike helmet (I know, I know) so I have nothing to compare it with. That said, it is comfortable, has good airflow, and is easy to adjust; what more do you need?


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Help low-level and nonreaders recognize essential, everyday signs. Four different activities help strengthen students' knowledge of 75 common signs and symbols. Activities include matching pictures to written cues, or for limited readers, matching signs and symbols to spoken cues. Students then "flip" each sign to learn its meaning and common locations.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 25 -- Tulsa-based Syntroleum Corp., owner of a proprietary air-blown, gas-to-liquids process for converting stranded gas reserves to liquid fuels, plans to commercialize small, barge-mounted GTL plants to develop offshore natural gas assets in the 1-3 tcf range and to process associated rich gas that might otherwise be flared or reinjected.
The plant will sit on a 200 ft by 400 ft barge weighing 35,000 tonnes, which is designed to produce 20,000 b/d of total liquid products. This includes 12,000 b/d of GTL products of which 8,000 b/d is zero-sulfur diesel fuel. The balance is a mix of natural gas liquids.
The GTL barge will focus on offshore gas reserves in shallow water or on onshore gas reserves near coastlines over a 20 year life. The company said it plans to use its GTL technology, as well as other third party gas processing technologies, to develop and participate in gas projects in a number of global locations. Using specific screening criteria, such as a field's proximity to shore and its geographic location, it has identified more than 40 uncontracted gas fields as initial targets for development.
Syntroleum said it intends to build and deploy a fleet of the barges during the next 10 years, and is actively seeking industry participants to build and operate the first GTL barge.
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The site's founders have been collecting stories from over 30 organizations, including Fodors, Unicef, and Audible, as well as submissions from users. You can browse a map showing story locations, or even search a specific address. After an initial private beta where 5,000 users populated the site with content, Broadcastr is now available to the public. Its potential success is based on the founders' belief that audio recordings make users less self-conscious than they would be about writing. "If you just say to them, 'Tell me,' everyone in the room could do it, and the way that they tell the story would express to the listener a lot about how they feel," he said.
In addition to its website, Broadcastr also has plans for both Android and iPhone apps. Broadcastr: how about including NPR's Storycorps series? In my opinion, that's one of the only things that would make this venture an even better idea.


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Edgartown - The White House on Friday called a Chinese jet's close brush with a US surveillance plane over Japan a deeply concerning provocation and said US officials had protested to Beijing.The Chinese plane came within 9 metres of the American aircraft, the Pentagon said.Ben Rhodes, deputy White House national security adviser, told reporters the move was a "deeply concerning provocation."
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An abrasive, intense and imaginative Nordic riff on the prison flick which boasts a stand-out turn from the always-reliable Stellan Skarsgård.
"The world could drown and it would have nothing to do with us."
This is how Governor Bestyreren (Stellan Skarsgård) describes the hermetic regime at the Residential School for maladjusted boys on Norway's Bastøy Island. That he is speaking in 1915, during the Great War in which Norway remained officially neutral, brings to his words a dimension of national allegory.
Indeed this film, though fictionalised, is rooted in an actual event: an uprising of the Island's young inmates that would lead to one of only two occasions in Norwegian history when soldiers turned guns on their own fellow-citizens (and on adolescent citizens at that). For beneath the staid, ordered, colour-dulled surfaces of Marius Holst's King of Devil's Island lurk various forms of hypocrisy, corruption and abuse, suggesting something very rotten in the (then) state of Norway.
The Governor is talking to the Island's newest arrival, Erling (Benjamin Helstad), a sailor in his late teens who has narrowly avoided prison for murder. His illiteracy standing in for our own ignorance (if not quite innocence), Erling will become our cicerone to the tough life on Bastøy, as he eventually forms a friendship with long-term 'resident' Olav (Trond Nilssen).
Erling is a natural (albeit self-serving) rebel who, within hours of coming to the island, is already seeking a way to escape, while Olav has gradually worked his way towards rank and release by adhering obediently to the rules. Both boys will become men, and to a degree swap roles, in their response to the Governor's wilfully unjust mishandling of a horrific incident on the Island.
"Bastøy", Erling tells Olav, "is nothing but a small rock in the water. You can become whatever you want." And so the tropes of prison-flick oppression merge seamlessly with teen rites of passage in an unusual period film where hard lessons are learned and characters are formed.
