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- Records show the Walker branch of President George W. Bush's family, which settled in central Illinois, included slave owners. – Features – History Talk – Illinois TimesThx RD. " Add President George Walker Bush to the list of top-tier U.S. politicians whose ancestors include slaveholders. U.S. Census records for 1790 to 1830 testify to the slaveholding past of some early Walker-family members."
- Thx Dawn. "Actually, I don't think we're so different. When I hear his life story and read his writings, despite what must be paranoid schizophrenic delusions, I begin to identify with the tragic figure of Seung-Hui Cho."
- Thx berrybrowne. "Sen. Barack Obama…lamenting that many of his generation are "disenfranchising" themselves because they don't vote, taking rappers to task for their language, and decrying "anti-intellectualism" in the black community"
- "The violent computer game, along with the discovery of swords in the boy's room, and other undisclosed information, led to the mandatory removal and transfer of the student to M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center. Oh, and guess what? The student is Asi
- Hat tip to The Coup magazine blog. "Men in Guinea's capital have begun attacking women who they accuse of doing the popular buttock-swinging Wolosso dance from Ivory Coast."
- "ultimately, Mrs. JV and Those Two Asian Girls, it is women like you who give women like me a bad name. You facilitate and excuse anti-Asian racism and anti-female sexism…As an Asian American, you embarass me. As a woman, you embarass me."
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Taalam Acey: There's a market for ni$$as
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
What do you think of this spoken word piece? It's an excerpt from the documentary What Black Men Think.
I love so many of the points he makes in this video, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that it's only white people who are supporting these images in hip hop. Blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans — all of us, really, play a role. As Saul Williams pointed out, even Oprah has been known to boogie down to some 50 Cent:
Like the rest of the world, I watched footage on AOL of you dancing mindlessly to 50 Cent on your fiftieth birthday as he proclaimed, "I got the ex/if you're into taking drugs/ I'm into having sex/ I ain't into making love" and you looked like you were having a great time. No judgment. I like that song too.
(Hat tip to SOULcrates via Oh Word.)
links for 2007-05-03
- Hat tip to Highjive. "After convincing so many that it was invincible to criticism and no more than a fresh voice of the street that was holding up a mirror and expressing unpleasant truths through its music and its poetry, the hip-hop dragon has begun to
- Advertising to Muslims NYT story is PR hype by self-proclaimed futurist Marian Salzman – MultiCultClassics"The woman has already demonstrated cultural cluelessness with more popular minority groups. Prospective clients ought to wonder why Salzman should be trusted with any non-White audience. Or for that matter, any White audience."
- Even with the best intentions, Asian actors get screwed. Read this account of how this actor's Reno 911 appearance was edited so that it changed from him faking an Asian accent to him actually being a walking stereotype.
- Hat tip to AAM. Here's "an honest, candid glimpse at his pre-show jitters and concerns, gripes about a stolen messenger bag…and his hopes for what West 32nd might contribute to the greater scope of Asian American popular culture."
- "If you're going to be in the Miami area for the opening, though you may want to get used to saying El Hombre Araña 3. That's because film goers there can watch Peter Parker speaking Spanish since there will be a dubbed version available on the big scree
- "In Chicago in 1886 labor activists held a general strike demanding an 8 hour day. Lucy Parsons Gonzalez, an African-, Native- and Mexican-, mother to two children and possibly born a slave in Texas, was leader in the strike along with her husband."
- "Prosecutors in a revived civil rights-era case are trying to persuade a federal judge to allow a television interview that Gilbert, who died in 2004, gave in 2000 to be used as evidence in the trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale."
- "Five members of a self-styled militia were denied bail Tuesday after a federal agent testified they planned a machine gun attack on Mexicans, but a judge approved bail for a sixth man."
- "Angry over recent raids and frustrated with Congress, thousands of people protested across the country Tuesday to demand a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. From Phoenix to Detroit to Miami…"
- "Among students at 28 top U.S. universities, the representation of black students of first- and second-generation immigrant origin (27 percent) was about twice their representation in the national population of blacks their age (13 percent)."
- "They started with free meth samples. The men pursued Indian women, providing them with meth even as they romanced them and fathered their children. Eventually, the women needed to support their habit, so they became dealers, too…"
- "Thx Zhu. "A coming paper by a University of Pennsylvania professor and a Cornell University graduate student says that, during the 13 seasons from 1991 through 2004, white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white..
- Thx Latoya. "At the end of the night we were finally introduced, but he was so full on, straight away – talking about how I was a delicious chocolate thing. Then he started to churn out more chat-up lines, like, 'Don't you want to be my leading lady?"
Racialicious! When Race and Pop Culture Collide
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I'm excited to announce that New Demographic's seminar, Racialicious! When Race and Pop Culture Collide, is now available in both audio seminar and e-book formats!
From the neo-minstrelsy of Flavor of Love to the racial segregation on Survivor, from the race-swapping families on Black.White. to the fascination with interracial sex, from Gwen Stefani's use of Harajuku girls as mute human props to Angelina Jolie's obsession with international adoption, from Michael Richards' lynching tirade to Rosie O'Donnell's "ching chong" remarks, race and pop culture are colliding more now than ever before.
What does pop culture reveal about our attitudes toward race and racism? Does pop culture's treatment of race help or harm discussions about race? As consumers of pop culture, what kinds of stereotypes and assumptions should we look out for?
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Asian family in cute Baskin Robbins commercial
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I wish my grandfather (the Chinese one) was as cool as this! Hat tip to Angry Asian Man.
links for 2007-05-02
- Thx nsekuye. Just who we wanted to hear from about this tragedy: The Pied Piper himself. "R. Kelly has written a new song, "Rise Up," about healing in the aftermath of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech."
- Thx Tereza. "Barack Obama's popularity is gaining on rival frontrunner Hillary Clinton, according to the Rasmussen Institute poll released Monday. Obama leads among voters under 40, it said. Clinton, 59, is strongest in the 65-and-older bracket."
- Thx Ananser. "Few of those at Mr. Wright's tribute in March knew of the pressures that Mr. Obama's presidential run was placing on the relationship between the pastor and his star congregant."
- Thx Kyla. "A genealogy Web site has taken a bold step in exposing the details of the British slave trade by publishing a list of Barbados slaves."
- Thx Ananser. "Consumer companies and advertising executives are focusing on ways to use the cultural aspects of the Muslim religion to help sell their products."
- Survivors of Tulsa Race Riots Seek Help From Congress for a Wrong Never Righted – washingtonpost.comThx Ananser. "The federal courts have ruled that the statute of limitations has expired for the victims and heirs to sue the city of Tulsa and OK over losses during 1921 race riots that left more than 200 blacks dead and 400 businesses and countless homes
- Thx Ananser. "Oakland city officials Wednesday announced two new resolutions condemning recent federal immigration raids and formalizing the city's intention not to cooperate with the U.S. government effort to deport undocumented residents."
- Thx Sylvia. "To add insult to injury – literally – Kensington Publishing has canceled its book deal with Shoshana Jonson, the country's first African-American female prisoner of war."
- Thx Ananser. "Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender — with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities — Japan set up a similar "comfort women"
- Runnin' Scared: Already a Pariah, Ex-AsianWeek Columnist Kenneth Eng Goes Even Lower – village voiceThx joy princess. "Eng also claims to "admire" Cho for the worst individual mass-murder in American history, and tells the Voice that he, at one time, planned to go on his own killing spree while he was a student at NYU, but couldn't afford a firearm."
- "Let's talk about white kids who consider themselves more enlightened than their granddaddy because they would never call a black person 'nigger,' yet pay black men to call black people 'nigger,' and black women 'ho' and 'bitch'.""
- "BAD NEWS FOR LOU DOBBS and those who dream of a culture with no flava. …HP today announced two additions to its HP Pavilion product line specifically for U.S. Hispanic consumers."
