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The Power of Independent Thinking
Is the U.S. Now Provoking an Arms Race in Space?
Recorded: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty designated space for peaceful purposes as the province of all mankind. Virtually all spacefaring nations now favor a new treaty to accommodate major changes in geopolitics and military technology. The United States, however, has blocked negotiations, citing potential threats to U.S. rights, capabilities, and freedom of action.
Experts: Mike MooreType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, History (International), History (U.S), Nationalism, Technology, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
Gore Vidal on Understanding Americas Terrorist Crisis
Recorded: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Filmed before a live audience on April 18, 2002, renowned author Gore Vidal rejects the blind patriotism expected by government officials and the mainstream media, and investigates U.S. foreign policy throughout recent history, showing how it has contributed to the terrorist crisis. With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the War on Terrorism is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights.
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It's pretty easy to argue that movie expert Roger Ebert was America's First Film Critic, in the sense that he was the country's most well-known and respected reviewer of cinema. Ebert passed away yesterday from complications due to cancer. Ebert and the late Gene Siskel introduced millions of Americans to thoughtful conversations about both commercial and artistic-oriented films with their Saturday afternoon television show that aired from the mid 1980's until Siskel's death in 1999. Ebert's brilliant reviews, many of which are collected in numerous books, are an excellent starting point for the novice fan of film to introduce themselves to the treasure trove of great movies. Ebert was known for his superb prose, much of which eschewed jargon and obtuse forms of critical theory. He also had a keen ability to criticize films he found intellectually stupefying or devoid of purpose with a biting sense of humor, some of which can be found below.
"The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that."
"Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way."
"Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency."
"Saving Silverman is so bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve. This is the kind of movie that gives even its defenders fits of desperation. Consider my friend James Berardinelli, the best of the Web-based critics. No doubt 10 days of oxygen deprivation at the Sundance Film Festival helped inspire his three-star review, in which he reports optimistically, 'Saving Silverman has its share of pratfalls and slapstick moments, but there's almost no flatulence.' Here's a critical rule of thumb: You know you're in trouble when you're reduced to praising a movie for its absence of fart jokes, and have to add 'almost.'"
And one of his most famous disses concerns Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. It "is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination."
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A new generation of Reverso was fitted with thinner cases. The famous triple-gadroons which had framed and enhanced the dials since 1931 were reinterpreted as double-gadroons. 1982 saw the first diamond-set versions of the Reverso. The same year, a model created for the French market used a square shape for the first time.


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A new study suggests bullying takes an academic toll on teens. GPA's dropped among high school students who say they were bullied in a survey of nearly 10,000 students in 580 schools.
Duplin County school officials attempted to combat this problem, at least on the school bus. Bullying on buses was one focus of school bus driver training in the county.
Bus drivers say bullying is different on a bus than in a classroom because drivers have their eyes on the road, and the bus is a pretty tight space.
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Thurs., Apr. 4, 8 pm • Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., 612-332-1010 or www.dakotacooks.com • With a sound that evokes comparison to Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Prince, Rahsaan Patterson has become a force in the R&B/neo-soul world. For over 15 years Patterson has released five albums, toured constantly and has collaborated with a number of soul music luminaries.
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...been a long time again...sorry! Doing ok...back is good. Knee not so much, but the allergist cleared me for the synvisc injection! Need to get approval from the insurance company now. Dropped 6 pounds the last 2 weeks, so I'm happy about ... Read more
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So, was doing pretty well with recovering from moped accident. Made it back to the gym a few times, even. Then I moved Kate back to New Paltz, to college and managed to throw my back out while cleaning/rearranging her apartment!! Had to drive... Read more
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Sorry...I mean to write more frequently...just not good at it. Anyway, I'm healing so well from the accident.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011
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So I was doing great...able to work out, for shortened lengths of time than before, but working out, nonetheless. Then I helped my son move out of his 2nd story apartment...going upstairs wasn't too bad, but going down, especially while carryin... Read more
Monday, July 25, 2011
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I swam in a lake for 20 minutes yesterday, with almost no pain! Today I'm going to go to the gym and try a gentle workout! I'm so happy to be healing as well as I am! My accident was 2 weeks ago today. I've made tremendous progress! My knee... Read more
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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...that's how long the doctor thinks it will take for me to make a full recovery. Once the wounds (scabs) have healed, I can start swimming for exercise. And when I can stand it, going easily on the elliptical again. It could have been MUCH w... Read more
Sunday, July 17, 2011
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...I had a moped accident a week ago. I'm in a knee imobilizer and on pain meds. I go for an ortho appointment tomorrow morning. The meds make me a bit weepy and I'm very impatient to get back up and around. I'm trying to listen to my body a... Read more
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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...it's been a long while, so I thought I'd drop a quick note...still hanging in there...still struggling with knee issues...still working with Echelle and journaling food and exercise. Still wearing 8's and 10's with a goal of 6 eventually. M... Read more
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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It's been a long while since an update...because there's not a lot going on. My knee is still troublesome, I'm working out when it allows me to. My next appointment (rhumatology) is in a week. Because I've been doing more weight lifting while... Read more
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Echelle suggested increasing weights and reducing sets from 4 to 2...so I did...increased weights by 5 pounds and decreased to 2 sets...feel exhausted today! Can't wait to see/feel results!... Read more
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So I blogged that I ran a couple of times on the treadmill, with minimal pain. Well, I got all cocky and decided to run a 5K...on pavement. Not my brightest idea. This was Saturday morning I ran. I'm still paying for it. I will not be runni... Read more
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
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Not fast. Not far. But on Monday, I ran a mile, nonstop, on the elliptical in 13:20. My knee has been bothering me a bit and nothing seemed to make it better...here I was NOT doing all the things I want to do to keep it from hurting and it wa... Read more
Friday, April 29, 2011
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Weather got in the way and rivals Sussex Tech and Sussex Central had to wait a few days to clash on the gridiron. Though, in a battle between an undefeated Ravens team and a struggling Golden Knights squad, the two did not disappoint. In the end, Tech prevailed, 19-7.