The silence imposed on the boys during work and meal times is matched by Holst's own subdued aesthetic, where all sensationalism is kept outside of the frame and even the film's adult 'villains' are humanised rather than demonised, as fellow prisoners, along with their young wards, of a closed system.
If Erling and Olav's final, icy scene together, following so fast upon Erling's claim to be "the king of Bastøy", brings up unwelcome and unhelpful associations with James Cameron's romantic epic Titanic, this is otherwise a deadly serious drama, presided over by a typically dour but also deeply nuanced performance from Skarsgård as a compromised man incapable of doing what he knows is right.
As two young men under his care retreat together into a fantasy whaling saga as a way to escape their insulated, abusive reality, the film becomes a sort of Nordic Sucker Punch, only avant la lettre, strictly for boys, and without any CG action sequences.
And if this dark chapter of Norwegian history was swept beneath the waters long ago, King of Devil's Island dredges it right back up to shame not only a nation, but all those who still today engage in institutional cover-up.
Norwegian period prison flick? I'm game.
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The Dual-Immersion Project at MLL is part of the Virtual Dual-Immersion Project AUSJAL- AJCU Consortium, and uses video-conferencing technologies such as Skype and Elluminate to provide our students* (see bottom) real-time contact with native speakers from mainly Jesuit universities in Latin America. Our students collaborate in the HLRC (see Google calendar for schedule) with their Latin American partners to learn each other's language and culture. Other "language-exchanges.org" (Dickinson College) sessions, e.g. for German students, are also conducted in the HLRC. The program is currently expanding*(see bottom).
Current and past partner universities include:
Ibero-León (León, Guanajato, Mexico)
Ibero-Puebla (Puebla, Mexico)
Ibero-Torreón (Universidad de Cohauila - Municipio de Torreón, Mexico)
PUCE (Quito, Ecuador), Dual-Immersion on PuceTV,
PUJ (Cali, Colombia),
UCA (Managua, Nicaragua),
UNAM - non AUSJAL participant (Mexico City, MX),
URL (Guatemala City, GT),
UTNA (Aguascalientes, MX - non AUSJAL participant).
1. Please watch the official sub-titled 2012 dual-immersion video via the AUSJAL webpage.
2. March 2013 "Ausjal al día" newsletter on Dual-Immersion AUSJAL-AJCU universities (AJCU participants: Marquette, Boston College, Creighton, Holy Cross, San Francisco, Loyola Maryland, Xavier University, Canisius College, Jhon Caroll, Fairfield y Santa Clara University).
3. Read in Spanish Carta de AUSJAL Vol.1 No.33 (2011), four-page article on pages 26-29. Creighton University is the second largest program! (Local PDF file).
4. More details about the entire dual-immersion project in Spanish.
5. Read about the project in English in the journal Connections, February 2010 Vol.10 No.6.
* Spring 2013: 300 Creighton students of Spanish and 11 CU students of German in 17 language classes in 61 Skype/Elluminate sessions, for a total of 1138 individual contacts! French and Italian coming soon.
Fall 2012: 276 Creighton students of Spanish in 13 language classes in 43 Skype/Elluminate sessions, for a total of 884 individual contacts!
Spring 2012: 53 sessions were held with 275 Creighton students from 16 Spanish classes!
Fall 2011: Participation was: 246 students in 12 classes, totaling 40 Skype/Elluminate sessions.
Spring 2011: 56 sessions with 291 Creighton students from 15 Spanish classes, levels 102, 201, 202, 311, 312 and 313 participated.
Fall 2010: 165 CU students participated in many sessions - no specific data available at this time.
Spring 2010: Outside of class volunteer sessions with 25 students talking to URL in Guatemala City.
Spring 2009: The first series of Skype sessions took place in 2009 with UNAM in Mexico City.
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I have many good mmmemories of this past Saturday, one of my better-eating days in some time.
As one of six guest judges of Dishcrawl's first-ever Battledish competition in Eugene, I had the gustatory privilege of sampling special dishes prepared by chefs at six Eugene restaurants — Rye, Belly, The Cannery, Cornucopia, Tokyo Tonkatsu and First National Taphouse — along with creative cocktails imagined by their behind-the-bar counterparts.