- "Maureen Dowd's admiration for "cheeky women" who "puncture the ego of a cocky guy" comes with a caveat: the women have to be white…her distaste for Michelle Obama's attitude toward her husband."
Hear Me Out: Hip-hop and Gender Criticism
by guest contributor dnA, originally published at Too Sense
I used to hate hip-hop… yup, because the women degraded
But Too $hort made me laugh, like a hypocrite I played it
A hypocrite I stated, though I only recited half
Omittin the word "bitch," cursin I wouldn't say it
Me and dog couldn't relate, til a bitch I dated
Forgive my favorite word for hers and hers alike
But I learnt it from a song I heard and sorta liked
-Lupe Fiasco, Hurt Me Soul
One of the unique things about Hip-hop is its ability to respond directly to criticism, which has been completely omitted in the ongoing mainstream media assault on Hip-hop culture and music. The root of Hip-hop's mainstream popularity is its ability to provide to white men, access to a fiction of black masculinity that reinforces their own perceptions of what a man is supposed to be. This in itself is informed by thousands of years of Western Civilization, and is present in all aspects of American culture.
However, unlike other mediums of artistic expression, something which is rarely acknowledged is that rappers regularly adress the problem of misogyny in Hip-hop. Lupe's verse above is to me, a powerfully simple explanation for the way certain ideas about gender are spread, he simply heard it from a song he sort of liked. But his admission of hypocrisy stands in stark contrast to the rest of American popular entertainment; when was the last time you heard anyone from a major television or film company admit that their product was sexist or misogynist, or in someway perpetuated harmful stereotypes about women?
That said, there is a strong reactionary sentiment among Hip-hop heads. Byron Crawford may be the single most popular Hip-hop columnist on the web, but there is little question that he absolutely hates women. He also apparently hates Muslims, and I will try to stay focused and not adress the absurd right wing talking points he clings to in this column on Lupe. More relevant to this post is that Lupe's admission that Hip-hop's depiction of women is harmful, and his criticism of mainstream Hip-hop's excessive materialism tags him, in Crawford's eyes, as a "suicide bomber":
Does Lupe Fiasco consider himself the equivalent of a suicide bomber sent to rid the rap world of a few infidels (metaphorically speaking at least)? When you think about it, his album does seem filled with that kind of rhetoric. He speaks of the images of champagne and bling bling so often projected in hip-hop the same way that Islamic fascists speak of American culture in general and, in particular, the "MTV culture" that they view as such a threat to Muslim youth.
And his claim that he once hated hip-hop because of the way women were treated (presumably before he became a gat-toting crack slinger?) seems ripe for further inspection beyond declaring his views "refreshing." Muslims, after all, aren't exactly known for being progressive when it comes to that sort of thing. Does he find that the depiction of women in rap lyrics is especially harsh vis a vis other genres of music or is the thought of a woman in revealing attire alone enough to set him off?
Crawford is regularly clowned by his readers but the sheer number of people who read his column means that on some level, people are absorbing his watered down Limbaugh talking points. (When I say Limbaugh, I'm not speculating; Crawford refers to Louis Farrakhan as "Calypso Louis", which is a term of Limbaugh's invention).
But if Crawford wasn't so bent on hating women for what may be a lifetime of rejection or the result of anger stemming from repressed homosexual tendencies, I won't speculate further, (again, read the man's column, he is unable to refer to gay people without using the phrase "teh ghey" and feared that if Imus were fired for referring to women as hoes that god forbid, people might actually stop doing that) he would realize that there is an ongoing discourse about the representation of women in Hip-hop. No one can argue that Jay-Z has been selling more albums for longer than anyone else still rapping, and he certainly took personally accusations of misogyny on Blueprint 2: Continue reading
links for 2007-05-01
- Thx Kimberly. "Black women who walk across the stage and receive college degrees become 145 times more likely to suffer sexual, domestic or other abuse than those who did not finish high school, according to a recent study."
- Thx HighJive. "four years after NASCAR launched a program called Drive for Diversity to produce elite minority and female drivers, it has no blacks or women competing regularly in either of its top circuits, the Nextel Cup and Busch series."
- Thx AAM. "The lead character…is an Asian-American playwright named "DHH" who realizes that a white actor has been mistakenly cast as an Asian in the playwright's latest Broadway flop."
- T-shirt of Chinese food container. "Yet another one to file under stupid racist t-shirts: Where My Dogs At? And in case you were confused, the accompanying description reads, "Everybody knows that the cutest dogs are orange flavored."
- "Senator John Edwards released the following statement…"The recent radio skit of these two hosts was beyond disgusting. As individuals and as a nation, we have to condemn this kind of language – there is just no place for it in our public dialogue."
- Thx Tereza. ""A lot of Muslim kids are tired of being told what to do, how to think, what to believe in, and how to act, by their parents. . . There's so much animosity towards Muslims and we need a dissenting voice to say 'fuck you' to people who pigeonh
- Thx Tereza. I'm shocked. Shocked! "Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found."
- Thx Tereza. "More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday."
- This is fucking disgusting. Thx Tereza. "Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far…Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil."
- Thx Milan. The Roots drummer ?uestlove gets harrassed by the DEA at the airport.
- "Led by mixed race celebrities like Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tiger Woods, race, culture and identity are changing in America. Is being multi-racial an identity all its own, or a delicate balance of old divides?"
- Thx Tereza. "More than 350 letters that university officials call racist were sent to seven dorms on the Ohio State campus. The essay style writing of the letter, titled "On Average, Blacks Are Less Intelligent Than Whites," has students talking."


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The Petaluma City Council election is almost two years away, but three candidates already are on the campaign trail raising money.
Three council seats and the separately elected mayor's position will be on the Nov. 4, 2014, ballot.
Councilman Mike Harris, seeking his fourth consecutive term on the council, has $11,300 in the bank, the most as of Jan. 1, according to semi-annual campaign finance reports released this week.
Pam Torliatt, who served 10 years on the council and four years as mayor, has a $4,400 balance. She is seeking a return to the council after being out of office since 2010 when she ran unsuccessfully for county supervisor.
Mayor David Glass has $8,200 cash on hand, $5,000 of which came from a personal loan to his campaign for re-election.
No other candidates have filed forms with the city declaring their intentions to seek election in 2014.
In addition to the mayoral post, the council seats of Harris, Teresa Barrett and Chris Albertson will expire in 2014.
Harris wouldn't confirm rumors he will challenge Glass for mayor. He said this week he will make an announcement soon.
Glass is seeking a third term as mayor. He was elected to the post in 2002. In 2008, he was elected to the council and then ran mid-term for mayor in 2010.
Torliatt was elected to the Petaluma council in 1996 and was re-elected in 2000 and 2004. She quit her council post mid-term after being elected mayor in 2006.

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Sherrington: Mavs blew up a title team for this?
Here is a sample of columnist Kevin Sherrington's column on the Mavericks missing out on free-agent point guard Deron Williams.
Plan appears to have backfired? The Mavs blow up an NBA champion team so they can clear the decks for Deron Williams and/or Dwight Howard, neither of whom can be seen circling over American Airlines Center or even on the radar. Not only that, but Jason Terry appears ready to touch down in Boston. Meanwhile, with Dirk Nowitzki's window closing and his basketball empire seemingly hanging in the balance, Mark Cuban is off filming a reality TV show. Does this sound like any way to run what was until recently a great franchise?
Tough job: I don't know how anyone covers the NBA anymore. If it's not covert messages and birthday wishes from superstars scheming to play together in Miami, New York or LA, it's teams scrapping the present and betting their futures on the off-chance that one of these guys might actually want to play for them.
