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Identification of super-infected Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes collected as eggs from the field and partial characterization of the infecting La Crosse viruses
1 Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1692, USA
2 Current address: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver, CO 80246, USA
3 Current address: Midwest Respiratory Virus Program, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
4 La Crosse County Health Department, La Crosse, WI 54601-3228, USA
Virology Journal 2010, 7:76 doi:10.1186/1743-422X-7-76Published: 22 April 2010
La Crosse virus (LACV) is a pathogenic arbovirus that is transovarially transmitted by Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes and overwinters in diapausing eggs. However, previous models predicted transovarial transmission (TOT) to be insufficient to maintain LACV in nature.
To investigate this issue, we reared mosquitoes from field-collected eggs and assayed adults individually for LACV antigen, viral RNA by RT-PCR, and infectious virus. The mosquitoes had three distinct infection phenotypes: 1) super infected (SI+) mosquitoes contained infectious virus, large accumulations of viral antigen and RNA and comprised 17 of 17,825 (0.09%) of assayed mosquitoes, 2) infected mosquitoes (I+) contained no detectable infectious virus, lesser amounts of viral antigen and RNA, and comprised 3.7% of mosquitoes, and 3) non-infected mosquitoes (I-) contained no detectable viral antigen, RNA, or infectious virus and comprised 96.21% of mosquitoes. SI+ mosquitoes were recovered in consecutive years at one field site, suggesting that lineages of TOT stably-infected and geographically isolated Ae. triseriatus exist in nature. Analyses of LACV genomes showed that SI+ isolates are not monophyletic nor phylogenetically distinct and that synonymous substitution rates exceed replacement rates in all genes and isolates. Analysis of singleton versus shared mutations (Fu and Li's F*) revealed that the SI+ LACV M segment, with a large and significant excess of intermediate-frequency alleles, evolves through disruptive selection that maintains SI+ alleles at higher frequencies than the average mutation rate. A QTN in the LACV NSm gene was detected in SI+ mosquitoes, but not in I+ mosquitoes. Four amino acid changes were detected in the LACV NSm gene from SI+ but not I+ mosquitoes from one site, and may condition vector super infection. In contrast to NSm, the NSs sequences of LACV from SI+ and I+ mosquitoes were identical.
SI+ mosquitoes may represent stabilized infections of Ae. triseriatus mosquitoes, which could maintain LACV in nature. A gene-for-gene interaction involving the viral NSm gene and a vector innate immune response gene may condition stabilized infection.


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William Kentridge's Felix in Exile and History of the Main Complaint, both set in the artist's native South Africa, are politically charged critiques of apartheid. Kentridge's work is distinguished by his intense reflections on the nature of public and private memory, the construction of history, personal and collective responsibility and the shifting nature of identity. In these short animated films, the artist draws, erases and redraws dark images in charcoal, documenting each change, frame by frame, on film. The resulting animations appear and disappear, like spirits, leaving the viewer haunted by the precariousness of human existence.
Felix in Exile and History of the Main Complaint feature two characters—Felix Teitlebaum, the romantic artist/observer, and Soho Eckstein, the wealthy mine owner and land developer. Alter egos of one another and of Kentridge, Felix and Soho embody the disparity between individuals and the social and historical forces within which they are situated. Therein lies the struggle.
In Felix in Exile, Felix has been banished to a sparsely furnished hotel room, the walls of which increasingly become covered with drawings. The maker of these images is an African woman, Nandi. Felix remains isolated in his room, obsessed with Nandi's drawings, until the drawings become the bond between them. The film ends with Nandi's tragic assassination and Felix's subsequent realization of his inability to effectively participate in societal transformation. Through suffering and loss, he discovers he is more isolated than he could ever imagine.
History of the Main Complaint finds Soho hospitalized and in a coma, monitored by an array of highly technological diagnostic equipment. His medical condition seems to have been brought about by the collapse of his capitalist venture. The doctor's probing stethoscope serves as a metaphor for delving into Soho's unconscious, the repository of guilty memories. Viewers become party to Soho's memories as he begins to recall them in his dream-like state. He has witnessed beatings and murders, and when his car strikes a shadowy figure, he is jolted out of his coma. Will this be a transforming, redemptory experience, or will Soho fall prey to the mind's preference for avoiding unpleasant truths?
William Kentridge, Untitled, drawing for History of the Main Complaint (video), 1996. Charcoal on paper. Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
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Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D. graduated with a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Washington, and MA and Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School. Dr. Sela-Smith is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, Colorado, and in Washington, State; she is a nationally certified counselor with N.B.C.C. and is a nationally certified clinical hypnotherapist through A.C.H.E..
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Sandy's years of writing experience with her publications, as well as being the primary instructor of Academic Writing 0700-0705 at Saybrook University gives her the experience to contract with students privately to receive guidance in making their practicums, theses, essays, and dissertations meet APA and Saybrook University's writing standards in style, format, and critical thinking.
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
October 7 - November1, 2008 1- Gallery showing of photography in Glenwood Springs, CO.
October 16, 2008 Denver CO, Spirit in the Workplace presentation of Healing your life and the Planet Through Accessing Cell-Level Consciousness.
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
Ph.D. Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. Psychology 2001
MA Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. Psychology 1999
BA University of Washington. Education/Political Sci. & History 1966
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Professional activities and projects include five major arenas: (1)Working with students, especially those at the thesis, essay and dissertation stages of their journey through Saybrook. (2) Psychotherapy and psychotherapy research with cancer patients. (3) Writing for publication, (Currently writing the second book in a trilogy: The Meaning of Three. Book one, The Mask, is completed and expected out in the fall of 2008, Book two, Behind the Mask, will likely be finished this coming winter, and out in the Spring of 2009, and Book three, Under the Mask, I hope will be completed by the end of 2009. (4) Production of CDs for self-healing using deep relaxation and hypnosis methods. (5) Photography, used as a vehicle to help people connect with nature around us, which can lead to connection with and experiencing nature within. I maintain a private psychotherapy practice in Clearwater, Florida, where I am licensed as a mental health counselor, and hold a mental health counselor license in Washington State. I travel to Colorado regularly to write in the peace of the mountains.
Current Publications
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). The Ullman method of dream analysis: Context and content. Dream Network Journal. 19 (1), 36-40, 42.
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). The motel dream. Dream Network Journal. 19(2), 43-46.
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). Gods in the mirror. Dream Network Journal. 19 (3), 15-18
Significant Publications
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). The Ullman method of dream analysis: Context and content. Dream Network Journal. 19 (1), 36-40, 42.
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). The motel dream. Dream Network Journal. 19(2), 43-46
Sela-Smith, S. (2000). Gods in the mirror. Dream Network Journal. 19 (3), 15-18
Important Conference Presentations
March 30, 2003: Institute of Noetic Science, Florida Suncoast quarterly meeting title:
Accessing Cell Level Consciousness.
October 13-14, 2003: University College extension of University of Maine. Title: Accessing Inner Strength in Tumultuous Times. Title: Discovering Psychological Connections to Physical Illness.