Food Lion will celebrate the opening of its newest store, located at 22954 Sussex Highway in Seaford on Oct. 7. The new store will open to the public at 8 a.m. after a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The Georgetown Police Department recently started its first cadet program, with two cadets, Jessica Rivera and Israel Gonzalez, currently criminal justice majors at Delaware Tech's Owens Campus.
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Cooper Power Systems and Itron Announce Availability of CENTRON II Meter with Integrated Power Line Carrier Communications
Cooper Power Systems and Itron built on the foundation of their longtime working relationship to streamline the development effort for this offering – incorporating enhanced metrology and display capabilities as well as optional remote disconnect for utility customers.
"Utility customers have long used the proven and mature CENTRON meter for their residential metering needs and through true collaboration with Itron, Cooper Power Systems can now offer utility customers more choices when it comes to meters," said Mark Thurman, president, Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE). "Cooper Power Systems is one of the first smart grid technology vendors to release integrated communications on the Itron metering platform—a clear indication of our leadership in offering multi-vendor meter solutions and ability to deliver on our customers' expectations to embrace new technology."
"Our collaboration with Cooper Power Systems and the resulting integrated product exemplify Itron's commitment to giving our customers a variety of deployment choices to meet their specific needs," stated Mark deVere-White, senior vice president of Itron Energy Group in North America and Latin America. "The adaptable CENTRON II meter offers the best in metering technology, including accuracy, reliability and serviceability. With the integrated Cooper Power Systems PLC communications, the CENTRON II provides the perfect platform to meet current and future business needs, with applications ranging from standard metering to smart grid initiatives."
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Cooper Power Systems, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), and a global manufacturer and provider of world-class power delivery apparatus and solutions for the utility, commercial, and industrial markets. The company maintains a complete portfolio of products and services required to transform, protect, connect, and build out an electric power system backbone. Smart apparatus – voltage regulators, capacitors, reclosers, switchgear, smart sensors, and controls – integrated with enterprise level software and secure communications enable customers to increase productivity, optimize asset efficiency, improve system reliability, and reduce costs. Reliability and grid-point solutions include: Integrated Volt/Var Control (IVVC), feeder, and substation automation systems. End-point solutions include: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Demand Response (DR). The company is a leading provider of engineering optimization and modeling tools. For more information, please visit www.cooperpower.com.
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Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion. Founded in 1833 Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2011 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2011. For more information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.
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Itron is a leading provider of energy and water resource management solutions for nearly 8,000 utilities around the world. We offer end-to-end solutions that include electricity, gas, water and heat measurement and control technology; communications systems; software; and professional services. With more than 9,000 employees doing business in more than 130 countries, Itron empowers utilities to responsibly and efficiently manage energy and water resources. To realize a sustainable future, start here: www.itron.com.


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Cristadur 33" Drop In Single Basin Kitchen Sink with Antibac
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Bold, extra large bowl blends commercial efficiency with residential sensibilities. Antibac, this natural antibacterial hygienic protection system inhibits approximately 95% of bacterial growth which makes doing kitchen chores a more hygienic and carefree experience. Dirt that could be a breeding ground for bacteria finds it almost impossible to stick to the material surface. This premium material has an ultra-fine structure, resulting in unprecedented ease of care and featuring a dirt repellent effect (the dirt simply runs off). CRISTADUR is silky smooth and wonderfully soft to the touch while offering maximum resistance to dirt and scratches. All sinks are color fast throughout ensuring no fading or discoloration. Schock-Houzer sinks are three times harder than natural granite and provide the highest resistance to thermal shock, scratches and chips. The sound absorption reduces the noise of your dishware and disposal creating a more pleasant kitchen atmosphere. All Schock-Houzer sinks come with a Lifetime limited warranty. 33-Inch x 20-7/8-Inch overall, 9-1/2-Inch Depth, Pre-scored up to 5 holes. Our newest selection, Schock-Houzer granite sinks, offers 13 wonderful colors, the widest color assortment available today and in two proprietary breakthrough materials, CRISTALITE+ and CRISTADUR, only found on Schock-Houzer granite sinks. Both materials were developed by Schock, GmbH, the German manufacturer that invented the granite sink more than 30 years ago. Approximately 75% of the nearly 2 million granite sinks produced annually are manufactured with the Schock proprietary method, underling the company's international leading position in sink technology.
Cristadur - Feel the difference. In addition to all of the positive attributes of Cristalite+, the premium Cristadur material has an ultra-fine structure, resulting in unprecedented ease of care and featuring a dirt repellent effect (the dirt simply runs off). Dirt that could be a breeding ground for bacteria finds it impossible to stick to the material's surface. It simply runs off. An added benefit of Cristadur is its silky-smooth finish - it's wonderfully soft to the touch while offering maximum resistance to dirt and scratches.
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- Width: 33"
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Graduate Bulletin 2013-2015 » Academic Programs and Courses » Health Sciences » Courses in Nutrition » DFN 641: Public Health and Community Nutrition.
DFN 641: Public Health and Community Nutrition.
3 hours, 3 credits. The relationship of diet to health promotion and disease prevention. The role of public, private, and voluntary organizations in providing nutrition-care services for ambulatory populations. Techniques for developing, funding, implementing, and evaluating projects in the community. PREREQ: DFN 43 or 620, or their equivalents.
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May 6, 2016
Three Vidant Health Hospitals have been included among the top hospitals in the state by Business North Carolina magazine.
Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, Vidant Chowan Hospital in Edenton and Vidant Edgecombe Hospital in Tarboro were included in four lists of top hospitals in the state in the magazine's March edition.
Business North Carolina ranked Vidant Medical Center 21st in the state overall.
The rankings were based on data from Medicare and Medicaid, North Carolina Hospital Association and other sources for criteria that considered patient satisfaction.
Another listing entitled "cutting-edge hospitals" cited Vidant Medical Center for its work in quality and expertise in the delivery of specialized bariatric surgery.