Man in the middle was missed: Tyson Chandler isn't Dwight Howard. But he remains the best center the Mavs ever had, and the only one to lead them to a title. Still, Cuban and Donnie Nelson figured the chances of repeating with the same team weren't good, and they didn't want to compromise their "flexibility" going forward. So Chandler ends up in New York, where he gets $58 million over four years and wins NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Risk, but where's the reward? A championship team in a good market with plenty of resources can't re-sign one of its two best players because it will jeopardize its future. Now that, friends, is messed up. The Mavs risk the last two or three good years of Nowitzki's career. They risk the good faith built up by Cuban. They had a title team and gave up on it without a fight. And what do they have to show for it? For the life of me, I can't even guess.


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air: Hudson River Samplers Wanda Fischer.
Chris Shields
Back Pages
folky Hudson River Sampler turns 25
Glenn Weiser
the early 1960s, a folk song was basically an old ballad
of unknown authorship. But as singer-songwriters, starting
with Bob Dylan, appeared on the scene, controversies ragedand
still doover the terms meaning. Folk-music maven Wanda
Fischer, a blonde, 60ish woman whose WAMC radio show The
Hudson River Sampler celebrates its 25th anniversary
this weekend, wont touch the question even though she
knows the genre intimately. To paraphrase Justice Potter
Stewart, she cant define it, but she knows it when she
hears it. The What is folk music debate is not winnable,
she wrote in a recent e-mail interview. I play what I
like and what I consider to be folky. It is a matter of
taste, and I wont deny it.
taste, however, is unimpeachable, being informed by decades
of listening to everything within folks admittedly ambiguous
bailiwick: bluegrass, blues, Celtic music, protest songs,
early country music, contemporary singer-songwriters,
and acoustic instrumental masters. She is also a singer
and a guitar player, with a CD (Singing Along with
the Radio) of her own. Consequently, what her listeners
get is a knowledgeable selection of songs offering something
for every kind of folk fan. Wandas gracious personality
and good taste boosts the reputation of folk music, Sarah
Craig, the director of Caffe Lena, said in an e-mail.
I always feel confident that all is alive and well with
folk music after an hour spent listening to Hudson
River Sampler.
Fischer was born in Kingsport, Tenn., where her father
was friends with Maybelle Carter and others of the famous
singing family. After serving in World War II, her father
couldnt find work back in Tennessee, so the family moved
to Weymouth, Mass., near her mothers hometown of Boston
(her parents met at Beantowns long-gone Hillbilly Ranch).
She grew up with roots music: Folk musicparticularly
old-timey stuff and bluegrasswas always a part of the
home scene, and when we went to visit my fathers family
every summer, members of the Carter family would visit,
and when they opened the Carter Family Fold, we went there
to sing, play, and just listen, says Fischer, adding,
I have some great photos of my father and June riding
on my dads motorcycle.
the mid 1960s she was frequenting folk coffeehouses in
Harvard Square and hitting the Newport Folk Festival in
the summer (she was there when Arlo Guthrie premiered
his famous rambling antiwar saga, Alices Restaurant).
I saw many legends back then without knowing they were
legendsMississippi John [Hurt], Bill Monroe, Richard
and Mimi Farina, Ian and Sylvia, etc.
like many other folk fans at the time, also became an
antiwar activist, and once saw a young John Kerry address
100,000 protesters at a peace rally on the Boston Common
when he was with Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
receiving an English degree in 1975 from Northeastern
University, she moved to Worcester, Mass., with her husband
Bill, a medical student. While he was in school there,
she volunteered for a local community radio station, WCUW-FM,
at first producing their program guide. When the host
of the stations folk show left, Fischer took over the
microphone, and learned how run a board, edit tape, and
other technical skills. She captained the show for the
next four years.
Fischers moved to the Albany area in 1979 when Bill began
his residency here. Wanda plunged into the local folk
scene, which at the time consisted mainly of weekend concerts
at the Eighth Step and Caffe Lena, the late Jackie Alpers
Sunday-evening WRPI show Mostly Folk, the weekly
hootenannies of the Pickin and Singin Gatherin, and
the Fox Hollow festival in Petersburg. In the process,
she became fast friends with Alper, a venerable folkie
and leftist who had performed with Woody Guthrie and Pete
Seeger in the Almanac singers, and was musicologist Alan
Lomaxs personal secretary.
to get back into radio, Fischer got involved with WAMC,
then broadcasting from the WMHT studios in Rotterdam,
by designing their program guide. History repeated itself
when in 1982 WAMC honcho Alan Chartock offered her a folk
show, which now airs Saturday evenings from 8 to 10:30
PM on 90.3 FM and its regional mirror stations, as well
as online in streaming audio at www.wamc.org. The broadcast
debuted on Sept. 18 of that year, and the left ends of
local and regional FM-radio dials have been happier ever
what can you expect to hear on the Hudson River Sampler?
Just about everything, Fischer says. Traditional, contemporary,
folk, blues, bluegrass, old-timey, political music. However,
my taste runs to the more acoustic. I dont like heavy
productionbig drums, big organs, big horn sections, etc.
I like the recordings that sound like what it might sound
like to hear the acts in person.
broad range of styles notwithstanding, she is still choosy
about what she spins while allowing for spontaneity. I
only get to play between 30 to 35 cuts every week, and
we have about 10,000 CDs in the library at WAMC, so I
am selective. I put together sets of things that seem
to belong together, whether thematically or musically.
mostly improvises her playlists in the studio. I dont
plan out my show before I go to the station every week.
I usually pull out a few things that I have been thinking
about all week and then let it flow. Im constantly running
back and forth to grab this or that CD from the library.
A look at last Saturdays slate (viewable online at www.wamc.org/prog-hudson.html)
showed she played cuts from both national and local artists,
including Roger McGuinn, Anne Hills, Phil Ochs, the Hunger
Mountain Boys, Paul Straussman, and Christopher Shaw.
her favorite artists, she says she prefers traditional
musicians and singer-songwriters. Her top picks? Whew,
thats a long list. I could play John Kirks Shenandoah
every week, but I dont. Connie Kaldor, John McCutcheon,
Bill Staines, Gordon Bok, Anne Hills, Priscilla Herdman,
Cindy Mangsen, Steve Gillette, Chris Shaw, Bridget Ball,
David Roth, Bernice Lewis, Cheryl Wheeler. Kim and Reggie
Harris, and Magpie. And the list could go on. The theme
song for my show all these years has been Big Darks
Fancy by Cindy Kallet. Shes wonderful as well.
least one from that list, singer-songwriter Bernice Lewis,
will share the bill tomorrow (Friday) at a 25th-anniversary
concert at the Linda Norris Auditorium with a lineup of
performers cherry-picked by Fischer. Also appearing will
be fellow songsmiths Jonathan Edwards, Debra Cowen, and
Pat Wictor, and rootsy fingerstyle-guitar ace Toby Walker.
years on, Wanda Fischer isnt slowing down a bit. As
long as its fun, she says, Ill keep on doing it.
Hudson River Sampler 25th Anniversary Show takes place
tomorrow (Friday) night at the WAMC Performing Arts Studio
(339 Central Ave., Albany). Tickets are $25, and can be
reserved by calling 465-5233 ext. 4. Hudson River Sampler,
the radio show, airs Saturdays from 8 to 10:30 PM on WAMC
Looks like film lovers of various stripes will
be hearing more music by Capital Region bands
in the near future. For one, Glens Falls-based
power-pop trio Phillips Head announced
this week that Mind Lab Films has licensed three
of the bands songs for use in the upcoming feature
film Love Conquers Paul. Says singer-guitarist
(and WEQX DJ) Jason Irwin, I e-mailed
them about being an extra, and the whole band
ended up in the movie. Seems one of the films
protagonists is in a rock band, so, following
a meeting with writer-director Colin Bannon, the
three members of Phillips Head were drafted to
play the band for a few live-performance scenes.
Bannon is shooting the romantic comedy in several
locations around Glens Falls; scenes featuring
Phillips Head will be shot in early October. Meanwhile,
the band have a handful of live dates lined up;
find out more at www.phillips-head.com.
