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Hub Productions has confirmed that Steven R. McQueen will be a guest at their Vampire Diaries 2: Return to Mystic Falls convention taking place on June 9th in Sydney and June 10th in Melbourne.
He'll be joining the previously announced David Anders and Michael Trevino, and it looks like they have a more few guests yet to be announced, so stay tuned! They haven't released an exact schedule yet for events in the two cities, but we'll do our best to keep you updated.
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The final volume of The Return trilogy (and the final L.J. Smith-penned Vampire Diaries novel), Midnight, is out today in North America. We know Australians and U.K. fans have had the book for a few weeks now, and many U.S. and Canadian fans were discovering it in bookstores this past week, but today it should be widely available.
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Good news, UK fans. The return date for the Vampire Diaries was announced this afternoon by @itv2: Tuesday, 1st February at 9pm on ITV2. Yes, that's right, we'll be seeing the episodes here in the UK only a few days after the episodes have aired in the US, and a day after Australia (and the show returns for you guys on January 31st on the GO! Channel). No more running and hiding from spoilers for weeks on end.
As suspected, Vampire Diaries Online were able to confirm that Ian Somerhalder's appearance on Jimmy Fallon tonight has had to be cancelled due to the knock-on effects of the recent Atlanta Snowpocalypse and scheduling changes.
Finally, the folks over at TV Guide's Mega Buzz have a few words to say on the upcoming vampire/werewolf war on the show, and it looks like Jules may be starting to mark her territory a bit where it comes to her own kind.
Posted by Vee | September 6, 2010, 10:16 (MST) | 3 Comments
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Australia's GO! Network has posted their own version of the Year of the Kat promo. Season 2 takes its Oz bow on Monday, Sept. 13th. Thanks to CQTelevision for the heads up!
And thanks to @VDSource (via Vampire Diaries Italia) for pointing out this "Next Thursday" CW promo for The Return. Nothing new here, just that we can't get enough of Katherine. And we like reminding everyone that Vampire Diaries Season 2 starts THIS THURSDAY!
Posted by Red | September 4, 2010, 10:14 (MST) | 9 Comments
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No sign of any webclips for now, but we've got a couple of season two Vampire Diaries trailers to tide you over the weekend featuring Katherine (with a dash of Stefan) and Elena from the Australian GO! channel and the CW.
Thanks to I Heart Vampire Diaries for the heads up!
Posted by Red | September 2, 2010, 17:13 (MST) | 3 Comments
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Season two of the Vampire Diaries is premiering in Australia on the GO! channel just a few days after the US on Monday, September 13th, and there's a shiny promo trailer to go with it.
(Thanks, Denise!)
Posted by Red | August 12, 2010, 19:27 (MST) | 11 Comments
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There are a couple of new promos that aired during tonight's rerun of Miss Mystic Falls. We've got the super-short 'TV to Talk About' promo courtesy of Nina Dobrev Network
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Posted by Vee | July 4, 2010, 11:48 (MST) | 6 Comments
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Hub Productions' Vampire Diaries fan event this weekend in Sydney and Melbourne was, by all accounts, a good time for all. There were lots of tweets from Sydney and post-con tweets from Melbourne throughout the weekend, and we're sure there will be lots more info as fans get some much-deserved rest.
You can check out a stream of tweets from the event by clicking #TVDozcon and at Cover It Live (set up by Paul Wesley Fans). Apparently reception was pretty spotty in Melbourne but keep an eye on Paul Wesley Australia and Salvatore Council for comprehensive post-Con wrap-ups. For an insider's viewpoint, check out @FilthiAssistant – Twitter of the fabulous Meg at Hub.
Some exceptionally cool news – Hub's auction to benefit Starlite Foundation was a hit! Paul's shirts for Sydney and Melbourne pulled in around $1,000 each, and Ian's shirt in Melbourne brought in an astounding $2,000. Well done to the lucky bidders! The Paul t-shirt winner in Melbourne, @Deanie_24, posted pics of the shirt on her Twitter: Front and Back.
We've compiled some links below but if you have something to add, drop it in the comments and we'll add it to this post – recaps, videos, photos, your general impressions, etc.