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The ACTH stimulation test measures how well the adrenal glands respond to adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). ACTH is a hormone produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal glands to release a hormone called cortisol. The man-made form of ACTH is called cosyntropin.
Tests of adrenal reserve; Cortrosyn stimulation test
The test is done the following way:
Along with the blood tests, you may also have a urine cortisol test or urine 17-ketosteroids test, which involves collecting the urine over a 24-hour period.
You may need to limit activities and eat foods that are high in carbohydrates 12 to 24 hours before the test. You may be asked to fast for 6 hours before the test. Sometimes, no special preparation is needed.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain. Others feel only a prick or stinging. Afterward, there may be some throbbing or slight bruising. This soon goes away.
This test can help determine whether your adrenal and pituitary glands are normal. It is most often used when the doctor thinks you have an adrenal gland problem, such as Addison disease or pituitary insufficiency.
An increase in cortisol after stimulation by ACTH is normal. Cortisol level after ACTH stimulation should be higher than 18 to 20 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL), depending on the dose of cosyntropin used.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or may test different specimens. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
This test is helpful in finding out if you have:
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Guber HA, Farag AF. Evaluation of endocrine function. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 24.
Schroeder E, Wang CCL. Adrenal insufficiency. In: McDermott MT, ed. Endocrine Secrets. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:chap 30.
Stewart PM, Krone NP. The adrenal cortex. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, eds. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011: chap 15.
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Yes they did, yet they ended with 38 fewer seats than the Republicans in the House! How? Well, in a process that would make even top Tory strategist Gerry Mander blush, Congressional Redistricting allows partisan redrawing of electoral boundaries after a census. It would seem that the Republicans made the most of the fact that they controlled the process in a lot more places than the Democrats.
Both sides gerrymander - often with the tacit agreement of the other so they can continue to harvest safe seats.


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Boston Magazine awarded them "Best Clam Chowder." The Boston People's Choice Awards declared them "Best Seafood Restaurant." Simply put, Chef Armand Toutaint is a bona fide expert when it comes to serving up fish, shellfish, and the like. So when Turner Fisheries offered to share this clambake recipe – which, mind you, doesn't require a beach – we most definitely took them up on it (and you should, too).
Turner Fisheries Clambake
Serves 1
1½-pound lobster
3 littleneck clams
5 mussels
3 fingerling potatoes, blanched and cut in half
1 tablespoon fresh corn kernels
¼ teaspoon chopped garlic
¼ teaspoon chopped shallots
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon white wine
¼ cup vegetable stock
1 teaspoon butter
½ teaspoon parsley, chopped
Salt and pepper
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
2. Add lobster to boiling water and cook for 7 to 8 minutes.
3. While lobster is cooking, sauté potatoes, corn, and littleneck clams with garlic and shallots in oil, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
4. When potatoes are nicely browned, add mussels, white wine, and vegetable stock to sauté pan and cover to steam. Once clams open, add butter and parsley, adjust seasoning, and arrange in bowl.
5. When lobster is cooked, cut tail in half, crack open claws and knuckles, brush with butter, and add to bowl.
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At the moment I'm making a level-lines map. The objective is more than to give a exact terrain altitude information in each point as could give a topographical chart in 1:50.000 by example, to get a map-background that gives the reader an general idea of the relief without take the eyes off the main map-personality, as the History in this case. This background, of course, would be employed in the preparation of many maps changing only the relief changes throughtout history. The size is more or less for A4.
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Relax andresbayona14. Remember, just because it shows up on the Razzie message boards, that doesn't mean it will "win" anything. These boards are just for feedback. Chances are even if this movies gets as far as a nod for Worst Remake, it won't win. It's under consideration and nothing more. As HeadRazz has said many times before, only a small handfull of movies out of the 100+ movies discussed here get nods and an even smaller amount actually "win".
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I might see this Thursday. I have a Staff Day then and my mom has the day off from the hospital.
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I saw this movie on Sunday, here's my quick rundown on it. If you can ignore Jenifer Carpenter's horribly over the top performance then the movie itself is actually not bad. It has plenty of tense and suspenseful moments, as well as a lot of those "jump" moments. The camera POV actually works pretty well, although like Cloverfield, the beginning is pretty boring and it will probably loses some of it's appeal on repeated viewing.
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My friend saw it a few weeks ago. He said the plot was stupid and the acting was lame. Also, he got motion sickness from the camera shaking all over the place.
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I keep on hearing how bad Jennifer Carpenter which is too bad because she was good in Emily Rose and Dexter. Maybe she needs a Razzie Nomination? Its not like there is much competition.
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A remake of the 2007 Spanish film REC, QUARANTINE chronicles the outbreak of a rabies-like disease in a Los Angeles apartment building and the struggle of the unaffected residents to stay alive after the authorities trap them inside in an effort to contain it...all through the lens of a news camera.
I am quite a fan of REC. That film was one of the scariest films I've seen in a LONG TIME and I do really mean that. I don't usually say that phrase a lot. Of course, Hollywood bought the rights and decided to remake the film. Remakes, in general, don't bother me. I tend to score most remakes around a 5 because I think they were decent and nowhere near as bad as fans of the originals make it out to be.
Anyway, getting right to the point, I think QUARANTINE serves the original film well, comparing to other remakes. There's no doubt that those who haven't seen the original will get more of a kick of it than when I saw the film because I knew what was going to happen. Saying that, this film does manage to bring some shocks and scares because of the change in situations. I was surprised when people say that this film is a shot for shot remake because it really wasn't.
QUARANTINE is like REC, yes, recopying the essential scenes from the original, like the ending. HOWEVER, QUARANTINE is REC with different situations. Other than the basic plot outline, QUARANTINE presents different situations than the ones in REC. For example, there are now cellphones, an elevator, and even a substantially bigger cast! And I like that. There were some additions that I thought were better than the original film. One thing I complained about in the original was the explanation of the disease. In this one, it's much more realistic.