Also, the reliably sleazy (in a good way!) Erotics
have had some luck getting their music featured
in something vaguely resembling romantic cinema.
Erotics frontman Mike Trash revealed recently
that five songs from his bands latest disc, 30
Seconds Over You (I still love that title),
will be featured on the DVD Girls, Girls, Girls
from adult film company Burning Angel. I couldnt
imagine a better fiteven the title speaks to
the bands long-burning Motley Crue jones. Trash
says the companys Web site gets over 1 million
hits daily, and will have an upcoming interview
with the Erotics as well. Who says porn doesnt
pay? Check www.eroticrocknroll.com for more on
the bands exploits.
ON THE LIST The annual Metroland Local
Music Issue hits newsstands on Thursday, Nov.
1, and will include, among many other things,
our comprehensive guide to local bands, musicians,
recording studios, and more. To get listed, look
for the mail-in form in todays issue (itll be
in each week leading up to the issue), or head
over to our Web site, www.metroland.net, and fill
in the form online.
us know about local-music news and happenings
for inclusion in Rough Mix: E-mail John Brodeur
at email@example.com or call (518) 463-2500
ext. 145


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by NMMA
Aboard her appropriately named boat, First Boomer, 62-year-old Kathy CaseyKirschling is leaving the retirement stereotype in her wake – and she's not alone.
Baby Boomers are finding boating meets their needs.
Casey-Kirschling was one of the 17 million boomers (ages 50-64) who went boating in 2007. With 80 million boomers retiring over the next two decades, recreational boating industry experts from Discover Boating predict the number of boomer boat owners to grow.
The boomer generation is known for redefining every stage of their lives from adolescence to parenthood and retirement is no exception. For boaters, spending time with family, the feeling of freedom on the water and being active in nature are key factors that drive them to the boating lifestyle. It's no surprise then that as boomers look for ways to stay active after retirement, they're turning to boating.
According to an AARP segmentation study, 57 percent of baby boomers expect to live near at least one of their children and 70 percent say they look forward to being a grandparent. The same survey also reported that 73 percent of boomers expect to have a hobby or special interest that they will dedicate a lot of time to when they're retired.
'Boating keeps me engaged and moving in my retirement,' said Kathy Casey-Kirschling. 'Whether we're tubing, fishing or simply hosting celebrations on the water, boating enhances the time I spend with my husband, kids and grandkids.'
As a 15-year veteran boater, Casey-Kirschling recommends boomers conduct extensive research before dipping their toes in the boating waters. From choosing the right boat for a particular lifestyle to understanding costs, she underscores the importance of doing homework to ensure an enjoyable boating experience.
'With the help of unbiased resources like DiscoverBoating.com, boomers can find the advice they need to make smart decisions in their boat buying process,' said Casey-Kirschling. 'Many find boating to be an extremely accessible activity for people of every age, income and lifestyle. But, I always stress the real value of boating is time spent with family and friends – that's priceless.'
Boating is also more convenient. NMMA reports that 90 percent of Americans live less than an hour's drive from a navigable body of water. With airport delays getting longer, and road trips getting more costly, boating allows families to make the most of their leisure time together, make new friends and create new experiences in their own backyards.
'Boating is at the heart of what boomers, like myself, love – an active hobby that provides an opportunity to explore the world while bonding with family and friends,' said Thom Dammrich, president of Discover Boating and the National Marine Manufacturers Association. 'Boating resonates with boomers because it's a lifestyle that speaks to their independent spirit, desire for social experiences and travel, while being attainable when it comes to affordability.'
Boating within Boomers' Budgets
With an estimated annual spending of $2 trillion, according to MetLife Mature Market Institute, boomers have their sights set on recreational activities. A recent RBC Capital Markets survey found 80 percent of people plan to purchase a recreational product at some point in the future, with baby boomers and GenXers focusing their spending on recreational vehicles.
Of this 80 percent, most respondents were desirous of a boat (27 percent) followed by an all-terrain vehicle, motorcycle, towable RV and motorhome.
While the desire for boat ownership is prevalent, many boomers are under the misconception that boating is reserved only for the affluent. However, according to the NMMA, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of boat owners have a household income under $100,000.
'Many boomers are surprised at how easy and economical it is to fit boating into their retirement plans,' said Jim Coburn, president of the National Marine Bankers Association.
'Similar to buying a car, there are a variety of financing options available with monthly payments for many entry-level boats under $200 a month.'
In a boating budget planner found on DiscoverBoating.com, the site compares average annual costs of owning a boat versus other recreational activities. For example, a seven-day Florida vacation will cost a family of four an average of $3,100 over the course of a year or $258 a month. Whereas, a family can own a $25,000 boat for $225 a month and enjoy the entire summer out on the water for the cost of a single vacation.
About Discover Boating
Discover Boating is a national awareness campaign developed by the recreational boating industry and managed by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA.) Discover Boating programs focus on improving the boating experience and building interest in recreational boating by demonstrating the
benefits, affordability and accessibility of the boating lifestyle, while helping potential boaters experience why life is better with a boat. Each year approximately 59 million adults in the U.S. enjoy boating.
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An elevated river walk allowing pedestrians to view the Ouachita River in downtown Monroe from Warehouse No. 1 restaurant south to the existing RiverMarket and eventually to the Masur Museum could get a jump start if it clears Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk and the Louisiana Bond Commission.
A $475,000 appropriation for the $3.5 million project made the cut in House Bill 2, which awaits the signature of the governor, who has line item veto power in what's better known as the Capital Outlay Bill.
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LONDON – Ten years on, the euro is a resounding success. A financial-market heavyweight, it now outperforms the dollar, the yen, and, until recently, the mighty Chinese yuan, while euro-denominated bond trading rivals the US market in size.
But Europe should be doing better. It should act with greater imagination to unleash more genuine economic freedom and competition, stop championing national enterprises, and start giving the European Central Bank more support. Euro-zone policymakers should also seize the initiative in the world's key economic clubs.
In particular, members of Europe's economic and monetary union should give up their seats in the G-7 and the International Monetary Fund. There may be some justification for each EMU state to be represented in the G-8, but not in the main economic organizations. If they volunteered to act collectively at these forums, Europe would free up much-needed space for other important countries at the top table of world economic discussions, which would foster greater respect for global policymakers.
Internally, euro-zone "success" can best be measured by the yardstick of economic growth. Many commentators cite the wide disparities between euro-zone members' growth rates as a sign of failure. But many other single-currency areas, including the US, display similar divergence. It should also be obvious that, in the absence of currency markets to act as a "valve" for economic and financial pressures, economic volatility may increase.
In fact, euro-zone leaders should be less worried about variations in internal growth than about clear evidence of overall economic underperformance. While growth has been reasonably stable since EMU started, per capita GDP – probably the best measure of economic success available – shows that Europe has lagged other regions, even when the figures are adjusted for workforce size. It is also well known that European productivity is falling behind, too, probably due to the same factors that make Europe seem dull, cautious, and lacking in ambition when compared with many of its competitors.
When it comes to internal competition policies, most European countries still think within the national "box." For the euro to help lift European growth and productivity in any significant way, governments must allow – indeed, encourage – stronger competitive forces across the EMU area.
In terms of external economic policy, European policymakers have done very little in response to the wholesale changes now underway in the world economy – beyond complaining about Chinese imports and Russia's aggressive use of its commodities, and, most recently, becoming embarrassingly obsessed with so-called Sovereign Wealth Funds.
This is a poor showing for countries that successfully confronted the challenges of creating the EU and monetary union. After all the diplomacy and effort that these epoch-making events required, European policymakers should be able to tackle reform of the IMF, the World Bank, the G-7, and the G-8. Yet all of these institutions still reflect the post-World War II status quo, which serves little purpose in today's world.