November 20, 2004: International Society for the Study of Dissociation: Annual Conference: New Orleans: LA. Title: Beyond Dissociation: Learning to Live from the Authentic
Self. (CEUs offered)
February 10-12,and March 10 -12 2005: Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT: Title: Reducing Stress for Mental Health Professionals. Title: Healing Genetic Patterning. Title: Helping Clients Heal Inner Division. Title: Out of Many…One: An Explanation of Dissociation from the Inside Out. (CEUs offered)
April 23, 2005: Healing Retreats: St. Petersburg Florida: Spiritual Dimensions in Understanding and Healing of the Self (For Women with Breast Cancer)
November, 8-10, 2005: ISSD: Annual Conference in Toronto: 3 presentations Original Dissociation: The Precursor to Dissociation, Mapping: A Tool to Facilitate Integration in a Dissociative Personality, and Beyond Dissociation: Learning to Live from the Authentic Self.
November 14 - 19, 2005: Fourth Pan-Asia conference on Mental Health, Shanghai, China Original Dissociation: The Precursor to Dissociation. (Nov 15) Mapping: A Tool to Facilitate Integration in a Dissociative Personality (Nov 17) Training for Conducting Research In China On Identification of Dissociative Identity Disorder (Nov 18 & 19).
November 8 – 11, 2006: Los Angeles, CA Presentation to the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. (3 presentations)
October 16, 2008: Denver, CO For Spirit in the Workplace. Accessing Cell Level Consciousness for Spirit in the Workplace.
Research Interests
As a graduate student, I developed a research method that became my dissertation Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry (HSSI.) This is a qualitative method of research in which the researcher is the participant of his or her own internal inquiry into the often dark and hidden internal patterns that influence the personal experience of life. This method grew out of the Heuristic Research process as developed by Clark Moustakas in the latter part of the twentieth century when observational and objectively oriented behavioral psychology as science was being challenged by a number of subjective and experiential perspectives. In attempting to implement Moustakas's method, Dr. Sandy Sela-Smith identified the presence of internal resistance to internally focused inquiry, which impacted research outcomes and as a result she clarified the Moustakas Heuristic Research Method with Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry. The central objective of HSSI is self-transformation, and the central foci of the process are the feelings the self-searcher experiences and the meanings attached to those feelings, which includes feelings related to resistance. Once feelings are discovered and resistance to discovery of deeply buried life-patterns is overcome, a pathway to change the patterns opens, which in turn leads to transformation of self and life-experience. When applied therapeutically, the client's self-search is guided by a trained therapist whose purpose is to assist the client-inquirer in becoming aware of feelings, noticing and overcoming resistance to feelings, and continuing the self-search process that can lead to a transformation that positively impacts the client's life and self-experience. When applied in research of others, the principal researcher takes the role of the therapist/guide and the HSSI researcher is the participant/client who is investigating his or her own internal territory, with the help of the principal therapist/guide researcher.
Research Expertise
The dynamic psychotherapy process that I practice, called Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry (HSSI), is a psycho-spiritual process that encourages the researcher to enter the deepest places within to discover the self. This form of research often leads to an encounter with emotional wounds and the meanings attached to wounding. The process is intended to bring self-discovery as well as healing to these internal places. This research method is a bridge between clinical research and psychotherapeutic practice with the researcher as participant and/or with the researcher as therapist, assisting the participant-client in conducting Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry. My area of "expertise" is with persons with life threatening illnesses, assisting them to discover the emotional links to immune system failure and recording the findings in case study format.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
I assist students in discovering what they want to research, especially when they want their work to not only be professionally meaningful, but personally meaningful, as well. I help students discover how to express what they want to say in a way that includes their own voice. I, also, assist students interested in doing Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
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|Field Experiments
|Randomized Controlled Clinical
|Quasi-experimental methods
|Correlational Methods
Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
|Action Research
|Survey Research
|Interview Research
|Observational Research
|Epidemiological Research
|Focus Groups
|Self-Observational Methods
|Narrative Methods
|Feminist Methods
|Content Analysis
|Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy)
|Events paradigm (psychotherapy)
|Archival Research
|Case History Methods
|Appreciative Inquiry
|Multiple Case Depth Research
|Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design
|Longitudinal research
|Cross-sectional research
Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
|Ethnoautobiographical research
|Grounded Theory
|Heuristic Research
Types of Analysis
|Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.)
|Confidence intervals
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|Analysis of Covariance
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|Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis
|Causal Modeling
|Cluster Analysis
|Survival Analysis
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Bjorn Burke, Staff Reporter
One half of the Twin of Twins duo, Patrick 'Curly Lox' Gaynor, yesterday weighed in the mass rally that attracted a huge crowd in Half-Way Tree.
Gaynor spoke to THE STAR yesterday following Sunday's staging of the Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (CAUSE) mass rally.
The duo, who is known for their social commentary, took special care during the interview to note that the duo does not condone violence against any particular group, but they highlighted the importance of the voice of the masses.
"In the same way gay people have a right to express their views that has been over the years forcefully enforced, is the same right that straight people have to express their views and opinions in what is considered in some way a free country," he said.
Gaynor further said about the rally which attracted over 20,000 persons, in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew; "We (Twin of Twins) can applaud a move like this as long as it remains non-violent."
Following comments that Jamaica has moved past draconian approaches of inciting violence against the gay community, Gaynor added: "However, there are a few unscrupulous people in that community who are hell-bent on highlighting Jamaica in such a negative light, and they are not doing any good for their country."
He said that these persons are reaching out to the international community and making it appear as if Jamaicans are slaughtering them.
"The perception has changed long time, but they are trying to keep that old perception alive. We are appealing to the gay community to stop it, because it is not helping Jamaica," he said.
While not affiliated with any of the churches under the umbrella group, Gaynor reiterated that he and his brother, Paul 'Tu-Lox' Gaynor, will gladly participate in any other staging of a similar rally as long as it remains non-violent, and aligned with their objectives and beliefs.
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"Beyond the imagination of George Orwell" and Other Expressions of Congressional Outrage Over NSA Spying
Back in 2010, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) first started warning us that "Americans would be stunned to learn" about how broadly the government interprets its authorities under Patriot Act Section 215. Now that the cat's out of the bag about the NSA collecting millions of Americans phone records, it's big of him not to whip out the old "I told you so" – but really, he told us so.
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Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who also helped to sound the "secret law" alarm, joined Wyden in disputing the efficacy of the surveillance program, saying "[w]e have not seen any evidence showing that the NSA's dragnet collection of Americans' phone records has produced any uniquely valuable intelligence."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a longtime opponent of the Patriot Act and FISA Amendments Act, called "the revelation…an outrageous abuse of power and a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution," as well as "an astounding assault on the Constitution."
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), said that he is "deeply disturbed" by these reports and that "under this secret court order, millions of innocent Americans have been subject to government surveillance."
Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) called the NSA wiretapping of Verizon phones "yet another example of government overreach that forces the question, 'What sort of state are we living in?' There is clearly a glaring difference between what the government is doing and what the American people think they are doing."
Sen. Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) press release stated that "[e]veryone wants to do their part to keep America safe, but that doesn't give the government free reign to ignore civil liberties. I have very serious concerns with law-abiding citizens getting swept up in surveillance that is meant for terrorists. If the government really needs this type of information to keep the country safe, they ought to be able to make their case in an open and transparent courtroom instead of behind closed doors."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the surveillance programs "an unprecedented intrusion into Americans' personal phone records and potentially into their broader online activities," and says that this surveillance "fits into a troubling pattern of disregarding the Bill of Rights."