There are also some suspenseful scenes as well, not surprisingly, including the last ten minutes of the film. Now that was scary. Even though it was an outright copy from the original, the last few minutes are very unnerving. As for the performances, Jennifer Carpenter did a fantastic job playing the character who mentally breaks down really well. Other than that, most of the cast members were actually pretty bad in this. Some exceptions include an opera teacher and his prodigal student, new characters that were not in the original film.
In terms of story, I prefer QUARANTINE because I liked the situations, which I can relate more to than the ones presented in REC. I also loved the Gothic-style production design, another thing I found to be superior in this film. However, in terms of suspense and scariness, that would go to REC. REC builds the tension so well, unlike this film, where the scares are sporadic. I don't know what to say to the fans of the original. Sure, the remake was unnecessary but I thought the film was good. As for those who haven't seen the original, watch the original first and then see the remake. 7/10
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Whatever happened to the agreement that "out of 10 rating are too high"? If the movie was given 3 out of 5, that I could understand, but 7 out of 10, again with the overhyping.
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Investigators say a back room and shed were used to either make the drug or use it and that's not all they found.
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Atkinson was able to get away from deputies after jumping out of a back window and then headed toward the swamp.
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The GBI assisted the Burke County Sheriff's Office, confirming that meth was being made inside the house. And outside, there were shovels on the ground. Investigators don't know if these were used for the alleged grave robbery, but they did say they find other suspicious tools.
"Numerous flashlights. Backpacks which appear to be covered with dirt. So, he's been doing this for a while," Lowe said.
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Dichotic stimulation is a form of auditory stimulation in which different sounds are presented to each ear simultaneously.
In cognitive psychology and neuroscience, dichotic listening is a procedure commonly used to investigate selective attention in the auditory system. More specifically, it is "used as a behavioral test for hemispheric lateralization of speech sound perception."[1] During a standard dichotic listening test, a participant is simultaneously presented with two different auditory stimuli (usually speech) separately to each ear over headphones.[2] Participants are asked to distinguish/identify one or (in a divided-attention experiment) both of the stimuli. Later, they may be asked about the content of either message.
In a selective attention experiment, the participant may be asked to repeat aloud the content of the attended message, a task known as shadowing. As Colin Cherry (1953)[3] found, people recall the shadowed message poorly, suggesting that most of the processing necessary to shadow the attended message occurs in working memory and is not preserved in the long-term store. Performance on the unattended message is, of course, much worse. Participants are generally able to report almost nothing about the content of the unattended message. In fact, a change from English to German in the unattended channel usually goes unnoticed. However, participants are able to report that the unattended message is speech rather than non-verbal content. In addition to this, if the content of the unattended message contains certain information, such as the listener's name, then the unattended message is likely to be noticed and remembered.[4] Also if the message contains sexual words then people usually notice them immediately.[5] This suggests that the unattended information is also undergoing analysis and keywords can divert out attention to it.
During the early 1970s, Tim Rand [1] demonstrated dichotic perception at Haskins Laboratories.[6] In his study, the first formant (F1) was presented to one ear while the second (F2) and third (F3) formants were presented to the other ear. F2 and F3 varied in low and high intensity. Ultimately, in comparison to the binaural condition, "peripheral masking is avoided when speech is heard dichotically."[6] This demonstration was originally known as "the Rand effect" but was subsequently renamed as "dichotic release from masking" to "dichotic perception" or "dichotic listening." Similarly, around the same time, another investigator at Haskins Laboratories, Jim Cutting (1976),[7] investigated how listeners could correctly identify syllables when different components of the syllable were presented to different ears. The formants of vowel sounds and their relation are crucial in differentiating vowel sounds. That being said, even though the listeners heard two separate signals (no ear received a 'complete' vowel sound), they could still identify the syllable sounds.
Dichotic listening can also be used to test the hemispheric asymmetry of a cognitive function such as language processing. In the early 60s, Doreen Kimura reported that dichotically presented verbal stimuli (specifically spoken numerals) presented to a participant produced a right ear advantage (REA).[8] She attributed the right-ear advantage "to the localization of speech and language processing in the so-called dominant left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex." [9] According to her study, this phenomenon was related to the structure of the auditory nerves and the left-sided dominance for language processing.[10] It is important to note that REA doesn't apply to non-speech sounds. What is more is in "Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Perception," Studdert-Kennedy and Shankweiler (1970)[11] examine dichotic listening of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) syllable pairs. The six stop consonants (b, d, g, p, t, k) are paired with the six vowels and a variation in the initial and terminal consonants are analyzed. REA is the strongest when the sound differs for the initial consonant and it is the weakest when the vowel experiences the variation. Asbjornsen and Bryden (1996) state that "many researchers have chosen to use consonant-vowel (CV) syllable pairs, usually consisting of the six stop consonants paired with the vowel \a\. Over the years, a large amount of data has been generated using such material." [12]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Donald Shankweiler [2] and Michael Studdert-Kennedy [3] of Haskins Laboratories used a dichotic listening technique (presenting different nonsense syllables simultaneously to opposite ears) to demonstrate the dissociation of phonetic (speech) and auditory (nonspeech) perception by finding that phonetic structure devoid of meaning is an integral part of language and is typically processed in the left cerebral hemisphere.[13][14][15] A dichotic listening performance advantage for one ear is interpreted as indicating a processing advantage in the contralateral hemisphere. In another example, Sidtis (1981)[16] found that healthy adults have a left-ear advantage on a dichotic pitch recognition experiment. He interpreted this result as indicating right-hemisphere dominance for pitch discrimination.