For example, why is there an international economic organization such as the G-7 without China, which is poised to overtake Germany as the world's third largest economy and since 2000 has contributed almost as much to global economic activity as the entire euro zone? Most global economic issues today cannot be solved without policy steps in China. Indeed, how can the G-7 have the audacity to make repeated public comments about the currency of an outside country and hope for a positive response? It is almost farcical.
Meanwhile, France, Germany, and Italy are all in the G-7, even though they share the same monetary policy and currency. It would be better if the ECB and the EU finance ministers adopted a common position ahead of G-7 meetings, then allowed their joint view to be represented by a single Council representative and the ECB's president. Because ministers meet before each G-7 meeting, this would be an easy procedure to introduce.
Indeed, a "financial G-6" may today make more sense than the current G-7, but that may no longer hold true tomorrow. In another 10 years, India may be in the top echelon of economic powers. Or Britain might have joined the euro, making its independent role redundant. Can Canada keep its place while Russia and Brazil are excluded? And what other economic giants are waiting in the wings?
Clearly, therefore, we need to devise a system of membership for key international organizations that ensures that their structures are relevant but that is also flexible enough to allow members to come and go. One way forward would be to establish numerical guidelines – along the lines of the Maastricht Treaty – for conferring G-7 membership.
Europe should lead by example – offering the world the benefit of its deep experience of financial diplomacy and volunteering to take the first steps forward. Given that Europe managed to construct EMU, the Maastricht Treaty, and the stability and growth pact that underlines the euro, it should be relatively easy for euro-zone experts to help devise a system for judging G-7 type membership. Unless European countries take the initiative on global financial institutional reform, it will remain a lost cause.


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BIRMINGHAM — It took a full night and a drive to work for it to start sinking in for Birmingham Seaholm volleyball coach Heather Lippert.
The previous evening, the Maples kept their postseason run alive, beating Clarkston High in three games in a Class A regional final Nov. 8 at Rochester High.
It's Seaholm's first regional championship in at least 10 years, probably more, according to Lippert.
"You can't stop time and take it all in," she said just before another practice began. "You just have to keep living your life, but it's great. I wish I could, just for a few minutes, stop and think about all the lovely things they've done and how hard they've worked. They're an amazing group of kids."
Seaholm played Macomb Dakota in a quarterfinal after press time. The winner heads to Battle Creek for the semifinals at 7:15 p.m. Nov. 16.
Win or lose, the Maples have had a postseason run filled with redemption and confidence.
For their district title, Seaholm beat perennial state power Bloomfield Hills Marian in five games, a team that had beaten the Maples twice during the regular season and has been on numerous occasions the program to end Seaholm's season in districts.
The Maples also made good against Clarkston. The Wolves had beat Seaholm three times this season.
In the regional semifinal against Troy High, Seaholm also won in three games. In the regular season, it took five games to beat the Colts.
Lippert said the difference is that they're playing as one unit.
"There's not just one person that is contributing. There's not one person leading the path. They're all in it and supporting each other," she said.
Senior Kathy Quigley agreed.
"We're working harder than we ever have," she said. "We're not willing to lose, and every time the ball comes over the net, we're working for that point."
Quigley added that she didn't expect as dominating of a run.
"At the same time, it's something I'm trying really hard to take a grasp of as we keep winning and moving on," she said. "This team is truly one of a kind and something I'm trying to cherish."
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Thanks to two early scores, some lock-down defense, and a touchdown with just 5:25 remaining in regulation, the Beverly Hills Detroit Country Day football team picked up a 20-13 victory against Milan High in a Division 4 regional final on Nov. 14 and earned this week's Team of the Week honor. Country Day, which had outscored its opponents 78-7 in the district round, advanced to the state semifinals for the second year in a row. The Yellowjackets (11-1) face Flint Powers Catholic (10-2) at 1 p.m. Nov. 21 at West Bloomfield High.


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There have been several new viral diseases reported on greenhouse vegetable
crops worldwide, and some of them are of great concern to greenhouse vegetable
production in British Columbia. Information given below focuses only on a few
potential new viral diseases that have been reported on greenhouse vegetable
crops in North and Central America, and, therefore, these viruses are very
likely to be introduced into Canada. The purpose of this factsheet is to bring
awareness to the greenhouse vegetable growers and to engage them in active
surveillance and biosecurity measures to prevent the introduction, establishment
and spread of such damaging viral diseases.
Early detection of viral diseases is critical to prevent or minimize the
spread of the virus and potential crop losses in greenhouses. If a new
viral-like symptom(s) or a potential virus-vector is suspected in a greenhouse,
then, it is critical to confirm the presence of it by following a proper
identification process through a recognized plant pest diagnostic laboratory.
Viruses are too small to be seen and identified with a light microscope.
Therefore, specialized techniques such as ELISA (enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay)
and RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction) are required in
order to confirm the virus. Once the identity of the virus is confirmed,
specific control strategies must be implemented immediately.
Virus Description and Distribution
Columbian datura virus (CDV), a member of the family Potyvirus, is known to infect plants particularly in the family Solanaceae, including tomato and tobacco, and many ornamentals (Brugmansia, Juanulloa, Petunia, Pepino etc.). Initially, CDV was detected in Datura species imported from Columbia to the United States in 1968. Since then, the virus has been reported from Australia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Poland and the United States. In the United States, CDV was reported from several States in 2003 and 2004 on ornamental plants (Spiranthes orchids, Brugmansia spp. etc.). In Canada, CDV was first detected in 2007 on Brugmansia spp. in British Columbia. CDV is listed on the USA Regulated Plant Pest list but not on the Canadian Regulated Plant Pest List. It appears that CDV is more widespread than originally thought. Economically important Solanaceous crops, including field- and greenhouse-grown tomato and field potato can be at risk. It is important that growers pay close attention to the disease and engage in periodic monitoring for symptoms on greenhouse tomato.
Infected tomato plants can remain symptomless but the symptoms are expressed when plants are stressed. Symptoms are most commonly seen on activity growing plants. Although the typical symptoms on greenhouse tomato are not well characterized the symptoms may mimic the symptoms expressed on other solanaceous plants such as Brugmansia spp. (figure 1). The commonly observed symptoms on greenhouse tomato in the Netherlands are reduction in leaf size, chlorotic flecking (mosaic) and mottling on leaves, shrivelling of leaves, vein-banding, stunting of plants and discolouration of flowers.
CDV is transmitted by the common Green Peach Aphid (Myzus persicae) in a non-persistent manner (i.e. the aphid picks up the virus while feeding a virus-infected plant and carries the virus in its mouth-parts and transmits to a healthy plant). CDV can also be transmitted mechanically by grafting (between healthy root-stocks and virus-infected scions), wound-inoculation and vegetative propagation. Very little is known about the other pathways of mechanical transmission, particularly by workers, leaf pruners, greenhouse equipment or plant-to-pant contact.
Virus Description and Distribution
Tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV) is a member of genus Crinivirus
(family Closterovirus). It was first reported in 1993 on field tomatoes and then
in greenhouse tomatoes in California and North Carolina, USA. Subsequently, the
virus was detected on greenhouse tomatoes in Europe (Italy, Spain, Greece and
France) and Asia (Indonesia, Japan and Taiwan). It has been shown to have a
moderately wide host range (26 plant species in 8 plant families), including
vegetables such as tomato, potato, lettuce and artichoke, ornamentals such as
petunia, and several weeds.
Symptoms can be confused with nutritional disorders, poor growing conditions,
natural senescence, or pesticide toxicity. Initial symptoms appear as
interveinal yellowing with green veins mostly on mature lower leaves, while the
rest of the plant tends to appear "normal". As the disease progresses, the
similar symptoms can be observed on young upper leaves. Subsequently, the
symptomatic leaves become pale-white, necrotic, dry and curled (figure 2).