After tallying votes in five categories from us judges and other Battledish ticket holders, organizer Rosalie Ruff today announced the winners.
Congratulations to chef Michael Wares of The Cannery, whose Parmesan Crusted Reuben earned him the most votes in the "Most Delicious" category and, consequently, the title King of Battledish.
Other category winners are chef Brendan Mahaney of Belly, who won gold for "Most Creative" with his Basque Piperade; chef Jeff Passerotti of Rye, whose Portuguese Pork Stew is "Most Authentic"; Wares of The Cannery, who also won "Best Modern" for his reuben; and bartender Mel Mikell of Belly, whose Apple of My Rye won "Best Cocktail."
Chefs Jeff Alvarado of Cornucopia and Jason Landis of First National Taphouse, and bartender Morgan Pharis of The Cannery, also placed in various categories.
Here are the full results of Battledish: Eugene.
Joel Gorthy has edited and written for The Register-Guard's quarterly Tastings section since its inception in 2003. With a passion for discovering new taste experiences, here he shares news and insights relating to fine food and drink in Eugene-Springfield, Lane County and beyond. Follow him on Twitter @JGorthyRG.


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Amazon Said to Start Apple Cloud Music Challenger in July
June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. reached agreements with the four major U.S. record companies to start a music service that lets users store songs on a remote server and access them online, people familiar with the matter said.
Amazon plans to start the U.S. service in the first week of July, with Europe availability shortly after, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private.
With the agreements, Amazon's music service will work similarly to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, letting multiple devices access a centrally stored music collection. Amazon, whose Kindle Fire tablet computer sells for $199 -- a lower price than Apple's least expensive iPad -- is seeking to make money by offering higher-margin digital content on the device, such as books, music and movies.
Sally Fouts, a spokeswoman for Seattle-based Amazon, declined to comment. Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony Corp.'s music business, EMI Group Ltd. and billionaire Len Blavatnik's Warner Music Group declined to comment in e-mail statements.
Amazon, the world's biggest Web retailer, gained 1.8 percent to $218.35 at yesterday's close in New York. The stock has climbed 26 percent this year.
The company first offered a cloud music service in March 2011 that circumvented the need for agreements with individual record companies. Legally, the service required users to upload tracks to Amazon's servers, a lengthy and cumbersome process depending on Internet speed. It also had limited playback options.
With the new agreements, customers who buy music through Amazon's music store will be given a free amount of storage, while those who choose to store their entire collections, including tracks purchased elsewhere, will pay an annual fee, the people said.
Amazon's music service will also be available on iPads and iPhones through the Kindle application for Apple devices, the people said.
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The Early Edition | Sep 27, 2013 | 6:10
'There is a fine line between objective suspicion and a hunch'
Sniffer dogs and bag searches--the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled on what grounds police can search your property. We speak to Michael Feder, lawyer for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.


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First Look at Indaba Stylesheets
Here's a look at the design progression of the Indaba platform's Builder app start page from a 2009 wireframe to our latest build of style.css (keep scrolling!). I'm happy to announce that these screen grabs are from a real, live build that will enter alpha testing next week. With luck, we'll be in the field for beta testing in September.
About the visual design…
Our design starts and ends with the users. A typical workspace is messy enough, and our field staff's workspaces are… well, ask any reporter who has filed a story from an Internet cafe full of kids playing StarCraft 2. Kaboom! It's a high distraction environment, to say the least.
I wanted Indaba's interface to feel like sitting down to a blank sheet of paper. Tidy. Clean. Empty.
Styling is used to convey information. If it can't do that, it's removed. No glam "design" for the sake of a designer's ego. If it doesn't help organize information, it's out. No razzle. No fluff.
Each page of the site is structured as a set of collapsible boxes, which allow users to expand only the functions they need — joining a discussion with editors, adding tags to content, or seeing a document's event history — while the rest stays hidden. Note that there's not much alpha test "work" happening yet, so a lot of the status icons are gray. That will change to pretty colored boxes as activity picks up across the different test user accounts.
I think we're about half way there at the final image below. There is much work left to do, so your input is very welcome. If you have suggestions or see something you don't like, please let me know in the comments. If you want to really dig in, talk to me for a test site password.