Random cool tidbits from the Q&A sessions with Michael, Nina, Paul, and Ian (courtesy of fans on Twitter):
- Michael originally read for both Damon and Stefan. (@dixiesattic)
- Michael confirmed Tyler would have a new love interest in Season 2. (@SalvatoreCast)
- Ian confirmed he would be shooting a Season 2 promo/teaser in a few days. (@SalvatoreCast)
- Nina's favorite episodes are Lost Girls and Children of the Damned. (@SalvatoreCast)
- Michael likes the idea of a Tyler/Bonnie relationship. (@dixiesattic)
- Nina said the blooper reel on the DVD is very funny. (@KatGrahamAus)
- Paul says he's looking forward to seeing how Katherine will manipulate Stefan in Season 2. (@SalvatoreCast)
- Michael would love more flashbacks involving Tyler's ancestors. (@SalvatoreCast)
Fan photos:
- wolvesx's Flickr stream featuring Paul and Ian in Sydney
- @HotVampireMen's TweetPhoto stream from Saturday in Sydney
- Some photos of Nina on @Holly2306's Twitpic
- Great shot of Ian by @sloane_m
- @KatGrahamAus's TweetPhotos stream
- @dixiesattic's photo op portraits with Michael, Nina, Paul and Ian
- @RobstenTwiFan's Twtipic stream from Sydney
- @pat89_'s Twitpic stream featuring the foursome
- Robyn's photos of Michael, Nina, Paul and Ian in Melbourne
- jayeraee's YouTube video stream (vids of Nina, Paul, Michael and Ian)
- @HotVampireMen's Twitvid stream from Sydney
- TheGuavapie's vid of Michael teasing Tyler's supernatural possibilities during his Q&A
- TheOfficialCL's vlog recap of her Melbourne con experience
Posted by Vee | June 25, 2010, 0:02 (MST) | 1 Comment
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In just over a week, Hub Productions' Vampire Diaries fan event launches in Australia, featuring appearances from Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, and Michael Trevino. Want to help them hit the stage with style?
Hub's Vampire Diaries video contest ends this Saturday, June 26th, at 11:59 p.m. AUSTRALIAN time. (If you're unsure when that is in your time zone, check out the World Clock.) This is your last chance to splice together a kick ass introduction for each of these very special guests. All of the information you need to enter is on Hub's website.
Hub and Vampire-Diaries.net have some very cool things in store for the four winners, with special thanks going out to KRMA Clothing, Smart Pop Books, Crissy Calhoun and ECW Press, and a bevy of bands that have been featured on Vampire Diaries – Stateless, Barcelona, Plumb, White Lies, and Mads Langer (with additional thanks to Copenhagen Records and Universal Music Group). You can read more about the prizes on Hub's site and on our sponsors page.
Have fun, good luck, and ROLL ON, AUSTRALIA!
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Australians, your Vampire Diaries event just keeps getting cooler: Hub announced today that Michael Trevino will join Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, and Paul Wesley in Sydney on July 3rd and Melbourne on July 4th. Other than the Atlanta Hot Topic event, this will be Michael's first fan event appearance on behalf of Vampire Diaries, so attendees are getting an extra-special treat. Two days, four guests, and a ton of Vampire Diaries fans – sounds like a great time to us. Visit Hub's official site for ticket and venue information.
Now that Michael has been officially confirmed, that means you can begin submitting Tyler Lockwood-centric intro videos to Hub's Vampire Diaries fanvid competition. And trust us: You want to enter because Vampire-Diaries.net is giving away a lot of cool stuff to the four winners and we've added even more goodies to the pack, courtesy of Stateless, whose track "Bloodstream" was featured in the closing moments of Founder's Day.


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Brian Davis, 30, was traveling southbound on John Anderson Highway about 9:46 p.m. Friday and failed to negotiate a curve in the road, causing him to travel off the road onto the grass shoulder, according to FHP. Davis' 2006 Harley-Davidson Softail overturned onto its left side, entered the tree line west of the highway and hit some trees.
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In my opinion, fully panned double tracked guitars give the best foundation for wide stereo usage. This is because fully panned sources are truly independent and does not leak into each other, which in turn means that any discrepancies or differences between L/R will always be at their widest point. What you really need, is hard pans and then pull just certain elements back towards center. For this I'd recommend using a multiband stereo tool. GMulti, which is a multiband compressor that allows you to bypass the compressor function and use its built-in multiband stereo widener / contractor.