Infected leaves (especially older ones) may also turn red. Early infection can
also affect the fruit set, colour and quality, resulting in substantial yield
loss. Similar symptoms can also be expressed by tomato plants infected with Tomato chlorosis virus, ToCV, (see below).
TICV is transmitted in a semi-persistent manner by the greenhouse whitefly,
Trialeurodes vaporariorum (figure 6). Therefore, the movement of virus in
the host-plant is restricted to phloem tissue only. TICV is not known to be
transmitted by other whiteflies (Trialeurodes spp. and Bemisia spp.).
The virus is not seed-borne or transmitted mechanically.
Virus Description and Distribution
Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is also a member of genus Crinivirus
(family Closterovirus) which is closely related to Tomato infectious
chlorosis virus (TICV). ToCV causes symptoms on tomatoes that are very
similar to the symptoms caused by TICV and, thus, cannot be distinguished.
However, ToCV and TICV can be differentiated based on the symptoms expressed on
the indicator plants, Nicotiana benthamiana and N. clevelandii.
The major difference between ToCV and TICV is that ToCV is transmitted by the
greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum), the banded-wing whitefly
(T. abutilonea) and silverleaf whiteflies (Bemisia spp.), biotypes
A (B. tabaci) and B (B. argentifolii), while TICV is transmitted solely
by the greenhouse whitefly. Like TICV, ToCV is also transmitted in a
semi-persistent manner by whiteflies and its movement in host plants is
restricted to phloem tissue. ToCV has been shown to have a moderately wide host
range (24 plant species in 7 plant families), including tomato and sweet pepper,
as well as some weeds.
Although ToCV first appeared in 1989 in greenhouse-grown tomatoes in Florida,
USA, and, later, in Colorado and Louisiana, it wasn't confirmed as ToCV until
1996. Subsequently, ToCV has been reported on greenhouse-grown tomatoes in many
countries of the Caribbean, East Asia, Southern Africa, Europe and the
Mediterranean. In 2003, sweet pepper was identified as a natural host for ToCV
in Spain.
Tomato plant infected with ToCV expresses symptoms similar to those expressed by
TICV (figure 3). Therefore, it is difficult to diagnose plants infected with these viruses
based on the symptoms. It is also possible that a single tomato plant can also
be co-infected with both ToCV and TICV. It is, therefore, critical to submit
suspected plant samples to a recognized plant pest diagnostic laboratory for
accurate identification.
Virus Description and Distribution
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is known to infect many
vegetable crops including tomato, pepper and bean as well as many ornamental
plants such as poinsettia. TYLCV can cause severe economic losses to tomato
production, where yield losses of up to 100% in greenhouse tomato production
have been reported in Southern Europe and the Middle East. TYLCV spreads
systemically in the host plant and is limited to phloem tissue.
TYLCV has been
a major threat to tomato production in Israel since 1930. It was introduced into
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica in the early 1990s'. Since then, TYLCV
has been reported from Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe and North and
Central America. In North America, TYLCV is known to occur in Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, and has recently been detected in California and Arizona.
Visible symptoms can be seen on tomato plants 2-3 weeks after initial infection
by TYLCV (figure 4). Symptoms can vary slightly depending on the tomato cultivar
and amount of virus infection. Generally, infected plants have
smaller-than-normal leaves that are cupped upward, thick and rubbery with
chlorotic margins (figure 5). Young infected plants become severely stunted.
Infected plants drop up to 90% of their flowers resulting in major yield losses.
TYLCV is transmitted by adult silverleaf whiteflies, Bemisia argentifolii,
previously known as Bemisia tabaci biotype B, (figure 6
). The silverleaf
whitefly is a different species than the common greenhouse whitefly (figure
which does not transmit TYLCV. Silverleaf whiteflies are rarely seen in British
Columbia. They are small, phloem-feeding insects which pick up the virus while
feeding on infected host plants. Since TYLCV has a broad host range, it can be
spread by silverleaf whiteflies that feed on other infected host plants,
including cultivated and wild plants. Not all host plants infected with TYLCV
show visible symptoms, however the virus can be acquired by silverleaf
whiteflies from symptomless infected plants and transmitted to tomato. The virus
can also be transmitted through cuttings taken from infected plants or it can be
introduced into a greenhouse with virus-infected transplants. TYLCV can not be
transmitted mechanically or by workers and is not transmitted by seeds. Even if
TYLCV shows up in British Columbia, it may not become established due to the
unlikely survival of silverleaf whiteflies in winter months. On the other hand,
there is evidence to suggest that TYLCV can be persistent and can overwinter in
infected plants and plant materials.
Virus diseases are very difficult to control once they become established.
The possible presence of a potential virus on other host plants (including
weeds) in the absence of a host crop, and the ability of virus-vectors (the
greenhouse whitefly, the banded-whitefly and silverleaf whiteflies) to feed and
reproduce on crop plant make it difficult to control the disease successfully.
It is highly recommended that a collective management approach, i.e. a combining
of cultural practices, biosecurity measures, greenhouse sanitation and
disinfection practices, and insect-vector control strategies, should be adopted
to reduce the impact of virus diseases on a crop.
Prepared by:
Dr. Siva Sabaratnam,
Plant Pathologist,
Abbotsford Agriculture Centre,
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture
Updated May, 2012
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First responders and others across the country have had to learn the hard way how to deal with a person who enters a public place and opens fire.
Huron officials practiced an active shooter drill at the Hospital Thursday. In the drill, a role player acted the part of a disgruntled family member taking revenge on staff in the hospital.
"We never want an event like this to happen within any community anywhere in the United States," hospital security director Nathan Hall said. "But we on the other hand want our staff and the community to be as prepared as we can if an event like this did happen in the community."
Hall says training in an active shooter scenario is required by the state this year. In Huron, the exercise included close to ten entities who'd respond to a real-life active shooter. Those entities included law enforcement, healthcare, community counseling and others.
"At 1:46 this afternoon our 911 dispatchers received a report of an active shooter in the same day surgery of the hospital," police Sergeant Brandon Neitzert said as part of the exercise.
"We do have three victims currently in the hospital. Two of them are critical and in surgery," Huron Regional Medical Center spokesperson Kim Rieger said.
Although those numbers aren't real, parties involved are hopeful the exercise they're connected with will have a real impact.
Huron Police Chief Gary Will says if a situation like this were to happen in Huron in the future, his department would be more prepared to handle it after Thursday's exercise.
In fact, Will says police have already made adjustments based on lessons learned during the drill.
"We've learned a lot and we've already started applying what we've learned for future responses," Will said.
Officials at the hospital are gathering information from all the parties involved.
"The hospital will take that information, look at it and then we'll make the changes necessary for the hospital," Hall said.
Will says police also learn lessons from law enforcement officers who've encountered active shooter situations. He expects lessons learned Thursday to improve responses during other situations as well.


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Radiation dose escalation might improve local control in NSCLC, but is associated with increased toxicity. Consequently patients have to be selected carefully to prevent, both over- and undertreatment. As part of a prospective clinical trial we reported that metabolic responders and non-responders (EORTC-criteria) showed different time trends in maximal SUV (standardized uptake value, SUVmax) of 18F-FDG on PET-scan. Moreover, metabolic responders showed an improved overall survival compared to non-responders (van Baardwijk et al., Radioth Oncol 2007). The aim of the current study was to investigate changes in plasma levels of cytokines and the association of these changes with SUVmax and the amount of toxicity during and after radiotherapy (RT), to further unravel underlying mechanisms.
From 21 patients included in the clinical trial, repeated plasma samples (n=67) were collected before RT, on day 7 and 14 during RT and 70 days after RT. Levels of IL-1b, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, M30, M65, osteopontin and neopterin were assessed using ELISA's. Unmeasurable levels were assumed to be zero. Levels of cytokines were associated with SUVmax of FDG-PET and toxicity score, according to CTCAE-criteria. Moreover, changes in levels of cytokines between the different time points during RT (day 0 versus day 7, day 7 versus day 14) were correlated with changes in SUVmax within the same time-interval. Results are expressed as mean ± SEM. Pearson correlation coefficient and Mann Whitney U-test were used to analyze the data.