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Cherry Mobile C8 now available
October 15, 2012 Android, Smartphones
Cherry Mobile does not stop in making affordable phones for Pinoys. Today they launched yet another budget-friendly feature phone for the mass market. The dual SIM, dual standby phone is equipped with a VGA camera, a multimedia player for audio & video, an FM radio and flashlight.


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This week's tip is on using Galaxy to get flanking sequence. See http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9808 for more information.
MutaDATABASE is a project to curate and organize human genomic variation of clinical significance. For references and links visit our blog post http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=8688
A tip of the week on using SNPTips to view your 23andme data. For more information about the tool see http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=7162
Today's Tip of the Week is a quick intro to SIFT, find more information at: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=7098
This week's tip is on PolyPhen, a predictor of nonsynonymous SNP impacts on protein functions. For more information about PolyPhen and SNP functional prediction see the blog post: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=6867
Web Analysis of the Variome. For more information see our blog post: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=4319
For more description and information go to: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=5488 This tip of the week is on Comparative Toxicogenomics Database or CTD and the new tool VennViewer.
Visit our blog for more info on this tip: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=4899 A tip introducing Rgenetics at Galaxy
This 1000 Genomes Project tip can be found http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=4830 , with additional information about the project and some references associated with the project.
For more information, few the blog post at: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=4763 . This tip is the continuation of a genome variation tour. We will look at finding SNPs in LD with our SNP of interest using GVS


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Add to researchWill Self
- Born
- London, England
- Genre
- Short Stories, Non-Fiction, Fiction
- Biography
Will Self was born in London in 1961. He graduated from Oxford University and began writing fiction, working as a cartoonist for the New Statesman and City Limits, a London listings magazine.
Nominated in 1993 as one of Granta magazine's 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2', his fiction includes the short-story collections: The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Grey Area (1994); and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998). Cock and Bull (1992) consists of two novellas, and he is also the author of several novels, including: My Idea of Fun (1993); Great Apes (1997); How the Dead Live (2000); and Dorian (2002), a retelling of Oscar Wilde's classic tale set in late 20th-century Britain.
His non-fiction includes Perfidious Man (2000), described by his publisher as 'an examination of modern masculinity' with photographs by David Gamble, and Sore Sites (2000), a collection of writings about architecture. In addition, he has published collections of journalism, including Junk Mail (1995), and Feeding Frenzy (2001), which includes writing from the period 1995-2000. In 2002 he took part in a 'reality art' project in a one-bedroom flat on the 20th floor of a tower block in Liverpool, writing a short piece of fiction while being watched by members of the public. The event was sponsored by Liverpool Housing Action Trust to mark the passing of high-rise housing in the city. His novel, The Butt (2008), won the 2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
A regular broadcaster on television and radio and contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines, Will Self lives in London. A book of non-fiction, Psychogeography, was published in 2007, and a selected short stories, The Undivided Self, in 2008. His most recent novel is Umbrella (2012), shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In 2012 Will Self was appointed Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel University.
Critical Perspective
'Foie Humain', the first story of Will Self's collection Liver (2008), unsparingly observes the denizens of the Plantation Club in Soho verbally abusing each other, as they steadily abuse their bodies with drink, in 'a perpetual motion of alcoholic fluid like a water feature with a concealed pump'. Amongst them, each with their own nicknames and shared taste for sado-masochism, the most seemingly benevolent is 'The Martian', who accompanies the owner Val to hospital when he collapses, whose 'massively engorged liver' has 'passed mere macrovesicular steatosis into the irredeemably gothic realm of steatonecrosis'. In a lurid concluding twist, the Martian's true identity and purpose is revealed; as is 'the cosmic fatuity of a species that exists … purely so that a few score individuals may be harvested for their cirrhotic livers'.
Self is undoubtedly Britain's leading satirical writer, whose dystopian visions, outrageous scenarios and pungent uses of language combine to hold up a distorting mirror to the self and society. Prolific as both a journalist and fiction writer, he is also prominent as a public intellectual, forcefully broadcasting his views on controversial issues. Recently, for instance, on Radio Four he revisited Dallas for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, commenting acutely on the 'mediatization' of events. Part-American by birth, he is perhaps most akin to American authors such as Norman Mailer and – particularly when the subject is drugs or aberrant psychology – Hunter S. Thompson. One can equally point to his predecessors being Swift, Anthony Burgess, and, as he himself would point out, the late J.G. Ballard. Self's friendship with Ballard is recalled in one of his 'Psychogeography' columns in The Independent, reprinted in Psycho Too (2009). Where they differ is that Self's painfully funny fictions can make us laugh out loud – often against our own best liberal instincts.