Even Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who originally voted for the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretapping, wrote to the President that these surveillance programs "raise extremely serious concerns about why such a broad collection is necessary and how this information is used."
In the House, members are equally alarmed.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who voted in favor of the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretapping, calls the surveillance "more than creepy" and "beyond the imagination of George Orwell."
And Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) authored a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 19 members questioning the surveillance program. Speaking of members who support it, he said, "Maybe too much time in D.C. has left them totally oblivious to what's right and wrong."
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) called the programs "secret and blanket form of surveillance on the American public – whether they are suspected of wrongdoing or not."
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) stated that he was "deeply troubled" and that "it is becoming uncomfortably clear that the privacy of the American people is being compromised by intrusive and over-zealous intelligence gathering and law-enforcement activity."
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When even Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), the author of the Patriot Act, writes the Attorney General that he is "extremely disturbed by what appears to be an overbroad interpretation of the [Patriot] Act" and that "these reports are deeply concerning and raise questions about whether our constitutional rights are secure," it's time to rein in the surveillance state and repeal the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act.
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Escape the Hamster Wheel
- How our mindsets help or hinder us
When you're the older brother, growing up with an unspeakably pretty kid sister is a recipe for stress. You find yourself investing in karate lessons, amateur bodybuilding and basic firearms training. You start early with the Prozac.
With a twelve-year age gap between us, I had already moved out of the house when I got the inevitable call from my parents: "Doug, we all knew this day had to come, and it's finally here. Lauren's brought home the first one. We'd like you to come around and meet him, but before you do, a word of warning… He's kind'a surly. He has a bad attitude, and his hygiene is…well…questionable!"
This, of course, was Lauren's very first hamster.
Meeting the new addition
I arrived at the Kruger household to meet the tiny critter, and took a look at him, arranged for display purposes in his cage on the coffee table.
As I leaned over his cage, the hamster saw me, got a fright, and tried to make a break for it. But that was when it got interesting. His instinct was first to jump into his running wheel, and then to try to escape me. When his frantic efforts finally fizzled out, he got out of his wheel and turned around to see if I was still there. I was. Hot on his heels. So he got back into the wheel and ran like crazy all over again.
I watched him repeat this fascinating display so many times that, somewhere in the hypnotic episode, I came up with a new philosophy on life (Some people have epiphanies at monasteries, some on mountain tops – what's wrong with having one in the presence of a brown and white fluff ball named 'Chuckles'?), which I ultimately dubbed, "The Rules of Hamster Thinking."
…And the Rules of Hamster Thinking are:
1. Hamsters make up rule that work against them
2. Hamsters do things the way they've always been done; and
3. Hamsters do what all other hamsters would do.
…In other words, your average hamster is its own worst enemy, simply because of its approach to basic thinking.
Interestingly, Hamster Thinking is not limited to your kid sister's fluffy pet vermin. It's all over the corporate corridors too.
98% of corporate employees are firmly entrenched hamsters
The other two per cent have an odd habit of moving the world forward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
So, what's the difference between them? The reasonable and the unreasonable? The hamster-ridden and the hamster-free?
Grasp that distinction and not only can you begin your own hamster-exorcism ritual, but it might change the way you approach your business.
Can I have a volunteer?
In my keynote address (now titled 'Escape the Hamster Wheel' in honour of the above event), I carry out a little experiment. It tells me a great deal about the way people think and it works like this: First, a member of the audience joins me on stage. Without giving any instructions, I place a piece of string in front of their feet and a tennis ball in their hands. I walk to the other side of the stage where I place a bowl on the ground, and it's at this point that I issue my first instructions: "Your mission is to get the ball in the bowl. Three… two… one… GO!"
Can you guess what the overwhelming majority of people do?
Naturally, they try to throw the ball across the stage and into the bowl. Did I tell them they had to stand behind the line? No. Do you think throwing it will work? The answer is, 'Never.' Even if you lob that sphere with Glenn McGrath-like accuracy, it will simply bounce out, or knock the bowl over. And yet they will try it over and over. Can you hear that little wheel turning?
The trick, of course, is simply to walk over to the bowl and place the ball down gently within it. So why don't people do that? Because most of us are completely preoccupied with 'how' we assume things are supposed to be done, rather than 'what' we want to achieve.
Think end-results first
This particular brand of hamster-thinking is engrained in human beings, simply because we learn by watching others. We copy and paste. And actually, there's nothing wrong with that approach per se. That's how we learned to walk, talk and socialize as infants; by watching our parents and duplicating.
But because workplace goals are ever changing, observed behaviour may not be the most effective teacher. We just start copying one thing and the goal-posts have already moved.
Becoming a hamster-free thinker begins with reversing this approach. Don't fetter your mind with the 'how.' Focus on your end goal. What do you actually want to achieve? …In your life, in your relationships, in your career? …In your next month of sales?
The piece of string in your mind
In the professional world, we all too often fall into this trap.
Perhaps you can relate to this example of inner dialogue: "I'm not even going to try to get through to the CEO, because I'll never get that far." Really? Do you know that for sure? Or are you simply assuming that you will fail before you've even tried? Are you making up a rule – no more binding than a piece of string at your feet - that is working against you?
I have experienced this phenomenon many times myself, in the course of initiating big projects in my life. It's all too easy to waver emotionally in front of a perceived piece of string. And yet, on the occasions where we take the risk, we often surprise ourselves with remarkable results.
The piece of string at the radio station door
I can recount three separate occasions on which I wanted to present for different radio stations. Each time I felt the fear of the perceived piece of string. Each time, I reminded myself of the Rules of Hamster Thinking, and opted to step over the piece of string, walk through the front door of the station, and try. And each time, to my eternal surprise, I got to see the person I needed to see and ended up presenting on that station.
More often than we realise, the string exists only in our minds.
Think 'end results.' You'll be surprised how this little Copernican Revolution jump-starts the creative part of your brain. Crystallize the goal, and your creative mind – diligently applied – can find the means. And the chances are that the means will not be conventional, because the results of convention are almost always 'average.'
But who wants to be average? Escaping from your own hamster wheel begins with overcoming the first rule of hamster thinking: Don't make up rules that work against you.
After all, what's holding you back? …a piece of string?
- Douglas Kruger is a speaker, trainer and author, and 5 x winner of the SA Championships for Public Speaking. See him in action at www.douglaskruger.co.za, or email: email@example.com


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Tom Jones wants to play Glastonbury
'Sex Bomb' singer would "love" to play again
12 February 2009
The 'Sex Bomb' singer, who last played the Somerset event in 1992 has revaled that he'd "love" to return
to Worthy Farm.
Speaking to The London Paper, Jones said: "I'd love to perform there again and if the timing was right, I'd be there. I last appeared at Glastonbury in the early '90s and it was fantastic. Even the weather was good. The sun was shining and I had a ball.
"I remember two guys in the crowd had this big banner up on a pole and it just said, 'Tom fucking Jones'. I thought it would make a great T-shirt."
The Welsh crooner would fit the bill in the traditional Sunday afternoon slot for iconic stars, which has included Leonard Cohen, Shirley Bassey and Brian Wilson in recent years.
Other names rumoured to be performing the UK's Best Major Festival includes Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Blur.