A large heterogeneity in evolution in cytokine levels during RT was observed between individual patients. It was shown that changes in SUVmax correlated with changes in the level of IL-6, showing a correlation coefficient of 0.51 for the change between day 0 and day 7 (p=0.02) and of 0.59 for the change in the second week of RT (day 7 and 14, p=0.02). This correlation was not observed for other cytokines. Moreover, IL-6 levels were higher in patients showing no metabolic response compared to responders: day 0 resp. 18.9 ± 7.6 and 6.0 ± 0.9 (p=0.06), day 7 resp. 31.0 ± 13.0 and 9.5 ± 3.0 (p=0.03) and for day 14 resp. 25.3 ± 12.2 and 8.5 ± 1.9 (p=0.10). Seventy days after RT, levels of IL-1b (r=-0.55, p=0.04) as well as neopterin (r=0.58, p=0.04) were positively correlated with clinically symptomatic pneumonitis (>grade 1). Furthermore, the dyspnea score at this time point showed a graded correlation with plasma levels of neopterin (r=0.76, p≤0.01) and the cough score with osteopontin levels (r=0.81, p≤0.01), while these phenomena were not observed during RT.
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Subject: CRD: Breathe... (Floyd/DSOTM)
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Here's the chords to Breathe... of DSOTM by Pink Floyd.
Anybody got the chords to "Money" ?
It would complete my collection of songs on DSOTM.
Enjoy, Bo.
Em A Em A etc
Em A
Breathe, breathe in the air
Em A
Don't be afraid to care
Em A
Leave but don't leave me
Em A
Look around and chose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Unfortunately I'm not sure about this last line.
It might be completely wrong. If so, feel free to correct.
Here's the rest of the lyrics, same chords should apply...
Run, run rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to start another one
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.
(and right after the last chord of "Time" theres...)
Breathe Reprise
Home, home again
I like to be there when UI can
When I come in cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
nice tab man, pink floyd ruled all...some ppl believe P.F was betta after Syd left...but...I disagree


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Philadelphia Flyers Chairman Ed Snider was in a jovial mood at the opening day of training camp, thanks to the overwhelming crowd at the Flyers SkateZone in Voorhees, N.J. Several thousand fans showed up, despite the Eagles opening their NFL season on the same day, as the Flyers got down to business in preparation for the 2009-10 season.
Many were there to see defenseman Chris Pronger for the first time in a Flyers' uniform.
A reporter asked Snider if his team will be as tough as in past seasons and Snider sarcastically replied, "No, I've always liked softies." As a guy who always has enjoyed throwing verbal knuckleballs at the media, Snider is going to love his new "softie," Pronger, another knuckleballer who later teased the Philadelphia media as "very astute."
Pronger is thrilled by the trade that brought him in from Anaheim and believes he has another chance to win a Stanley Cup. He was looking forward to playing for the Philadelphia fans and they didn't disappoint him.
"It's good. We step on the ice in front of a capacity crowd, for this building anyway," Pronger said. "It's nice to see the support and obviously the fans are excited about the team and our prospects and a chance to see us on our first day."
Pronger was asked what he thought about Philadelphia hockey when he heard about the trade.
"The tradition of the style of play, the rough-and-tumble style of play, the Broad Street Bullies of the 70's," Pronger said. "Over the last 15-20 years, they've slowly gone away from that and now I'm here to rekindle that fire and that tradition that the organization has had and how they played and I'm excited to be a part of that.
"We want to play physical, but I think the way this team is set up, I don't think we want to give up the speed part of the game either," Pronger continued. "We want to play big, fast and strong. We want emphasis on all three. You don't want to give up the speed or tempo of the game in order to hit a couple of guys or take penalties or fight or do whatever.
"That's all going to be a by-product of how we play. We're going to get in on the forecheck fast and quick and finish our checks and create turnovers and get the puck back as quick as we can, and create some offense. As a by-product of that, there's going to be some big hits. There's going to be turnovers and fights. You know it's an emotional game and things happen. Certainly with the makeup of the team, I think we've got the makings for a very good hockey team and have a chance to go a long way."
Pronger, 35, was acquired June 26 from the Anaheim Ducks with forward Ryan Dingle for forward Joffrey Lupul, defenseman Luca Sbisa, first-round picks in 2009 and 2010, and a conditional third-round pick in 2010 or 2011.
Pronger has 142 goals, including 74 power-play goals, and 464 assists in 1,022 NHL games, and is plus-153. He also has 1,457 penalty minutes, some of the turn-your-head-away variety. At 6-foot-6 and 214 pounds, Pronger is one of the NHL's biggest, strongest men and definitely one of the hardest to play against.
He's won the Hart and Norris Trophies, made the NHL All-Rookie Team and four NHL All-Star Teams and played in five NHL All-Star Games. He won the 2007 Stanley Cup with Anaheim, a year after he led the Edmonton Oilers to a seven-game Stanley Cup Final against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Pronger finished second in the NHL last season with 26:56 minutes of average ice time. He averaged 3:55 in shorthanded ice time and 4:27 on the power play, so he's vital in all situations. He had 88 minutes in penalties last season and despite his fearsome reputation, has had only one season in excess of 100 penalty minutes in the last seven.
Pronger is in a unique situation. He broke in with the Hartford Whalers in 1993, when Flyers General Manager Paul Holmgren coached the team and Flyers Coach John Stevens was in his final NHL season.
"It's funny, as you go along in your career, I'm going into my 17th year, you run into more and more people you've played with," Pronger said. "I played with John my first year in Hartford. It's pretty funny getting a chance to go back in there. When I played in Edmonton, I had played with Charlie Huddy, who was coaching there. I played with (Flyers assistant coach) Craig Berube a number of years. So, it's always funny that way.
"John is a very intense coach. He wants to play an up-tempo style which I like. Really, he just needs some veteran leadership on the team because he's got a pretty young team. Hopefully, (fellow Flyers newcomer) Ian Laperriere and I can do that."


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What we'd normally brush off as pretty standard mainstream tech piece became comedy gold thanks to the acerbic wit of Dell's John Thode. The VP of mobile devices was discussing its companies entry into the tablet industry (all the while promoting the Mini 5, of course) and seemed to downplay Apple's iPad momentum. "It's really hard to kind of do the same thing over again twice or three times... [Apple] is going to have more competition here." A rational statement, but here's where it gets interesting: "If anybody tells you they know exactly what's going to happen here, they're either Apple, or they're smoking dope." Don't tell John, but we hear Gartner just hired the entire cast and crew of Dazed and Confused for a special analytics department.
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What about us? What about our economic future as stations? I can see that we, by working on this project, may be learning how to answer that question. We may be discovering our new business model that will offer us our own sustainable future.
Jeff Jarvis has fired the opening shot in what I think will be the most productive discussion so far in the media wars.
But I think Owens hit on it when he wrote this: "I realized I needed to flip the expense/revenue picture upside down. Instead of thinking about how to generate more cash, I needed to figure out how to create a news operation that could exist profitably based on a reasonable expectation for local online revenue."
Everyone that I have talked to recently in senior pub media roles worries that they cannot find the gross from their web operations that they need to replace their 1.0 gross.
I think they are right – it seems clear now that the web revenues cannot be grown fast enough. So the costs are out of synch. Many are reluctantly finding themselves in the same kind of death spiral that the newspapers are in. So what to do?
I don't think the Holy Grail is an attempt only to grow web based revenue. I think it is to use a new business model. The good news is that enough of this new model is now here. Our challenge is to "see" it and having "seen" it to build upon it.