Self has quipped that his nationality is 'Londonish', and certainly the city's locations, colloquialisms, and peculiar sub-cultures appear throughout his books. But it's a London bent out of shape for satirical purposes, its duller locales imaginatively transformed, as in How the Dead Live (2000). An even grander example of his transformative satire is the mock Science Fiction scenario of The Book of Dave (2006). The eponymous Dave is a London taxi driver estranged from his marriage and frustrated by bureaucracy, who records a ranting diatribe for his son, full of misanthropic bile. A parallel narrative is set in a future when rising sea levels have changed this landscape into islands; the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ing venerate the taxi driver's message as their sacred religious book. The latter is rendered in the dialect of what the glossary calls 'Arpee English with Some Alternative Mokni Orthographies'.
The Quantity Theory of Insanity in 1991, his first collection of short stories, contain material, and even some characters, that are elaborated in later works. 'The North London Book of the Dead', for example, prefigures How the Dead Live in its deadpan tale of a recently bereaved man who meets his dead mother walking towards Crouch End: 'the more I told people how real the experience had been, the more certain they would become that I was the victim of an outlandishly complex delusionary state'. Such extraordinary states of mind are common to his books, as is the setting of 'Ward 9', a mental institution in which we first sight Dr Zack Busner, the experimental psychiatrist who reappears regularly in Self's fiction, by turns sinister or comical; here he is 'an ageing hippy with grey, collar-length hair'. Whenever a character needs psychiatric 'help', Busner is there. He later becomes a media pundit, and takes on a central role in Umbrella.
Umbrella, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, has a stream-of-consciousness narration, moving between differing people and eras, making it initially difficult to follow. Yet it becomes lucid, and then ever more poignant, as a three-tiered story unfolds over decades, concerning encephalitic patients, coma victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic. The three tiers begin in with Audrey Death (or De'Ath), a young munitions factory worker and feminist, caught up in the homefront of the First World War. We fast-forward to her in 1971; after being comatose for decades, she and others are awakened by Dr Busner's new drug L-DOPA. Now mentally sharp if confused at suddenly being an old woman, her life takes on new meanings The third tier is 2010, with Busner retired and traveling across London to revisit the site of Friern Barnet mental hospital, now re-developed for housing. He contemplates his life work and the encephalitics, who had 'borne the brunt of every successive wave of psychiatric opinion', and his own family's troubled psychology. Self's narrative co-ordination of these strands is remarkable, and serious, examining lives caught up in history.
By contrast, The Butt (2008), is a comical novel inspired by the ban on smoking in public. It depicts the dire consequences of smoking – or rather, for hapless Tom Brodzinski, of giving up smoking. Casually flicking the end of his last cigarette over a hotel balcony, he causes a minor injury to an old man below, setting in train an ever more absurd chain of events, His ruinously expensive brush with the legal system ends with him having to undertake a desperate journey through desert lands with a convicted felon. Brodzinski realises at last that he's 'the butt of this situation'. As well as having an element of topicality in his writing, Self is known for his epic walks of 'psychogeography', writing about them in The Guardian newspaper. These involve journeys that few have made, as when walking from Los Angeles airport to the city or down the crumbling north east coast of England, from Flamborough in Yorkshire to Spurn Head.
Such journeys are given an extravagant fictional gloss in Walking to Hollywood (2010), whose title story satirises celebrity culture but with a psychiatric twist. The narrator's delusion is that everyone he meets is a movie star or famous writer, and that he himself ('Self/ Thewlis') is being played by a well-known English actor in Los Angeles. It's full of characteristic barbed asides and nice jokes: a MacGuffin, for instance, 'works fulltime on the LA Times editing the culture section'. After encountering some of Hollywood's finest, 'Self/Thewlis' meets his old friend Dr Zack Busner in a hotel bar. In an 'afterword', the author remind us that fiction itself is a 'terrain across which characters travel'. The journeys that Will Self makes on our behalf – as much within the mind's terrain - are at times terrifying. Like The Martian, his viewpoint on humanity is detached, able to see through bodies to the corruption within – and yet humorous.