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Cable Tie Mounting Bases: No-Hassle Anchoring for Everyday Cables
Filed under: Cable Ties, Clips and Grommets
I can't believe that it's taken me this long to really take notice of adhesive cable tie mounting bases, but it's finally happened. Driven by desperation to hide the cords that are ruining the view behind a new LCD TV, I've been wracking my brain to come up with the right combination of products for my particular predicament. First I was going to stick a piece of raceway down the back of the TV stand, but I needed cables to enter and exit at different points along the way, so that idea was nixed. Then, I thought that stick-on cord clips would make sense, until I realized that, considering how many cables there are, I'd need to use an awful lot of them. Add to that the fact that they're adhesive-backed, and in the end, I'd just rather not have a whole slew of things glued to the back of my furniture.
And then I came across cable tie bases. I haven't looked at or even thought about them in a long time, but suddenly, they're beginning to look like the perfect solution. One pack of these babies and a few black cable ties, and I'll be ready to rock. I know I said that I was trying to avoid adhesives, but 3 of these (tops) will do the trick, and in the event that I ever decide not to use them anymore, they're so low-profile that they'll be practically invisible. That, and they're super cheap, which will maybe help to offset the… ummmmmmm… flat screen TV purchase.
Here's how they work: cable tie mounting bases are basically little, almost-flat plastic squares, with spaces through which you can thread a cable tie. On the back, there's peel-and-stick adhesive. You just peel off the backing, stick the bases wherever they're needed, and then thread a cable tie through each one. Then just gather a few cords together, cinch them into the cable tie, and the whole bundle is kept in place. Too easy! These may not look too exciting, but they definitely qualify as Good Stuff.
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Victoria Beckham's Personal Dresses & Costumes Up for Grabs
November 20, 2013 6:04 PM
It's all for charity, too. Hundreds of shoes, Dolce & Gabbana dresses, and David's old suits are boxed up and being auctioned off to raise funds for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. The British Red Cross is organizing 'Shop Drop for the Philippines' where pieces of Beckham style will be the show-stoppers.
Unfortunately they will only ship to the United Kingdom. Learn more here: www.redcross.org.uk/shopdrop.
I bet they'd raise more money if they auctioned off David's tighty-whities and shipped internationally.


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It's that time of the year again, pretty colors in the trees and on the ground, it's tights weather again my favorite time of the year. I am a sucker for layering and mixing colors. I took these photos a few weeks ago, I have been pretty busy with life and all, today I had a little extra time to post these photos taken in one of my favorite alleys, I love all the colors and the mood, right after I took these a huge storm came in.
I found this cute dress at Beacons closet in Brooklyn on our last trip to NYC, it's silk on top and wool on the bottom I really like the humor of this dress, a bit little girl and a little chic.
Wearing: Silk and wool drop waist dress, Beacon's closet / vintage blue velvet blazer, thrifted / booties Mango / little gold cross necklace heirloom piece from my grand-mothers first communion.


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Put your thumb and index finger together and feel the fleshy part under your thumb - this is what rare feels like. Now put thumb and middle finger together, this is medium, thumb and ring finger, medium well and thumb and pinky together, well. You can feel how the flesh of your thumb gets more firm
I've started venturing into grilling & instead of cutting into the meat to see if it's done, I found a Meat Temperature Chart that you can use first. I have one of those temp. things that you poke into meat, so that will come in handy! :)http://southernfood.about.com/library/info/blroast.htm
This is a great trick to use during the holidays!Fill a saucepan size pot about half way with water and put it on the stove on high. As the water boils, nestle a metal colander, strainer or steamer basket into the top of the pot. Make sure the water in the pot is not high enough to come into the bottom of the colander. Place the meat you are reheating into the colander - don't overfill it. Continued...
Yesterday, there were four pork steaks in the package for around $8.00. I bought them and took them home. I used Pam in the pan and fried each one until it was brown on each side. Then I put it in a baking dish with some water in the bottom and then baked it at 250 until they were done, several


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#107 Waking from the American Dream #107: Octagon Table Discussion: DepressionSep 5, 2014 - Join Kelly as she and Rick Overton, Dylan Brody, and Chris Bonno find the funny and not so funny in depression, ennui, suicide, America's obsession with growth and progress and laughter. Music by The Paul & the John
#106 Waking from the American Dream #106: Kelly Finds a More Beautiful QuestionMay 23, 2014 - Kelly and Warren Berger's (the author of A More Beautiful Question) discussion about the power of questions will inspire and blow your mind wide open. As we as individuals and a species face an era of increasing uncertainty, the skill of asking powerful questions about our lives, the world and challenges is more important than ever. Listen in as Warren and Kelly delve into the art of inquiry. Music by Alan Stone, the Jacob Jeffries Band, and Lisa Brigantino.
#105 Waking from the American Dream #105: Kelly Gets Carlie & Doni-edMay 18, 2014 - The funny and charming musical comedy duo Carlie & Doni explore their journey through their first years in show biz, and what it's like to balance friendship and creativity as a duo. Kelly wrote an essay too!
#104 Waking from the American Dream #104: Octagon Table Discussion: EnlightenmentMar 16, 2014 - John Fugelsang, Erin Brown, Chris Bonno & Chad Einbinder help Kelly to unpack the idea and path to enlightenment.
#103 Waking from the American Dream #103: Kelly Makes an EffortFeb 27, 2014 - Author, actress, and activist Annabelle Gurwitch joins Kelly to discuss her book, "I SEE YOU MADE AN EFFORT: Compliments, Indignities and Survival Stories From the Edge of 50." They discuss everything from fracking to chin hairs to Darwin to spice cake. Music by Adil Omar and Dan Bern.
#102 Waking from the American Dream #102: Octagon Table Discussion: DestinyFeb 15, 2014 - Kelly is joined by Dylan Brody, Beth Lapides, and Rick Overton in an exploration of the idea of destiny, fate, a conscious universe, free will, choice. As always they go deep while cracking each other up. Kelly then plays an excerpt from her 2009 interview with Sid Caesar, honoring his passing. Music by Tracy Newman.
#101 Waking from the American Dream #101: Kelly Walks Over the DivideJan 27, 2014 - Kelly reads her newest essay, "Deadline," and then welcomes her guest Avi Tuschman, political anthropologist and author of "Our Poltiical Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us where they discuss the evolutionary underpinnings of the Right/Left political divide of humans. Music by Allen Stone.
#100 Waking from the American Dream #100: Kelly Finds Her WordsDec 14, 2013 - Kelly reads her latest essay, "Alone," and then welcomes her guest author, lecturer and world traveler Phil Cousineau. They discuss the purpose of art, how to keep the creative spark alive and the true nature of forgiveness. Music by The Hereafter and Dan Bern.


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Posts Tagged 'Lena Dunham'
"A Reverse Fahrenheit 451," and Other News
February 11, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- Sharon Olds, Lena Dunham, and Jennifer Egan on The Bell Jar.
- Dark horse Antonio Munoz Molina wins the Jerusalem Book Prize.
- Little-known books, blockbuster adaptations: a bittersweet colloquy.
- The romance author Jessica Blair is really an eighty-nine-year-old vet named Bill, who has no problem with his nom de plume.
- In "a reverse Fahrenheit 451," firefighters carry books to safety.
Arthurian Legend, Literary Restaurants
October 10, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Sheila Heti on How Should a Person Be?