Since dichotic listening can be used as a lateralized speech assessment task, neuropsychologists have utilized the technique to explore the role of singular neuroanatomical structures in speech perception and language asymmetry. For example, Hugdahl et al. (2003), investigated dichotic listening performance and frontal lobe function[17] in left and right lesioned frontal lobe nonaphasiac patients compared to healthy controls. In the study, all groups were exposed to 36 dichotic trials with pairs of CV (consonant-vowel) syllables and each patient was asked to state which syllable he or she heard best. As expected, the right lesioned patients showed a right ear advantage like the healthy control group but the left hemisphere patients displayed impairment when compared to both the right lesioned patients and control group. From this study, researchers concluded "dichotic listening as into a neuronal circuitry which also invoves the frontal lobes, and that this may be a critical aspect of speech perception." [17] Similarly, Westerhausen and Hugdahl (2008) [18] analyzed the role of the corpus callosum in dichotic listening and speech perception. After reviewing many studies, it was concluded that "...dichotic listening should be considered a test of functional inter-hemispheric interaction and connectivity, besides being a test of lateralized temporal lobe language function" and "the corpus callosum is critically involved in the top-down attentional control of dichotic listening performance, thus having a critical role in auditory laterality." [18]
Studies in different populations
Sex differences
Additionally, dichotic listening has revealed a possible small-population sex difference in perceptual and auditory asymmetries and language laterity. According to Voyer (2011),[19] "Dichotic listening tasks produced homogenous effect sizes regardless of task type (verbal, non-verbal), reflecting a significant sex difference in the magnitude of laterality effects, with men obtaining larger laterality effects than women."[20] However, the authors discuss numerous limiting factors ranging from publication bias to small effect size. Furthermore, as discussed in "Attention, reliability, and validity of perceptual asymmetries in the fused dichotic words test,"[21] women reported more "intrusions" or words presented to the uncued ear than men when presented with exogenous cues in the Fused Dichotic Word Task which suggests two possibilities: 1) Women experience more difficulty paying attention to the cued word than men and/or 2) regardless of the cue, women spread their attention evenly as opposed to men who may possibly focus in more intently on exogenous cues.[19]
In schizophrenia
A study conducted involving the dichotic listening test,[22] with emphasis on subtypes of schizophrenia (particularly paranoid and undifferentiated), demonstrated that people with Paranoid Schizophrenia have the largest left hemisphere advantage - with undifferentiated schizophrenics (where psychotic symptoms are present but the criteria for paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic types have not been met) having the smallest. The application of the dichotic listening test helped to further the beliefs that preserved left hemisphere processing is a product of paranoid schizophrenia, and in contrast, that the left hemisphere's lack of activity is a symptom of undifferentiated schizophrenia.
The "Dichotic Fused Words Test" (DFWT) is a modified version of the dichotic listening test. It was originally explored by Johnson et al. (1977)[23] but in the early 80's Wexler and Hawles (1983)[24] modified the test to ascertain more accurate data for hemispheric specialization of language function. In the DFWT, a participant is presented with pairs of monosyllabic rhymed CVC words and each word varies in the initial consonant. The significant difference in this test is "the stimuli are constructed and aligned in such a way that partial interaural fusion occurs: subjects generally experience and report only one stimulus per trial." [25] According to Zatorre (1989), some major advantages of this method include but are not limited to "minimizing attentional factors, since the percept is unitary and localized to the midline" and "stimulus dominance effects may be explicitly calculated, and their influence on ear asymmetries assessed and eliminated."[25] Thus, it is no surprise that Wexler and Hawles obtained a high test-retest reliability (r=0.85) in their study.[24]
There is an emotional version of the dichotic listening task in which individuals listen to the same word in each ear but they hear it in either a surprised, happy, sad, angry, or neutral tone. They are then asked to press a button indicating what tone they heard. Normally dichotic listening tests show a right-ear advantage for speech sounds, specifically for those with stop constants. This right-ear/left-hemisphere advantage is expected, as we have evidence of Broca's area and Wernicke's area, both located in the left hemisphere. In contrast, the left ear (and therefore the right hemisphere) is often better at processing nonlinguistic material.[26] The emotional dichotic listening task is consistent with these other studies, as individuals who perform this task tend to have more correct responses to their left ear than to the right.[27] It is important to note that the emotional dichotic listening task is seemingly harder than the phonemic dichotic listening task, eliciting more incorrect responses overall.
Variations in procedure
The manipulation of voice onset time (VOT) during dichotic listening has provided novel insights regarding brain function.[28] To date, the most common design is the utilisation of four VOT conditions: short-long pairs (SL), where a CV syllable with a short VOT is presented to the left ear and a CV syllable with a long VOT is presented to the right ear, as well as long-short (LS), short-short (SS) and long-long (LL) pairs. In 2006, Rimol, Eichele, and Hugdahl [29] first reported that in healthy adults SL pairs elicit the largest REA while, in fact, LS pairs elicit a significant left ear advantage (LEA). A study of children aged 5–8 years of age has shown a developmental trajectory whereby long VOTs gradually start to dominate over short VOTs when LS pairs are being presented under dichotic conditions.[30] Converging evidence from studies of attentional modulation of the VOT effect shows that at around 9 years of age children lack the adult-like cognitive flexibility required to exert top-down control over stimulus-driven bottom-up processes.[31][32] Arciuli et al.(2010) further demonstrated that this kind of cognitive flexibility is a predictor of proficiency with complex tasks such as reading.
For further details about dichotic listening in neuropsychology, see K. Hugdahl (Ed.): Handbook of Dichotic Listening. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1988.
See also
- Active listening
- Dichoptic stimulation Presentation of different visual stimulus to each eye
- Dichotic pitch
- Source separation
- ↑ Ingram, John C. L. (2007). Neurolinguistics : an introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders, 1. publ., 3. print., 381, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Ingram, John C. L. (2007). Neurolinguistics : an introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders, 1. publ., 3. print., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Cherry, E. C. (1953). Some experiments on the recognition of speech, with one and two ears. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 25, pp. 975–979.
- ↑ Moray, N. (1959), Attention in dichotic listening: Affective cues and the influence of instructions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 11, 56-60.
- ↑ Nielson, L. L., and Sarason, I. G. (1981). Emotion, personality, and selective attention. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 945-960.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rand, T. C. (1974). Dichotic release from masking for speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 55, 678-680.