Dr Jules Smith, updated 2013
- 2014
- Shark, Bloomsbury
- 2012
- Umbrella, Bloomsbury
- 2010
- Walking to Hollywood, Bloomsbury
- 2010
- The Undivided Self: Selected Stories , Bloomsbury
- 2010
- The Unbearable Lightness of a Being a Prawn Cracker , Penguin
- 2009
- Psycho Too, Bloomsbury
- 2008
- The Undivided Self: selected short stories, Bloomsbury
- 2008
- The Butt, Bloomsbury
- 2008
- Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, Bloomsbury
- 2007
- Psychogeography, Bloomsbury
- 2006
- The Book of Dave, Viking
- 2004
- Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, Bloomsbury
- 2002
- Dorian, Viking
- 2001
- Feeding Frenzy, Viking
- 2001
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, introduction, Bloomsbury
- 2000
- Sore Sites, Ellipsis
- 2000
- Perfidious Man, with photographs by David Gamble, Viking
- 2000
- How the Dead Live, Bloomsbury
- 1998
- Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Bloomsbury
- 1997
- Great Apes, Bloomsbury
- 1996
- The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, illustrated by Martin Rowson, Bloomsbury
- 1995
- Junk Mail, Bloomsbury
- 1994
- Grey Area, Bloomsbury
- 1993
- My Idea of Fun, Bloomsbury
- 1992
- Cock and Bull, Bloomsbury
- 1991
- The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Bloomsbury
- 2012
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Umbrella, shortlist
- 2008
- Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, The Butt
- 1991
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Author Statement
'I am fascinated by masculinity and gender. I have a very ambiguous sexual personal life, that's why I am so interested in it. I am a very girly person trapped inside a large, threatening male body. The fast cars and loud music and hard drinking in 'Tough, Tough Toys' are like a suit. I'm trying to deconstruct that image of men.' (Will Self quoted in interview with The Big Issue magazine, 20 April 1998)


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People link hands to help community college students
Kathleen Leonard linked hands with the line of about 50 strangers assembled beside her, raised them to the sky and wished for $25 million.
"It's a very ambitious goal," she acknowledged. "But anything's possible if we create it."
The 36-year-old Ventura College student was on Main Street in downtown Ventura Sunday afternoon to recruit passers-by for "Hands Across California." By creating a human chain in cities across the state, student organizers like Leonard were hoping to raise money and attention for community college scholarships.
The event, organized by the Foundation for California Community Colleges, took place Sunday on at least 53 of the state's 112 community college campuses and in the cities nearby. It was intended to link more than 1 million people hand-in-hand in support of an important goal with a fast-approaching deadline.
Organizers say the event is expected to be among the largest fundraising events in higher education. The foundation needs to raise more than $25 million by June 30 to reach its goal of achieving a $100 million scholarship endowment. Interest from the endowment will fund full scholarships for at least 5,000 community college students each year.
The endowment launched in May 2008 with a $25 million grant from The Bernard Osher Foundation. The Osher Foundation pledged another $25 million if the community colleges could raise $50 million by the end of June 2011.
Nearly three years later, the colleges are only halfway toward that goal. With just over two months left to meet the Osher Foundation's challenge, organizers hope "Hands Across California" provides the push that donors need.
"We do have a gap to close," said Jill Scofield, a spokeswoman for the Foundation for California Community Colleges in Sacramento. "I don't think anyone wants to see a missed opportunity when it comes to the students and their needs."
For students like Leonard, it comes at a critical time. The state's community colleges face at least $400 million in cuts next year. Student fees are going up 38 percent, to $36 per unit.
Leonard, a mother of two who recently lost her home because of an upside-down mortgage, says it will take her an extra year to finish her associate degree at Ventura College because of fewer courses and full classes. She plans to transfer to CSU Channel Islands to complete her studies to become an elementary school teacher, with the help of a scholarship.
"I was treading water in the ocean of education and they threw me a lifesaver," she said, adding, "I'll be the first college graduate in my family."
Leonard, who also is the student government president at Ventura College, estimated that approximately 3,500 people linked hands at points on sidewalks stretching from downtown Ventura to just beyond the Ventura College campus on Telegraph Road Sunday. The participants came from Ventura College, Oxnard College and Moorpark College, as well as from the nearby community.