June 18, 2012 | by Thessaly La Force
If you've been loving Lena Dunham's Girls, you should most certainly pick up a copy of Sheila Heti's new novel, How Should a Person Be? In it, fictional Sheila struggles to answer the titular question through conversations with her friends (including Margaux, Misha, and Sholem), blowjobs, impulsive trips to Atlantic City and ... a whole lot more. The novel is a blend of the real and the imaginary—and somehow, in the process of recording her life, real Sheila blends into fictional Sheila, creating a work of metafiction that is playful, funny, wretched, and absolutely true. Sheila and I Gchatted not long ago. Sheila is an impressive writer (see her full bio here) as well as the interviews editor at The Believer. Below is an edited version of our conversation.
Let's talk about your process. How did you take your conversations from your life and weave it into fiction?
I don't know. I did lots of different things. But the conversations were not meant for a book. I was just taping friends. I didn't have a plan for where I was going.
Did you think you were writing your play?
I wasn't sure. I'd spent the previous five years working on Ticknor, and I wanted to sort of shake that off me. So all the transcribing I was doing was kind of like drinking a glass of water—it was refreshing, like a palate cleanser—a way of getting out of my imagination. Taping and transcribing was part of looking around to see what things were really like in my environment. I'd been completely in my room, in my head, not looking at anything.
That reminds me of something Tilda Swinton once said about filmmaking—it's a social way of making art. What do you think happens when you're working like this?
Well, the writing becomes more like life in that you don't know where you're going to end up, and you don't know what's going to end up being important. It's like how in life you can meet somebody and not think much of them, then a few years later you're married and in love, but the person you were really drawn to and thought, This is it!—you forget about them six months later. When I began transcribing, I was certain that I wanted to write a book with no people in it, about the workings of a supermarket.
That sounds so different than the book you ended up writing!
Good-bye Doris Betts, Remembering Guy Davenport
April 26, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Corrections and Test Questions: Happy Monday
April 23, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Staff Picks: Cecil Beaton in the City, 'Threats'
March 9, 2012 | by The Paris Review
If you get the chance, check out "Cecil Beaton: The New York Years," which has extended its run at the Museum of the City of New York. It's a record of the artist, designer, photographer, and general man-about-town's relationship with the city in pictures and words, and both the duration of Beaton's career and the scope of his creativity are something to behold. —Sadie Stein
On the recommendation of our art editor, Charlotte Strick, I've started reading Amelia Gray's debut novel, Threats—the nifty cover of which Charlotte designed, so perhaps she's biased. But so far, it's with good cause: the narrative is subversive and impressionistic, evidentiary and eccentric. It reminds me occasionally of Grace Krilanovich's The Orange Eats Creeps, another deeply imaginative book and one that, in the spirit of this post, I'd wholly recommend. —Nicole Rudick
It is, as Andrew Butterfield says in The New York Review of Books, a show "of staggering beauty and revelatory importance" and "a landmark exhibition," and it is also your last chance to see it this week. I spent last Sunday strolling through the "The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I can't imagine a more colorful or vibrant way to spend the weekend. —Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn
I recently discovered Literature Map, an addicting bit of artificial intelligence that plots writers by similarity. Watch your favorite authors drift about in a blue void like awkward, disembodied party-goers! A Marauder's Map for the literary. (Also good for finding new reads.) —Allison Bulger
I visited the Whitney Biennial last week and caught Sarah Michelson's disciplined performance of "Devotion Study #1—The American Dancer," a piece about movement, repetition, and the relationships formed in dance. Michelson's residency ends March 11 and it's a spectacle not to be missed. —Elizabeth Nelson
A screener of Lena Dunham's Girls made its way around the office a few weeks ago. It contained only three episodes, but I couldn't get enough. —D.F.M.


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June 2014
June 25 2014
HABs Bill Finally Passes Congress!
As part of an enduring bipartisan effort and after years of advocacy by the environmental community, Congress passed the Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) and Hypoxia Research Control Amendment Act of 2014. This bill directs NOAA to research and devise a response plan to the potentially toxic blooms.
June 24 2014
Surfrider's Paul Herzog in Slow The Flow's Film #2: Lawn Be Gone
The 1st film gave an intro to why polluted runoff is bad. Now get started with removing your turf grass through sheet mulching - featuring Surfrider Foundation's Ocean Friendly Gardens Program Coordinator!
June 18 2014
John Kerry leads bold actions to protect our ocean
Ocean Ecosystems Marine Protected Areas
This week Secretary of State John Kerry convened the State Department's first "Our Ocean" conference to focus on domestic and international ocean protection issues that took bold action right from the start.
June 17 2014
Federal Government Moves to Develop 5 Year Leasing Plan for Offshore Drilling
Ocean Ecosystems Marine Spatial Planning Ocean Energy
The Obama Administration is beginning development of an offshore oil and gas leasing plan for 2017 - 2022. A public comment period is now open until August 15th.
June 13 2014
Wave Protection: More than meets the eye
When thinking about protecting a surf spot, it is easy to focus right on the wave itself but protecting a surf spot is a lot more than that.
June 12 2014
Congress Passes Bill on Beach and Water Projects
Coastal Preservation Beach Dredge & Fill Shoreline Armoring Ocean Ecosystems Surf Protection
Congress has passed an updated Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) which authorizes coastal restoration and engineering projects. Surfrider chapters worked hard to improve the final version of the bill.
June 11 2014
Right To Use Climate Appropriate Plants Closer To Becoming Law
A bill to protect the right of a homeowner to plant climate-appropriate landscaping just got a step closer to the governor's desk. Surfrider initiated a sign-on letter, signed by 10 enviro non-profits, in support of the bill.
June 10 2014
1st of 7 Films Released to Slow & Prevent Runoff
Know Your H20 Low Impact Development Ocean Friendly Gardens Basic Class Water Quality
A California state agency is launching 7 short films on how to prevent runoff from landscapes and hard surfaces. The objective is essentially Ocean Friendly Gardens!
June 09 2014
Message in a Plastic Bottle
This spring, Ken Campbell, hailing from the South Sound Surfrider Chapter, undertook a 150-mile journey around the Puget Sound to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the ocean. His entire journey was made aboard a kayak he crafted by hand from discarded single-use plastic bottles.
June 03 2014
BWTF 2013 Annual Report
Blue Water Task Force Water Quality
Surfrider is pleased to release the 2013 Blue Water Task Force Annual Report. The Blue Water Task Force is our volunteer-run water testing program that Chapters are implementing to protect their local waves, beaches and coastal ecosystems.
June 03 2014
Port Orford BWTF: Engaging the community around the Red Rocks Marine Reserve
Blue Water Task Force Partnerships Youth Water Quality
The Port Orford BWTF in Oregon is a collaborative effort between the Curry County Surfrider Chapter, the Redfish Rocks Community Team the local School District, providing citizen-science opportunities in and around the Red Rocks Marine Reserve.
June 03 2014
Blue Water Task Force on Eastern Long Island, New York
Blue Water Task Force Partnerships Water Quality
During the summer of 2013, the Eastern Long Island Chapter began water quality testing at some of the most popular swimming and surfing beaches on Long Island, extending the BWTF's presence on the East Coast. The Chapter is using this new water testing program to raise public awareness of local…
June 03 2014
San Luis Obispo BWTF: Building capacity to investigate local pollution problems
Blue Water Task Force Partnerships Source Identification Water Quality
The San Luis Obispo SLO BWTF began 2013 as a small water testing program with two volunteers who conducted weekly sampling at two sites. Throughout the year, the Chapter's BWTF Coordinator built a team of dedicated water samplers and testers that are out monitoring eleven sites on a weekly basis.