Stereo enhancers are some pretty cool tools, but their usages are often limited. If a stereo source originally is very little widened, you can with good results use it to widen them out. Works wonders for certain drum overheads and room mics because they are often recorded in stereo and the channels are dependent of each other.
However, when you add stereo enhancement on max panned guitars (which are dual mono and independent of each other), you always subtract from their original spot, and the processed audio from one channel always go into the other channel. It is not possible to further widen a 100% panned source without it leaking into the other channel.
With that said, there
is the matter of aureal perception
are two ways of processing stereo. The first version is basically like a stereo panner that doesn't add copies of the audio but rather sends the original audio out to their respective sides. Useless for rhythm tracks as you already can pan them max manually. Useful for stereo tracks that are originally locked closer in the stereo field. The other version is the delay (haas effect), which I'm assuming is the topic here
. Because of the induced haas effect created by stereo enhancers, it will sound like the audio surrounds you. What really happens is that the processed audio is a copy of the original source but delayed and panned in opposite direction.
What you are proposing is to have the original source only slightly panned and then add stereo processing that will widen them further? Here's why I don't think it's a good idea, or rather, doesn't really give any benefits:
Stereo processing
that uses delay
pushes a processed signal towards the other channel, starting from center and working its way to the opposide side.
This means that if you did a 50% widening, the processed audio is pushed 50% towards the other side. For instance, if one the original sources was panned 40% left, then the processed audio is pushed 20% right. If the original source is 60% left, the processed will be 30% right.
With 100% widening you are panning the exact number in the opposite direction. Most enhancers go way beyond 100% and will eventually "loop back" into the original channel. When this occurs, you get phasing, because the audio is essentially a copy of itself in the same stereo field. Some enhancers can add slight coloration to the processed signal to dampen the phasing effect.
So, let's say that your original track is 50% panned, and you stereo widen it with 150% to achieve 100% to the other side. This is very much the same if your tracks were initially 100% panned and if you had only 50% widening. The difference is that the former has the "copies" farthest out with the original source closest to center. The other difference is that the copies, which are furthest out, are delayed by the amount of milliseconds you set in the stereo tool. If the copy is delayed 10ms, then you'll hear the original slightly panned audio first, and the farthest out copies 10ms later. Not easily recognizable, but the delay is there.
With all of this said, do some experiments.
If you don't use the delay feature on the stereo enhancer, then you are basically just panning the audio further to their respective sides (as opposed to the opposite channel by using delay / haas). With this you're back at square one.
I've used stereo enhancers on rhythm tracks in the past, but not anymore. There are more delicate ways to increase perception of a wider stereo field. One way is to actually pull certain frequencies (50-80+ Hz, generally low-end boom) innwards using a multiband stereo tool like GMulti. Another way is to quad track with mixed panning, which always produces true and differential sources in stereo. Whatever you do, always make room for the rest of the composition.
Edit: Added some clarification.
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To Victor, the Spoils is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories given by Louise Cassidy-Williams to protagonist Victor Vance.
Marty Jay Williams is now killed and the Trailer Park Mafia are considerably wiped out. Victor drops by Louise's apartment and she suggests him about taking over Marty's businesses. The two go outside and recruit two henchman at Sunshine Autos. They get to Marty's loan shark business and kill all the Trailer Park Mafia gang members defending it. Louise recruits some other gang members and after taking over all of the empire businesses, she shows up and says that all the businesses that belonged to the Trailer Park Mafia are now Victor's, so he can now run his own gang (Vance Crime Family).
(Victor and Louise at Mary-Jo's apartment.)
Louise: I've been thinking over what you said about me and the baby being better off without Marty, and... I've got a plan. Why don't YOU take over Marty's business?
Victor: I'm no gang boss.
Louise: No... but you could be. Come on, we both need the cash, honey.
(Victor and Louise are outside the apartment.)
Louise: First, we need to get some guys together.
(After finding two gang members at Sunshine Autos.)
Louise: Hey, wanna make some money?
(After arriving at Marty's loan shark business.)
Louise: I'll go find some more guys and see you at Marty's other place.