- ↑ Cutting, J. E. (1976). Auditory and linguistic processes in speech perception: inferences from six fusions in dichotic listening. Psychological Review 83, pp. 114–140.
- ↑ Kimura, D (1961). Cerebral dominance and the perception of verbal stimuli. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 15, 166-171
- ↑ Ingram, John C. L. (2007). Neurolinguistics : an introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders, 1. publ., 3. print., 115, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Kimura, D. (1967). Functional asymmetry of the brain in dichotic listening. Cortex, 3, 163-178
- ↑ Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Donald Shankweiler (August 1970 1970). Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 48 (2): 579–594.
- ↑ Asbjornsen, Arve, M.P. Bryden (1996). Biased attention and the fused dichotic words test. Neuropsychologia 34 (5): 407.
- ↑ Studdert-Kennedy, M., & Shankweiler, D. P. (1970). Hemispheric specialization for speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 48, 579-594.
- ↑ Studdert-Kennedy, M., Shankweiler, D., & Schulman, S. (1970). Opposed effects of a delayed channel on perception of dichotically and monotically presented CV syllables. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 48, 599-602.
- ↑ Studdert-Kennedy, M., Shankweiler, D., & Pisoni, D. (1972). Auditory and phonetic processes in speech perception: Evidence from a dichotic study. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2, 455-466.
- ↑ Sidtis, J. J. (1981). The complex tone test: Implications for the assessment of auditory laterality effects. Neuropsychologia 19, pp. 103–112.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Hugdahl, Kenneth (2003). Dichotic Listening Performance and Frontal Lobe Function. Thomas Bodner, Elisabeth Weiss, Thomas Benke 16: 58–65.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Westerhausen, Rene, Kenneth Hugdahl (2008). The corpus callosum in dichotic listening studies of hemispheric asymmetry: A review of clinical and experimental evidence. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 32: 1044–1054.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Voyer, Daniel (2011). Sex differences in dichotic listening. Brain and Cognition 76: 245–255.
- ↑ Voyer, Daniel (2011). Sex differences in dichotic listening. Brain and Cognition 76: 245–246.
- ↑ Voyer, Daniel, Jennifer Ingram (2005). Attention, reliability, and validity of perceptual asymmetries in the fused dichotic word test. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition 6: 545–561.
- ↑ Michelle S. Friedman, M.A.(2001). Perceptual Asymmetries in Schizophrenia: Subtype Differences in Left Hemisphere Dominance for Dichotic Fused Words. <http://psychophysiology.cpmc.columbia.edu/pdf/friedman2001a.pdf
- ↑ Johnson et al (1977). Dichotic ear preference in aphasia. J. Speech Hear Res 20: 116–129.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Wexler, Bruce, Terry Hawles (1983). Increasing the power of dichotic methods: the fused rhymed words test. Neuropsychologia 21.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Zatorre, Robert (1989). Perceptual asymmetry on the dichotic fused words test and cerebral speech lateralization determined by the caroid sodium amytal test. Neuropsychologia 27 (10).
- ↑ Grimshaw et al (2003). {{{title}}}. Neuropsychologia 41.
- ↑ Hahn, Constanze Smoking reduces language lateralization: A dichotic listening study with control participants and schizophrenia patients. Journal.
- ↑ Arciuli J (July 2011). Manipulation of voice onset time during dichotic listening. Brain Cogn 76 (2): 233–8.
- ↑ Rimol, L.M., Eichele, T., Hugdahl, K. (2006). The effect of voice-onset-time on dichotic listening with consonant-vowel syllables. Neuropsychologia. 44(2): 191–196.
- ↑ Westerhausen, R., Helland, T., Ofte, S., Hugdahl, K. (2010). A longitudinal study of the effect of voicing on the dichotic listening ear advantage in boys and girls at age 5 to 8.. Dev Neuropsychol. 35(6): ):752–761.
- ↑ Andersson, M., Llera, J.E., Rimol, L.M., Hugdahl, K. (2008). Using dichotic listening to study bottom-up and top-down processing in children and adults.. Child Neuropsychol. 14(5): 470–479.
- ↑ Arciuli, J., Rankine, T., Monaghan, P. (2010). Auditory discrimination of voice-onset time and its relationship with reading ability.. Laterality. 15(3): 343–360.
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While their numbers have declined over the last decade, Maine's unions continue to be a force to be reckoned with for politicans, business leaders and public policy makers. The Maine AFL-CIO held is holding its 29th biennial convention in Bangor over the next two days and is focusing on ways to grow membership and maximize its clout in next year's governor's race. A. J. Higgins reports.
At a time when the national percentage of workers represented by collective bargaining agreements has dropped from 11.8 percent to 11.3 percent, Maine's 64,000 unionized employees are holding their own. In fact, Maine saw a slight increase in its share of union workers last year, from 11.3 percent to 11.5 percent.
Matt Schlobohm, president of the Maine AFL-CIO, says things are looking up for organized labor in Maine.
"I think what's important is that workers start to organize in larger and larger numbers," Schlobohm says. 'I think that ball is moving in the right direction, and we'd like to see it move faster and bigger. And I think work is being done to help that happen."
Next week, the Maine Labor Relations Board will meet to consider aspects of a plan by municipal employees in the town of Warrne to unionize, and earlier this year, the Oxford County Deputy Association opted to be represented by the Teamsters. Even independent-minded Maine lobstermen are organizing, an example of how collective bargaining has spread to occupations that have, up to now, gone unrepresented.
Carol Sanborn is among the 20 paralegals at the Topsham law firm of McTeague, Higbee who joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers this year. Ironically, the firm specializes in labor law and represents the very same union. Sanborn says that's made organizing the office a somewhat delicate matter.
"We needed to choose our affiliation very carefully," she says. "We needed to have people helping us who had a high degree of integrity, so that our position would not be compromised at any point in the process. It was a rather delicate situation because, again, it was a client or affiliation going against its own lawyers."