June 02 2014
Hydromodification - What is It?
Know Your H20 Low Impact Development Water Quality
Hydromodification is the alteration of the natural flow of water through a landscape, and often takes the form of channel modification or channelization. It is one of the leading sources of impairment in streams, lakes, estuaries, aquifers, and other water bodies in the United States.
June 01 2014
Texas Lawmaker Leads Attack on our National Ocean Policy
Ocean Ecosystems Marine Spatial Planning
Led by Rep. Bill Flores, the U.S. House has passed an amendment to defund the National Ocean Policy. The measure will now be considered by the Senate. Please contact your federal reps to tell them you support our National Ocean Policy


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The urgent recommendation from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board comes on the heals of four incidents in the past four months, three at the Texas City refinery and one at BP's refinery in Alvin. The board says the company should create an outside panel to look into the company's safety measures to determine if the recent incidents are part of a systemic problem.
The CSB's Carolyn Merritt says the panel should be similar to one used by NASA to investigate the Columbia tragedy in 2003, with outside experts who have no connection to either the CSB or BP. She says the message is clear that the company needs to quickly examine its safety culture.
BP's Ronnie Chappell says the company has accepted the recommendation and has already started the process of forming in independent panel to look at all of BP's refineries in North America. "This is a recommendation that we welcome. It is an approach that is consistent with how BP investigates incidents and it's also an approach that BP has used when, for example, undertaking the large-scale developments in sensitive areas," says Chappell.
He says the make-up of the panel will be consistant with the CSB's recommendations.
The safety review could take about a year and will be paid for by BP, although the CSB will monitor its progress.


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Beijing Air Pollution Reaches Dangerous Level
Beijing residents wearing the mask ride amid fog during severe... News PhotoBeijing,China - East Asia,Civilian,Environmental Damage,Environmental Issues,Fog,Horizontal,Pollution,Riding,SeriousPhotographer Feng LiCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesBEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 29: Beijing residents wearing the mask ride amid fog during severe pollution on January 29, 2013 in Beijing, China. The 4th dense fog envelops Beijing with pollution at hazardous levels in January. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Shares of the following companies are among those making notable moves on the U.S. stock market Thursday.
Energen Corp. EGN, +3.26% raised its outlook for 2008 and 2009 because of higher commodity prices. The company, which runs an oil and gas exploration and production unit, said it sees a 2008 outlook of $4.30 to $4.70 a share and a 2009 outlook of $5.15 to $5.55 a share. Analysts estimate 2008 earnings of $4.63 a share, and 2009 earnings of $5 a share.
AutoZone AZO, +0.88% said its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of an additional $500 million of stock, taking its current unused repurchase authorization to $608 million. The retailer, which sells car and truck parts and accessories, added that as part of its evaluation of its capital structure, it's decided to increase its leverage, which will help it continue to return excess capital to shareholders.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, +3.50% said its fiscal first-quarter profit fell to $76.8 million, or 30 cents a share, from $104.6 million, or 38 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose to $1.65 billion from $1.55 billion last year. Analysts had estimated a quarterly profit of 27 cents a share on revenue of $1.62 billion.
Accenture ACN, +2.24% said late Thursday that fiscal third-quarter net income came in at $469.1 million, up 36% from a year earlier when the consulting and outsourcing firm made $345.4 million. Earnings per share came in at a record 74 cents, also up 36% from a year ago. The company raised its outlook for earnings per share for the full fiscal year 2008 to a range of $2.63 to $2.65 from a previous estimate of $2.55 to $2.60 a share.
Anheuser-Busch BUD, +0.64% rejected InBev's unsolicited $46.35 billion offer Thursday, potentially setting the stage for a hostile takeover battle. Anheuser is likely to argue that InBev's offer undervalues the maker of Budweiser and that it will present its own strategic plan which could include sale of non-core assets such as its theme parks, according to the newspaper. However, InBev is not expected to retreat without a fight, the Journal said. See full story.
Ball Corp. BLL, +1.00% said Thursday that it will close its Brampton, Ontario, plastic packaging plant by the end of the third quarter. As a result, the Broomfield, Colo., container maker expects to take an after-tax charge of about $5 million. About 90 workers at the plant will be affected, the company said. Shares of Ball closed Wednesday at $49.66.
Brunswick Corp. BC, +2.63% said Thursday that due to the current downturn in the U.S. marine market, it will cut its fixed-cost structure by $300 million versus 2007 spending levels. "Retail unit sales of power boats in the United States have been in decline since late 2005; however, the rate of decline has been accelerating," said CEO Dustan McCoy in a statement. The company said it would be reducing its work force by 1,000. Further work force reductions of approximately 1,000 hourly and 700 salaried employees across the company's marine business units and staff functions are contemplated. these actions are estimated to result in restructuring charges in the range of $200 million to $220 million pretax. Brunswick shares rose 3% Wednesday to $12.05.
Caterpillar Inc. CAT, +5.30% said it will invest $200 million over four years to increase its manufacturing capacity in India. The company said the move is part of its strategic plan to increase its manufacturing footprint in the Asia-Pacific region.
Citigroup C, +2.57% shares lost 6.1% as the company was added to the conviction sell list at Goldman Sachs, which cut its rating on U.S. brokers to neutral from attractive. Goldman said that while it still believes the market is putting too much weight on the possibility that another investment bank may fail, it is "hard pressed" to find a catalyst to move the group significantly higher over the next few months as fundamentals continue to deteriorate. It recommends a trade of shorting Citi while going long Morgan Stanley MS, +2.74% It expects write-downs of $9 billion for Citi in the second quarter and $4.2 billion in the second quarter for Merrill Lynch MER, +0.57%
CKE Restaurants CKR, -4.76% reported its first-quarter net income rose to $16.6 million, or 31 cents a share, from $15.4 million, or 23 cents a share, a year earlier. The company attributed the increase in earnings primarily to its share repurchase program, which reduced the number of outstanding shares. Revenue declined to $466.2 million from $481.8 million a year ago. Analysts had expected earnings of 27 cents a share on revenue of $464.5 million.
ConAgra Foods CAG, +1.27% said fourth-quarter net income rose 4.8% to $201.3 million, or 41 cents a share, from $192 million, or 39 cents a share, in the year-ago period. The latest quarter includes charges of 3 cents a share. Income from continuing operations rose to 18 cents a share from 13 cents a share. Revenue climbed nearly 16% to $3.1 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet forecast earnings of 34 cents a share and revenue of $3.25 billion, on average. The Omaha, Neb. food giant expects earnings from continuing operations, excluding items impacting comparability, to be in the range of $1.56-$1.59 in fiscal 2009.
Discover Financial Services DFS, +4.56% generated 12% growth in second-quarter profit but raised its cushion for loan losses as a result of ongoing turbulence in credit markets, financial results showed Thursday. See full story.
Duke Energy Corp. DUK, +1.56% on Thursday said it would pay about $240 million to buy Catamount Energy, a developer of wind projects in the U.S. and the U.K. The Charlotte, N.C. electric power producer purchased the company from private equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings LLC to "significantly" increase its wind holdings. Catamount has approximately 300 megawatts of renewable energy in operation, including its interests in the Sweetwater project in Nolan County, Texas, which is one of the largest wind projects in the world. Catamount also has approximately 1,750 megawatts of development interests in several states and the U.K.