Among them were Patricia Veronica of Oxnard and her 15-year-old daughter, Janyn Amezquita.
"Anything that would help our community colleges is worth it for me," said Veronica, who has a son enrolled at Oxnard College.
Amezquita, who plans to attend community college one day too, said she enjoyed the hand-holding event.
"It's important. And it's a good way of meeting people," she said.
Sunday's event was inspired by the Hands Across America, when an estimated 6.5 million people joined hands across the country to raise money to combat hunger and homelessness 25 years ago.
Donations can be made through the event website, http://www.HandsAcrossCalifornia.org. A text-to-give campaign has also been set up to allow people to donate $10 by texting the word "HANDS" to 27722 from their mobile phones.
— The Associated Press contributed to this article
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Did Motion Gaming Succeed Or Fail In 2011?
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Now that the Kinect is out, exercise games are coming out for it in droves. Ubisoft's Your Shape: Fitness Evolved arrived at launch, and EA Sports Ac Read More
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After all of the hype and hoopla of the PlayStation Move, Microsoft finally gets into the motion control act this week with their new Kinect Sensor. Read More
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All Microsoft-themed articles this week must feature at least one Halo: Reach image With TGS upon us it's time for the companies to begin the show and tell process. Thankfully, Microsoft has just released the full list of games which they'll have available at this week's show. It's quite a hefty dollop of stuff indeed, and gamers should be very pleased with all that's being offered. Hit the jump for the full list. Read More
Analysts with Panoptic Management Consultants believe that Microsoft didn't really move up or down in their value during E3. Rather, they advise investors to hold their stock and suggested that while Kinect's technology "is compelling", the software needs to be improved in order to cement success for the motion control device, which will be arriving in November. In an article on Gamasutra, it was revealed that Panoptic believes Kinect needs more quality software to survive. "The technology is compelling," said Adam H. Kraus, "but it needs more unique quality software to make it a success." Read More
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Ubisoft today announced a few interesting details about their history with Microsoft's new Kinect device. Apparently they've been working with 3D camera technology since 2008 in collaboration with a company called PrimeSense. By pure coincidence, PrimeSense was later acquired by Microsoft to work on Project Natal. Ubi, who already had several projects on the go, were therefore a shoe-in to be an active part of the device's eventual launch as Kinect. Hit the jump for more on how Ubi are already trying to improve on Kinect's technology - and some details of the games they're working on. Read More
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Not to Satisfy - Corona, CA
I have the deep lines around my mouth and was very excited to get the procedure done. The nurse said I would need two syringes, one for each side. I had some swelling for 24hrs and than after it looked great. Than as each day passes I notice the line were coming back. So, I did a follow up a... READ MORE
Perlane Injections Did Wonders - San Francisco
I'm starting to look a lot older than I'd like to look so I made an appointment with Dr. M after reading his fantastic Yelp reviews. When I saw him, he pointed out that what was causing most of my lines was not the nasolabial area, but the tear duct area. After injecting Perlane into the... READ MORE
Lower Cheek - Toronto
My cheek has been disfigured by other surgeon previously. I have done a long research to find the best filler to help me. I have interviewed a numbers of dermatologists, fillers in North America. I decided to go to Dr S in Toronto because of the good feedbacks on him on another online chatroom.... READ MORE
My Very First Facial Filler
I am a "young" looking 41 year old. This year I decided that the deep creases next to my mouth and the slight downturn of my mouth due to aging was bothering me. I went to my doctor for a consult and told him that my girlfriend loved Perlane so he injected some into my smile lines. He... READ MORE
To Fill out Under Eye's Above Cheek - Newburgh
I was nervous considering it was my first time and it was on my face. I did because I wanted to looked eyes?cheeks to looked fuller for my self. READ MORE
Worth It! :) - Toronto
I had Perlane injected in my lips (2 injections at $650.00 Canadian per needle) and to me it wa worth it, but everyones bodies are different and may react differently to this product, depending on where you get it injected. This si my 3rd time doing it, and I usually have to get it done every 6... READ MORE
58 Yrs Old, Perlane in Marionette Lines - Peterborough
After reading reviews on this site I almost cancelled my appointment. However I decided to go and discuss my concerns. Yesterday after our discussion I decided to go ahead. There was NO pain (just a needle prick). This morning I have a small bit of swelling on one side and a very small light... READ MORE
Great Results from Perlane Injections
The fat pads in my upper checks had decreased and I had terrible dark circles under my eyes. I can not begin to describe the improvement after having Perlane injections. I really attribute the success of my treatment to the amazing skill of the provider. After reading many reviews, I realized... READ MORE
Perlane in Cheeks ON TOP of Radiesse
Started doing Radiesse to plump up lost volume in what used to be "really great high cheek bones", something I heard often. At 43, I was seeing volume loss as well as little dimples of fat loss. Radiesse was GREAT...for a few weeks. While the volume was still there, the dimples... READ MORE
Luscious Lips - in Under an Hour!