But Sanborn says the relationship is working out well for all parties at the firm, and union officials say that message of collaboration is one they wish to build on in the year ahead as Maine prepares for its next gubernatorial election.
Cokie Giles, of the 2,000-member Maine State Nurses Association, says Mainers have never had a clearer choice between the two major parties this year. Incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage was manager of Marden's Surplus and Salvage in Maine, while Democratic challenger Mike Michaud is a former union fork lift operator at what was once the Great Northern Paper Co.
Michaud is on the AFL-CIO's schedule for both days, and has been endorsed by the 10,000-member Maine State Employees Association. Giles says it's clear why Michaud has union support.
"Mike Michaud - I feel he truly cares about people," Giles says. "I don't really understand Gov. LePage. I don't understand what he says, the way he says it, and the complete lack of any sort of compassion to the rest of the people in Maine."
Despite numbers that show unions holding their own in Maine, Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce CEO Chris Hall says that support comes from public sector workers. He says Maine's private sector - particularly small businesses -continue to find no need for unions.
"That's the just the reality," Hall says. "I think about all the job growth that's occuring in this region, I don't know that any of it's unionized. I really don't."
While Maine's percentage of unionized workers remains constant on a year-to-year basis at 11.5 percent, it has declined over the last dozen years, when nearly 14 percent of all of the state's workers were affiliated with a union.
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The South Grand River Watershed occupies a land area of approximately 2,046 square miles in portions of 8 counties in Missouri and 2 Counties in Kansas (Figure Lo01). These counties include Bates, Benton, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Pettis, and St. Clair Counties in Missouri and Johnson and Miami in Kansas. Most of the watershed (98.5%) lies within Missouri (The portion of the watershed occurring in Kansas is not addressed in this document except where otherwise noted). The watershed is bounded to the West and Southwest by the Maries des Cygnes Watershed and to the South and East by the Upper Osage Watershed both of which have been combined as the West Osage Basin in the West Osage Basin Inventory and Management Plan (MDC 1997). The Lamine and Blackwater Watersheds border the South Grand on the northeast side while the Missouri River main stem Drainage borders the watershed to the north.
The South Grand River is formed by the confluence of Massey Creek and East Creek approximately 5 miles southwest of Peculiar, Missouri. From its beginnings, the river flows in a southeasterly direction for approximately 28 miles before turning to flow east for another 16 miles. It once again turns to a southeasterly direction and continues for another 9 miles before receiving the flow of Big Creek, the largest tributary to the South Grand. From this point, the South Grand continues in a general southeast direction for approximately 14 miles before emptying into Harry S. Truman Reservoir near Clinton, Missouri. Approximately 62 original miles of the South Grand River have been impounded by Truman Reservoir (MDNR 1986). Prior to impoundment, the South Grand emptied into the Osage River 2.25 miles northwest of Warsaw, Missouri. There are two fifth order streams in the watershed which were once tributaries to the South Grand River, however they now flow into Truman Reservoir. These are Deepwater Creek and Tebo Creek.
Truman Reservoir, the largest impoundment in the South Grand River Watershed, impounds approximately 55,600 surface acres of water at the top of the multipurpose pool (USACOE 2002). Approximately 42% of Truman Reservoir, which also receives inflow from the Osage, Sac, and Pomme de Terre Rivers, is within the South Grand River Watershed.
The South Grand River Watershed has 13 cities and towns with populations exceeding 1,000 persons within or partially within its boundary. These included Adrian, Belton, Clinton, Garden City, Greenwood, Harrisonville, Holden, Kansas City, Lee's Summit, Peculiar, Pleasant Hill, Raymor, and Windsor. All of these are within Missouri.
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There are countless families in the world who are desperately trying to have a baby, but struggle for any number of reasons. One of the increasingly more common reasons in the modern family is the age of the mother when its time to conceive. Older mothers have had an opportunity to build their career and experience the world, but unfortunately their eggs have aged along with them. Younger women have the opportunity to help build the family they want while making a bit of money for the time and effort spent.
Become an Egg Donor
Becoming an egg donor is not often mentioned in social circles, but donating eggs to friends, family or strangers is becoming more common as science advances and more families start at later ages. Women who are unable to use their own eggs or struggle getting pregnant sometimes turn to younger women whose eggs are younger and healthier for a donation. The donated eggs are then fertilized with the partner's sperm and implanted to begin a pregnancy.
The Egg Donation Process
Donating eggs is more complicated than donating sperm. Women release a egg from their ovary once every menstrual cycle, usually once a month. That egg travels to the uterus, waits to become fertilized and then leaves the body if it is not fertilized. Unlike men who can technically produce sperm until they die, women are born with a set number of eggs and those eggs age and are used overtime. At a point after the thirties, the likelihood of releasing a healthy egg that is ready to be fertilized and grow diminishes. This is why these women need your younger, healthier eggs.
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I rated myself as a pretty fair singer right up to the indelible instant when I heard my naked voice, the protective filter of accompaniment by actual musicians stripped away.
For some years previous I had often amused myself, as I suspect most people do, by crooning along with the stereo while I was driving alone.
Which is about as realistic as playing Tiger Woods golf on a Wii.
Harmonizing with Lennon and McCartney, suffice it to say, ranks on the difficulty scale right beside bisecting the fairway with a 300-yard drive.
(Although Tiger isn't staying on the short grass all that often these days, either.)
One day, for some reason I've forgotten (although a reason no doubt spawned by the same hormone that leads high school students to use Bunson burners for unorthodox purposes), I decided to try what you might call an experiment in a cappella.
What resulted was a sort of auditory shock treatment that cured my naivete, as regards my lyrical ability, instantly and irrevocably.
While I was belting out the chorus to some '80s anthem — I think it was Night Ranger's "Sister Christian," although possibly it was "The Final Countdown" by Europe — I punched the radio's "off" button.I thought at first that the fan belt had partially slipped off its pully.
Either that or I had struck some sort of large bird and inflicted on it a grievous, but not immediately fatal, injury.
I would describe my voice as off-key, except that implies I was on some key, just the wrong one.