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. FLE, +0.03% a maker of pre-fabricated housing and recreational vehicles, said it swung to a fourth-quarter profit of $18.9 million, or 26 cents a share, compared to a loss of $39.2 million, or 61 cents a share, posted in the year-earlier quarter. The results in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 were boosted by $24.1 million of gains from real estate sales. Sales fell 26% to $363.5 million. For fiscal 2009 the company said it expects sales to remain soft in the manufactured housing business and very challenging in recreational vehicles until fuel prices and home values stabilize.


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CINCINNATI (MarketWatch) — The major U.S. benchmarks continue to challenge round-number resistance.
The specific levels rest at Dow 16,000, Nasdaq 4,000 and the S&P 1,800 mark, as detailed last week. To this point, selling pressure remains muted, and the longer-term technical trends point firmly higher.
Before detailing the U.S. markets' wider view, the S&P 500's hourly chart highlights the past two weeks.
As illustrated, the S&P has topped just shy of its technical target — S&P 1,804 — detailed in Monday's review.
Looking ahead, the S&P 1,800-to1,804 area remains a notable technical hurdle, while first support rests at the October peak of 1,775.
Meanwhile, the Dow industrials' near-term backdrop is similar.
In its case, the blue-chip benchmark topped Monday at 16,030, and has pulled in modestly from round-number resistance — the 16,000 mark.
On further weakness, first support rests at its breakout point, just under Dow 15,800.
And the Nasdaq Composite has topped just shy of the 4,000 mark.
Consider that Monday's peak held at 3,995, and the index has drawn sellers in this area.
Widening the view to six months adds perspective.
On this wider view, the Nasdaq's primary uptrend is intact. The 50-day moving average has marked a useful 2013 trending indicator, and it currently rests at 3,845.
To the extent that the 50-day holds, the downside from current levels is approximately 2.5%. More plainly, the Nasdaq's current backdrop is bullish when viewed in isolation.
Moving to the Dow, the blue-chip benchmark has reached its latest round-number technical test.
As detailed previously, recent strength comes from a bullish "V"-shaped reversal, and its breakout point now marks notable support.
And the S&P 500 Index has also reached a round-number technical test.
In its case, the 1,800-to-1,804 area marks resistance, and the S&P has topped this week at 1,802.
Conversely, notable support now rests at its breakout point — S&P 1,775 — and the first pullback to this area would be expected to draw buyers.
The bigger picture
As detailed last week, each major U.S. benchmark is challenging round-number resistance.
Starting with the Nasdaq, its round number technical test rests at the 4,000 mark.
The index has thus far topped at 3,995, and the immediate selling pressure has been muted.
Moving to the Dow, the 16,000 mark represents its latest technical test.
The blue-chip benchmark briefly ventured higher in Monday's action, before pulling in from all-time highs.


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Light-Matter Interactions in Graphene-Based HeterojunctionsWhen: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Where: DA 114
Speaker: Fangze Liu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Graphene, a single layer carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattice , has been the most attractive material over the past decade. Its unique mechanical and electronic properties have lead to the discovery of new physics and many promising applications. For instance, research on light matter interaction in graphene-based heterojunctions has revealed a new route to design photoactive devices. In this talk, I will present my work on graphene synthesis and graphene-semiconductor heterojunctions, especially their application for optoelectronic devices.


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Lupton: As you look at the next group of [five] packages, you will see similar patterns: uppercase letters with decorative details, vivid illustrations, and strong red/yellow/blue color scheme, applied to vivid illustrations of fish, fisherman, and olives. Many of the designs have a lot of detail, and yet they have a strong sense of focus around a central image and central product name.
Fanning: It's a whimsical and cartoonish fish that looks more like a goldfish than a tuna. The inkjet-printed production code detracts from the art, but I do like the simple wave and ocean element.


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The Brand Strategy Toolkit
Great brands can happen by accident, but long term success requires a plan. Build your plan with our new e-book, "The Brand Strategy Toolkit."
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Customer insights make it possible to build a brand people will love, not just buy. Learn how to discern brand building insights.
Many decisions are motivated by how customers want to feel, not just what they think. Learn about using laddering research to create powerful positionings.
Do you know the difference between a brand identity, brand personality, brand image, and brand positioning? Help put an end brand babble with these definitions.
Which is better? A brand that's relevant or a brand that's preferred? Learn why brand relevance trumps preference.
Have you have seen an ad for Angie's List? Most likely the answer is yes. Through aggressive media investments and a strong focus on delivering its core services, Angie's List has accomplished a small miracle, acquiring over 3 million paid households while driving high driving high renewal rates. Conveying the Angie's List value proposition to consumers who expect online services to be free can be a challenge.
In 2013, Angie's List asked us to help them better understand their brand awareness and refine their message to sustain and improve their enviable customer acquisition and retention rates. Through quantitative and qualitative research among current members and prospects, we found Angie's List enjoys unparalleled recognition as a paid review site for homeowners, but lacks depth of brand understanding.
We identified key message "pathways" and recommended focusing on those that best reflect what members find most compelling and also resonate with prospects. The pathways link brand attributes to higher-level emotional values like peace of mind and confidence. New advertising was developed and fine-tuned with customer input prior to the August debut. The new spots provide homeowners with a better understanding of how Angie's List can make their lives easier and why it's worth the money to join.
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In early 2013, Healthy Pet determined to enter the fast growing natural fiber cat litter category in the U.S. In June 2014, they introduced ökocat Natural Cat Litter (German for 'eco-cat'), a line of super-absorbent, wood-based cat litter products that are simply the cat's meow! This speed-defying marketing feat was accomplished through close collaboration between the Healthy Pet brand team, their design and advertising teams and Brand Amplitude.
Working together, we identified and leveraged consumer insights each step of the way from sizing the opportunity, to identifying the target and determining the right configuration of features to positioning. We also helped determine how many SKU's made up the optimal line what those items should be.
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java.net: Why It's Good if You're Not Noticing Much Change
There is some understandable confusion over the changes that have taken place on the java.net site starting this past weekend. The changes consist primarily of switching significant portions of the underlying infrastructure from a platform that was custom built by O'Reilly quite a few years ago, to a much more modern, modular, widely used platform. Stage One, which got underway this past Friday, is to make the platform switch and successfully migrate more than six years of java.net content from the old O'Reilly platform to the new infrastructure.
It's a big undertaking, that required lots of developer time (building migration scripts to convert data from the O'Reilly database structures into the structures in the new database, customizing the user interface in the new CMS to "be" the java.net we've had previously, etc.). If you're not noticing many differences between your java.net circa this week compared with your java.net circa last week, then the migration and transition has largely succeeded.
So, then, it's proper for you to ask: "So, what's in it for me? Why are you making such a big thing out of this, when nothing's changed for me?"
Well, first, I can assure you that we didn't do all this work just to entertain ourselves, and provide us with lots of overtime hours for months on end! We are doing this, indeed, for the java.net community. That's the only reason it's happening.