So let's "see" where we are now – "see" what is emerging and "see" what can be done to implement it. Please follow me after the Jump:
Where we are now.
If we look at ourselves with outsiders eyes, we will see that we face the same problems as the papers do. Today a Public TV or radio station is a single purpose organization with dedicated staff organized to do one thing – to keep a TV/Radio station on the air. It gets its revenue by using a transactional appeal based on its content. All its costs are based on supporting this approach.
Each station is an island to itself. It has transactional relationships with other stations and with producers. It has transactional relationship with its staff as well.
As with newspapers – all of this needs to be unpacked and reassembled in a more personal way. So that it can release the power of the network effect.
What we can "see" emerging?
I observe many of the stations in the Facing the Mortgage Crisis Project, I can "see" that:
The best stations are using their reputation and trust to facilitate the strengthening of a powerful community network of partners who are all working to help the citizens of the city get through the economic crisis.
It has been the trust built up as a public broadcaster that gives them this ability. They a new role as a consequence and a new value that has NO DIRECT LINK TO its traditional CONTENT. Thousands of people who would never watch the traditional content are now attached to the station.
The relationship has expanded beyond content to include true public service.
Expanding from Content to Context – A vital aspect of this public service is to help co create the best Context for issues. Nearly all the debate in America today is lost in wrangling or in sound bites. Pub Media has come into its own with the financial crisis by not only doing a much better job of explaining what is going on but also in engaging with people where they live – in helping them help each other get through this.
Reinvention? – America will have to reinvent itself – we can all see how the health care debate is subject to the same forces that made the financial debate so fruitless. Soon energy, food, education will all come onto the table. The only way through the morass is to help people work through these issues on the ground with how they affect their lives and their communities.
What service? They are using their ability to tell stories and their ability to offer a powerful megaphone to the public. Again this ability has arisen as a product of their history as a public broadcaster. Their new relationship with the public extends therefore beyond showing them content but in showcasing the public's content about issues that are vital to them.
Part of their new value is to give voice to the voiceless – when a station does this, it attaches those people to it.
It is the web that gives the stations the space to do this and gives the people the cheap and easy tools to use to have their say.
Over time the content mix can shift from 100% professionally produced content to maybe 15% professionally produced content with most of the new being on the web. Over all a major increase in content for much less cost. Most of the new content being for and about people who are New to the Station – a much broader "audience"
They are learning to use the web to support and enhance their offering on Air – the web has given them more flexibility, more real estate and better equity – content lasts for a long time there. The web is no longer just a new form of banner advertising but is not integrated into this new Public Role. The web offers an infinite amount of choice to the public – using an invitation and curation, the station has all but limitless space to fill and can fill it at very low cost. The core new skills – Curation and Facilitation.
They are starting to see signs of the impact of this work that can be used to make the case for this new value. A new way of measuring that goes beyond eyeballs to impact. It will be a stronger case to monetize impact than only content. Using the web and a much broader view of context and content, the station can offer any supporter a precise demographic that was impossible when only the air was measured. People whose lives have been affected will attach their own identity to the station. People who have been able to contribute to issues that are vital to them because of the station will attach their identity to the station.
Being part of true "Public Service" therefore expands and deepens the connection way beyond that great content alone could ever achieve.
Their non profit status has been essential in enabling it to have this role. Being a non profit seems to have a major influence on how much you can be trusted. Many are beginning to see that much of what is news and on the media has been shaped by those that pay the bills. When the public pay the bills the fears of conflicts of interest are mitigated and trust is enhanced. Trust is the most scarce of anything today and so in the end will have the most value.
It is hard for purely commercial media organizations to compete for the hearts and minds of people in thus way – this space of True Public Service is open to Pub Media.
Most important of all they have been learning how to run themselves internally as a network and also how to facilitate groups of outside partners. This – even more than the web tools themselves is the real new value.
Group Forming will be the most valuable skill that any station will have.
We have positioned ourselves to move beyond content – beyond members – to groups that we form. Group Forming is an exponential activity that drives out the value of the Network Effect.
So what next?
Here are a number of steps that they can take that will release the value in the Network Effect:
- Help the leading institutions in their community learn what they have learned. Many important institutions in every city need to use the power of the 2.0 world to improve their ROI as well. Museums, Universities, Performing Artists etc all have to extend beyond their physical walls and a 5 day a week 9-5 time slot. Who can help them do this best? Make a real business out of this. Become the social media/relationships tutor to the institutions of your community. Help them engage their community. Help them expand their "Real Estate" beyond time and space. Help them learn how to Form Groups and realize the Network Effect.
The old Underwriting relationship is transformed to a much deeper and ongoing relationship based on working directly with each other. They become us and we them.
- Expand the Community Partnerships so that more can be done to reinvent the community. Health, Energy, Local Food, Education are all going to move into prominence. There are community partners that exist already in these areas just as they did in the Mortgage Crisis. Again help them learn and do what we are doing.
This will enable us to continue to expand our relationships with and so support from with people that normally would never watch our conventional content.
- Become the "School" for the networked world in their community – The most important new literacy and skill set of our time will be how to use the web and how to facilitate rather than direct. Who better than Pub Media Station to set up such a learning centre?
Tie the young (hence their parents too) of the community into both the station and to our other relationships. We become a vital new factor in the lives of families
- Build a web alternative to on air delivery – Many of the parts for this are ready right now. Here is a case for how and why
In effect set out deliberately to learn build and operate an off ramp where the bulk of the offering is available on the web – where public, local and national content and community involvement all take place
- Create a real Network with other nodes in pub media – Public media itself can shift from a series of entirely independent and single purpose stations in TV and Radio into a real network where many assets can be truly shared and the real power of the network effect realized. Work as a true partner with the local stations and with many other stations and producers across the system. Here the web enables much better curation and sharing of content. Here space can be leveraged as can support services.
Create regional support hubs where common services can be centred and offered out to members. Reduce overhead systemically not piece meal.
I will post more soon on a number of practical steps that flow out of these principles.


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]It's called "The Participants Ring" and once it arrives, it will have Byron Craighead's last name on it, the image of his sport (bobsled), the five Olympic rings, the host city's name "Vancouver" and the year, 2010. It will have diamonds. Craighead is not sure how many, and he is sure he doesn't mind.
The ring could have inlaid black walnuts, for all Craighead cares.
The ring is not be just a piece of jewelry. It is Craighead's scrapbook, representing not only where's he's been for the last three weeks but for the last 39 years. All Craighead needs to do is rub it, like Aladdin's Lamp, and presto, like the genie, all the memories suddenly will appear, all of them leading up to his most recent one — being the trainer for the U.S. women's and men's Olympic bobsledders, standing there at the finish line watch the four-man team win its first gold in that event in 62 years.
Craighead's Olympic Experience
"For them to ask me back, for them to trust me enough..." Craighead's voice softens.
The USOC is not known for being warm and fuzzy after someone declines an offer. Yet Craighead did just that in 2006. Craighead said no thanks, he just couldn't take two months off from his teaching at SRJC to be the U.S. bobsled trainer at the 2006 Turin Winter Games. He had done it in 2002, to be America's bobsled trainer at the Salt Lake Games, and Craighead didn't want to put the school, the students and the substitute teachers through that chaos again.
But Craighead retired in 2007. The USOC came back to him again and Craighead came back to them again with the same kind of response that he had in 2002.
"I'll give you one of my earlobes for the chance," said the Santa Rosa resident.
Why would USOC pursue Craighead? A number of reasons explain it, but none more colorfully than the story behind Craighead being called "Evel Knievel" after the famous motorcycle daredevil.
"I'm the only U.S. medical person to have ever done the two-man, four-man and skeleton," he said.
As he explained his first ride, one can understand why he is the only American medical person to have experienced all three disciplines. The year was 1993. Craighead was with the U.S. team at the Europa Cup — a preamble to the World Championships — in La Plagne, France.