Victor: This shouldn't be too tough. Come on, guys.
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Louise: You did it, Vic. The whole damn caboodle's yours!
Victor: Yeah, but I don't know how to run this kind of thing.
Louise: Marty could do it, and he was nearly inbred! You'll pick it up! You're amazing! You can do anything!
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On Monday, the Pittsfield, Mass., Police Department announced the passing of one of their decorated police canines.
According to the department, the German shepherd, named "Nero," who had been on the force for nearly eight years, died after a long illness.
Nero had been partnered with Officer James Parise since 2006.
Nero's heroics were highlighted in the police statement:
In 2009, K-9 Nero received the Department's Life Saving Commendation for his actions in locating a woman who had wandered away from a homeless shelter in freezing temperatures and not dressed for the weather.
Nero located the missing woman trying to keep warm under a pile of leaves. In 2012, Nero tracked an elderly man who had wandered from his home in freezing cold temperatures. After a two mile track, Nero located the man in a barn, where he was seeking shelter and trying to stay warm.
The veteran canine is credited with apprehending numerous felons as well as with locating illegals drugs. Nero also participated in numerous public outreach programs in which children were taught about police canine work.
Nero's succumbed to his illness on Feb. 14.
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Two studies presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon highlight the dangers that smoking poses to patients receiving total knee or hip implants.
The first study looked at more than 600 total knee replacements (in patients with an average age of 62), performed between 2005 and 2009 at the Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and the Bonutti Clinic of Effingham, Illinois. Among the patients, approximately 115 were smokers.
The researchers found that the overall revision rate – meaning the number of surgeries that had to be redone – was 10 times higher for smokers compared with nonsmokers: 10 percent vs. 1 percent. Smokers also had a significantly higher rate of complications compared with non-smokers (21 percent vs. 12 percent), including blood clots, abnormal heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, urinary tract infection and kidney failure.
The second study used data from 535 hip replacements surgeries (in 500 patients) performed by Joint Implant Surgeons Inc., a private practice in New Albany, Ohio between 1999 and 2009. Of the surgeries, 160 were first time hip implants, and 375 were revision surgery. Among the patients, 17 percent were smokers, 29.5 percent past smokers, 49 percent nonsmokers and the smoking status of 4.5 percent of patients was unknown.
The results show there were 33 failures at an average of 18 months after surgery, which translates into a 6.2 percent failure rate. When broken down into smoking status, failure rates were 11 percent in smokers, 5.3 percent in previous smokers and 3.8 percent in nonsmokers.
The study looked at a specific type of hip surgery that reconstructed the cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hip bone – called the acetabulum – using porous metal. The idea is that bone grows into and around the porous implant, which secures it.
The researchers considered failures due to infection, an inability of the bone to grow into the porous metal or hip fractures as possibly related to smoking (non smoking-related failures included dislocation and implant breakage). When taking into account only smoking-related failures, the failure rate was 9 percent in smokers and 3.6 percent in nonsmokers.
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I especially think with all the fans that have been waiting for a KotOR 3, many of them will still try it because it is obvious that we are not getting a SPRPG. I am sure a lot of people do not like that it's an MMO, but it is all kotor fans are getting.
It does spark some curiosity in
fans; however, how many of them will actually make the plunge. We will have to wait and see.
BioWare seems very confident. My question is - Why do they keep defending the art and MMO choice if they are confident?
Star Wars: Gallaxies had imploded from making some changes. I don't entirely undertand the changes myself; however, the sudden departure of fans does raise a red flag.
Some of the things BioWare must do to win me over -
(1) Under $10 subscription fee per month. Why? BioWare's
Tens of millions of fans
statement. BioWare is betting on a large audience; thus, any subscription over $10 a month would be greedy. One dollar from a million fans generates a million dollars a month. Could you add things up if five million fans each paid $20 per month for one year. Greed.
(2) An option that prevents other players from killing me. Why? I don't want to be bothered by other player characters. I only want to interact with npcs, and be able to independantly discover the story behind
The Old Republic
(3) A save option. I don't want to pay into months of progress so that I can't reset if something goes wrong. Money = Time = Progress. Taking away the save option will waste and burn money. Why would I want to play a game where I spend hours on progress, so an insane or angry fan could kill me off. Are we talking about arcades, or are we talking about a pc game? *Insert another quater to start over* Ouch.