The entire point of this infrastructure change is to facilitate changes that will make java.net more useful for the community. As we all know, a big problem with a large custom built software system is that a large developer team is needed to maintain and update it. As I said recently, O'Reilly Media is not a software engineering firm. We developed a CMS platform that met a need starting six years ago. Would any of us expect that platform, which hasn't changed all that much over the years, to be ideal for java.net's needs today? I certainly wouldn't.
So, the choice was to either continue with an old platform that cannot be readily updated, or migrate to a new, modern platform. The latter option was chosen by the java.net managing team (which, by the way, does not include me -- though I completely agree with their decision).
The chosen method for migrating to the new platform is exactly the one I would have chosen, had I been in charge of the effort: first, move to the new platform and migrate all the content from the old servers, keeping the site as much intact as possible. Don't lose data, don't lose functionality. In a few spots (communities, for example), some new features were put into place during the initial transition; but for the most part, the objective was: move to the new platform and migrate the old content without breaking the site.
So, now we've basically accomplished that (though we're still working on multiple outstanding issues). There are new, faster servers now, with additional hardware still in the near-term pipeline. This, combined with tuning of the new infrastructure instantiation, should ultimately lead to much better site performance. Once we and the more active members of the java.net community are satisfied that the site is stable and usable, we'll be able to move ahead with enhancements.
Speaking of which: now that java.net is hosted on a much more readily adaptable platform, are there specific changes/improvements that you'd like to see? Let me know. Many things that were not possible a week ago (because they would have required an inordinate, budget-breaking software engineering effort) are now possibilities that can realistically be considered for java.net's future.
In Java Today, Peter Varhol announces that TheServerSide Java Symposium Call for Papers is Open:
TheServerSide Java Symposium (TSSJS), a community event focusing on current and emerging technologies in the Enterprise Java space, has opened its call for presentations for TSSJS Vegas 2010. TSSJS Vegas takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on Wednesday-Friday, March 17-19, 2010.
TSSJS's mission is to advance the Enterprise Java platform, propagate industry-wide best practices, and provide a forum for the Java community to engage in forward-thinking discussions...
Java Champion Alan Williamson provides analysis of some significant news in "Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Is Announced":
Amazon is again moving the cloud world forward a number of notches. Just as soon as the competition catches up, they hit the TurboButton and shoot forward leaving the rest of them in their dust. Today they have announced one of the biggest features to date, I believe, of their AWS offering. The ability to run a virtual private cloud within their public cloud offering...
Danny Coward looks "Under the hood with Garbage First" in his latest post:
There's an interesting article over at
Dr Dobbs about the new Garbage
First collector, scheduled for prime time
in JDK 7, and currently available to try out as an optional
collector in the Java SE 6 update releases. Published experiences
with this new memory management technique for Java are rare, though some
have had good results.
In today's Weblogs, Kumar Jayanti talks about Configuring Non-JKS KeyStore with GlassFish V3: "The Java KeyStore API supports multiple keystore formats which include JKS( the default Java KeyStore), PKCS12, PKCS11 etc. By default when GlassFish V3 is installed the default Keystore Type is JKS and the server keystore (keystore.jks) is located in the domain config directory. With latest GlassFish V3 builds it should be possible to define a different KeyStore Type such as PKCS11 or..."
Jean-Francois Arcand provides Tricks and Tips with Comet part 1: The Browser difference: "Writing Comet application is more and more simple, thanks to framework like LIft and Atmosphere. On the Client side, the difference between Safari, Opera, Firefox, IE and Chrome can make your application completely unresponsive or broken. Of course, there is some tricks to make it work. First, if you are new to Comet, I recommend you take a look at this introduction. For this serie, I will use my..."
And Fabrizio Giudici is offering instruction on Mercurial Best Practices: "I've prepared a document that describes how to work with my projects and Mercurial. It is available here. While it is not meant as a replacement for Mercurial tutorials, it has been written also for Mercurial newbies. Comments welcome - also here (so I can see how comments work with the new Java.Net platform ;-)."
In the Forums,
mobility has a ComboBox Issue: "HI. am new to LWUIT. Using 1.2. My combobox doest seem to be rendering correctly. I have 2 items and is vertical. But the i can only see one item when i click on the combobox. the gap between two items seems to be more than..."
m_santh has questions regarding the Network interface on OCAP: "Hi, I am new to writing OCAP applications. I am currently trying to understand the specs. Wanted to check if I have a server running on my Windows PC, can I write an Tru2way applications which can talk to server on PC. From my initial study..."
benus_ying asks how to connect to a private RDV?: "Hi all. I have come across a problem. the scenario is that there are a public rdv in internet and i want to create a private rdv in my private subnet. this private rdv is for a sub peer group and communicated with the public rdv. then. i want a..."
In the current Spotlight, Danny Coward invites us to participate in a Deep Dive on JDK 7: "The Janitor joined Ed Ort for a Deep Dive on JDK 7, check it out here. Really given how much is going into JDK 7, its perhaps more of a flyover and swoop, but, if you need to catch up with the plan, take a look."
The next java.net Poll will be posted soon, once the dust from the java.net infrastructure transition has settled.
Our Feature Articles include Jeff Friesen's article Introducing Custom Paints to JavaFX, which shows how you can leverage undocumented JavaFX capabilities to support custom paints in JavaFX Version 1.2. We're also featuring Biswajit Sarkar's Using the Payment API for Microcredit and Other Applications, which describes how to apply the Payment API (JSR 229) in JavaME applications.
The latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 85: Migrating Your Midlets to JavaFX Mobile Technology: "Highlights from the JavaOne session TS-4506 with hints & tips on migrating your Java ME applications to JavaFX Mobile."
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What's going on here!?
Matthew Cerrone, Lead WriterThere is clearly a rush going on around baseball to close out some negotiations before next week's Winter Meetings.
"This also usually indicates that GMs see the writing on the wall," a former league executive told me late this afternoon. "They probably have a sense that certain players are more likely to sign with certain teams than others, so they're scrambling to lock down trades and signings before it's too late."
It's looking like the trade market is about to dry up, another league source explained, which would suggest we may soon see a crop of overpaid, big-ticket free agent signings during the next few days. Then, teams will regroup at the Winter Meetings and figure out how to play out the rest of the winter.
The way I understand it, in a perfect world, Sandy Alderson would like to either sign a free-agent outfielder and trade for a middle infielder, or sign the infielder and trade for an outfielder. He reportedly still has the money and trade chips available to do this, so I hope this is still the goal. I don't know if either of these moves are possible any more, but it certainly seems like his options may be dwindling by the looks of today's news cycle…


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Berekum Chelsea winger Asante keen on Ghana league top award
Berekum Chelsea wing-wizard Solomon Asante has revealed his dreams to finish the season as best player of the Ghana league.
The 22-year-old pocket-size midfielder has claimed the man-of-the-match award twice in three league appearances for Chelsea.
He was rated the best player on the pitch in Chelsea's 2-0 win over Heart of Lions at the Golden City Park and also flourished against SC Medeama at the Tarkwa T&A Park.
Despite the Blues suffering a 1-0 reverse at Medeama, the Black Stars winger's dexterous moves and artistry on the flanks earned him the man-of-the-match award.
The former ASFA Yennenga playmaker says he has fixed his sight firmly on claiming the most valuable player award of the season.
"I try to distinguish myself in every game I play because I want to finish the season as the best player of the season," he told Happy FM's Joe Debrah.