I've been feeling lately like my lips could use a little "umph", so I scheduled an appointment with my doctor. Her staff told me I needed to stay off aspirin, and all other blood thinners beforehand. I was nervous, as I've never had injections before. They had me clean with... READ MORE
Nasolabial Folds - Give It Some Time and You'll LOVE the Results
I've been getting what my husband calls "female maintenance work" done by my derm for almost 10 years now, starting with Botox on the brow and microderms 4-5/x year and now have added Perlane for the naso-labial folds. The first time I tried Perlane I was initially worried that... READ MORE
Perlane and Restylane...Life Changing...in a Good Way!
I had turned 45 and was looking in the mirror and noticing the folds and creases. I did not like what I saw. My doctor explained that the earlier you treat the folds and wrinkles the more success you can have with minimizing the lines and actually with a regular schedule, keep those lines at bay... READ MORE
Perlane for Lip Enhancement
I had Perlane for my lips 3 days ago to lift and fill out my upper lip, but I also got some in my lower lip. It looks great, except that there is a bruise on my bottom lip which cannot be covered up with lipstick, or makeup. Two people have told me it looks like I have a pen mark on my lip, so... READ MORE
Perlane in Nasolabial Folds - Poor Results
I've just come back from a reputed plastic surgeon to have my nasolabial lines treated. I'm almost 47, but I have a tight, narrow face with hardly any sagging; only these lines that bothered me. I went in very prepared, had read loads on the topic and had a short conversation with... READ MORE
Perlane Injections in to Nasal Folds and Around Mouth
I had Perlane injected into my nasal folds and around my mouth. It was a little uncomfortable but temporary. I had swelling for 1 day and it was completely filled in and flat after that. I had no bruising or irritation, lumpiness ..nothing. I am also a racial mix, with light olive skin.It has... READ MORE
Deep Glabella Lines and Nasolabial Folds! Great Improvement W/Perlane, Restylane and Dysport
I had severely deep glabella lines and deep nasolabial folds. I had 1 syringe of perlyne and 1 syringe of restylane and 1 of Dysport. Great Results,I could not be happier, I cant wait to go back and get more in other areas!i can feel some bumps under my skin, but cannot see them? it has been 3... READ MORE
Hyperpigmentation & Raised Areas on Light Ethnic Skin After Perlane Injections
I experienced raised areas & hyperpigmentation after injections with the filler, Perlane. I did both my nasolabial folds to correct lines and replace volume, along with the corners of my mouth to correct their downturned appearance. Although I went to a very highly experienced READ MORE
Perlane Injections Left Me with a Terrible Red Raised Scar
I had Perlane injections for the first time two weeks ago. It was one of the worst things I have ever, EVER done. A blood vessel was clogged, and my entire face got very red and swollen. I had to take antibiotics and cortisone and am now left with a HORRIBLE red raised scar. DO NOT USE Perlane!! READ MORE
Perlane Doesn't Last on Me Anymore
Treatment is uncomfortable near nose but otherwise ok. Swelling lasts upto 5 days but is worth it if it lasts. The effect is amazing at first but doesnt last on me.I had 2 syringes of perlane in June, in nasiol labial folds and they wore off in 4 weeks! I had 2 more with a different clinic 5... READ MORE
Very Good Experience with Perlane Injections
It was a very good experience. They where very professional. They knew exactually where to inject to get the results I wanted, and did not over do it so I look natural.Will using OTC lotions, like something with retinol in it, affect the longevity of the Perlane. Is there any OTC facial... READ MORE