The word "tuneless" comes closer to the truth, as it melds the flavor of "hopeless" with a hint of the kind of atonal wail the government uses to alert citizens when tornadoes or flash floods are nearby.
I glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw that my cheeks had gone red, as though I had just been summoned to the chalkboard in algebra class to solve an equation which I couldn't have deciphered even with the mathematical equivalent of the Rosetta stone.
Anyway, that's one way to realize that you're a lousy singer.
I was reminded recently of another method that's equally effective but considerably more pleasant to the ear.
(And less embarrassing.)
Go listen to singers who actually have control of their larynxes.
I attended opening night of the Musical Memories Revue, a performance put on by Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre.
I listened to a group of talented local residents sing a couple dozen popular tunes spanning the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
The cast: Kelly Brickman, Lynne Burroughs, John Fast, Julie Fuzi, Mike Braymen, Mary Collard, Don Everson, Roberta Fink, Ida Scott, LaVonne Yeoumans, Gary Yeoumans, Keith Taylor, Jake Fuzi, Mark Hardwick, George Winchester.
The repertoire covered even more ground in a musical sense than in a chronological one.
The audience at the Iron Gate Theatre in the Basche-Sage Place heard torchy ballads such as "Twilight Time" (my favorite version: The Platters'); teen toe-tappers including Danny and the Juniors' "At The Hop"; the finest pop from both sides of the Atlantic — a medley pitting The Beatles versus the Beach Boys; even campfire sing-a-longs like "This Land is Your Land" and "If I Had a Hammer."
(I did not, naturally, contribute so much as a decibel to the latter two, which made for a rousing conclusion to the show. And for my restraint, to everyone in the Iron Gate the evening of May 7 I say this: You're welcome.)
I enjoyed the evening immensely.
I was impressed as much by the obvious dedication of the performers as I was by the purity of their voices and their dexterity with the guitar, piano, bass and drums.
Fame and fortune, the twin rewards which typically compel people to put in the thousands of hours of practice required to hone their talents to a marketable level, do not apply, it seems to me, in this case.
There are no recording contracts being negotiated, no TV reality show producers slipping business cards into palms still sweaty from the stage lights.
Yet these volunteers sacrificed anyway.
They studied lyrics and memorized chords and rehearsed until they had it down pat, just so they could put on a show for double-digit audiences in cramped quarters.
And they'll do so nine times this month.
I don't mean to suggest, though, that their toil is either anonymous or thankless.
The audience at the May 7 revue was enthusiastic and sustained in its applause.
And well that it was.
That we don't significantly enrich our abundance of local artists in a monetary sense in no way diminishes their accomplishments.
Not so long as we can detect the wealth of their work with our eyes and our ears and indeed with our hearts, all of which can sense greatness even in the humble, and richness in a modest setting.
The proliferation of motion sensors has finally infiltrated the home aroma industry.
This is an event as predictable as it is dismaying.
You can now buy, for a modest sum, a device which will, whenever you walk past it, emit a puff of chemically scented air.
This is, I'll concede, a valuable advance in technology for those dunderheads who can't ever get the hang of pressing a button.
I presume the purpose of this product is sensuous rather than protective, although the latter is typical of floodlights and other products that detect movement.
The television advertisement did not, at any rate, imply that this air-freshener can be programmed, when something more than a brief whiff is desired, to incapacitate an intruder with a sustained blast of jungle rain or mountain meadow.
I won't buy one, anyway, on account of there's a little girl who lives in my house and who is almost constantly in motion.
If I plugged in one of those contraptions we'd have to grope our way through a perpetual, albeit aromatic, fog, rather like San Franciscans.
Imagine the barked shins and stubbed toes.
Besides which, I can't abide the cloying scent of an ocean breeze concocted by technicians in the sterility of a lab.
The seashore, and I mean the genuine article, is a rich stew of scents both fresh and foul, equal parts astringent salt and decaying crab.


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Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia
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developmental delay, cranial nerve dysfunction, and malformation of the hindbrain.[1] Individuals with PTCD may have a collection of medical and devlopmental problems including: hearing impairment, ataxia, language and speech disorders, feeding and swallowing difficulties, heart malformations and facial paralysis. The cause of this condition is unknown.The severity of the medical problems varies among patients. Some patients have a good long-term prognosis with normal intelligence and partial speech.[2] To date, the condition has been identified in less than 20 patients.[3]Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia (PTCD) is a non-progressive disorder characterized by significant
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- What is pontine tegmental cap dysplaisa?. UW Hindbrain Malformation Research Program. 2012; http://depts.washington.edu/joubert/pontinetegmentalcapdysplasia.php. Accessed 4/26/2012.
- Briguglio M, Pinelli L, Giordano L, et al. Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia: developmental and cognitive outcome in three adolescent patients. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2011; 6:36. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21651769. Accessed 4/26/2012.
- Desai N, Young L, Miranda M., et al . Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia: the neurotologic perspective. Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. 2011; 6:992-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21705787. Accessed 4/26/2012.
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WebApps and the CSS WG coordinate on the following specification:
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WebApps' specifications do not include any normative references for any of DAP's specifications.
The following DAP specifications include one or more normative references to WebApps' specs:
- Several of DAP's API specs reference WebApps' Web IDL spec
- DAP's HTML Media Capture spec has a normative reference to WebApps' File API spec
The DAP WG is interested in the following specs being produced by WebApps:
- The File* specs: File API, File API: Writer, File API: Directories and System
The DAP WG and WebApps WG have the following spec as a "joint deliverable" between the two WGs:
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The following specifications were part of the HTML WG's HTML5 specification effort but were moved from the HTML WG to WebApps. Naturally, these specifications are a coordination point for the HTML WG and some of them are of interest to other WGs in W3C and/or other standards organizations:
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- Web Sockets API; protocol discussions on IETF's HyBi mail list
- Web Storage
- Web Workers
In addition to the above specifications, some members of the HTML WG expressed interested in at least the following Web API specifications:
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