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Tissue boxes. Is there a more mundane item? Sure, you can get them in colors or patterns or what have you, but in the end, it's still a cardboard box. Not so with the vase-like Paper Pots ($38). These bulbous little guys unscrew to hold your tissues and dispense them with flair! You can even use 'em for TP, but warn your guests - they might be a bit confused.
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The Panthers will have just two players — goalie Tomas Vokoun (Czech Republic) and defenseman Dennis Seidenberg (Germany) — representing them at next month's Olympics.
But Vokoun and Seidenberg won't be the only ones with Panthers' ties in Vancouver.
Panthers' goalie John Vanbiesbrouck and Panthers' TV announcer Steve Goldstein (who by the way will celebrate his 40th birthday on Wednesday) will work radio broadcasts at the Olympics for Westwood One.
I caught up with Beezer at last night's game to ask him about his upcoming radio gig with Goldie.
"I played in the Olympics in '98, but I haven't broadcasted one, so I'm excited to work with Goldie," Beezer said. Then he joked, "He used to beat me up on [W]QAM so I've got to bring a pitchfork or something."
Goldie was a producer at the 1994 Olympics and was a radio host/reporter for Westwood One in '98 when Beezer was playing.
"It's very exciting all the way around," Goldie said. "Beezer is still a real popular athlete in South Florida. It'll be fun doing it with him."
Beezer said his experience as a player in the Olympics will help some on the radio.
"You'll be able to bring some stories about '98 or other Olympics and what guys go through as far as preparation," he said. "You hope to bring some flavor to the people."
I'm guessing many of you went to get Beezer's autograph last night when he signed during the second intermission. He said he decided to come down after attending the USA Hockey meetings in Orlando. He said they're disappointed not to have injured Panthers' winger David Booth on the Olympic roster.
At the same time, Beezer said, "They're very proud of what they did in the World Junior tournament and under-17s. They're excited about the team."
U.S. Olympic hockey has come a long way since the '98 Games in Nagano, Japan, when the program gained headlines for unspecified U.S. players trashing rooms in the Olympic Village and causing about $1,000 worth of damage. The U.S. won just one game in that tournament.
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Coca Cola and rival Pepsi have both agreed to eliminate bromated vegetable oil from their soft drinks including Fanta, Fresca, Powerade, (for Coke) and Mountain Dew and Gatorade (Pepsicola Co.) brands. BVO, which was originally patented as a "fire retardant," has been banned from use in food products in both Japan and the European Union. Coke said it would replace the additive here with sucrose acetate isobutyrate and glycerol ester of rosin (both commonly found in drinks and gum for more than a decade).
According to the Center for Science in Public Interest, the FDA first allowed the use of bromated vegetable oil in 1970, on an "interim basis," but has never changed its status even after 34 years. However, the ingredient should now be completely phased out in the United States by the end of this year.
Many consumers first became aware of BVO in their beverages after Mississippi teen Sarah Kavanagh began an online petition to have it removed from power drinks on Change.org. Upon learning of Coca Cola's and Pepsi's plan to stop using it, she commented "It is really nice to know that companies, really big companies, are listening to consumers."


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Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (live at Newport, 1958)
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Thelonious Monk (piano), Henry Grimes (bass), Roy Haynes (drums).
Composed by Thelonious Monk.
Recorded: live at Newport Jazz Festival, RI, July 6, 1958
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The most frequently criticized sequence in Jazz on a Summer's Day, Bert Stern's documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, is Thelonious Monk's performance of "Blue Monk." Like Jimmy Giuffre before him, Monk repeats a tune he'd played on the previous year's CBS telecast The Sound of Jazz. Monk even sports the same bamboo-framed sunglasses outdoors in July as he'd worn in the TV studio the prior December.
The criticism, though, is never directed at Monk, but rather at the filmmaker for relegating the pianist to background music for distracting aerial shots of the America's Cup trials, filmed by Stern leaning out of a rented Piper Cub over the waters off Newport and proving once again Damon Runyon's timeless axiom that viewing a yacht race is like watching grass grow. Even more annoying than the lumbering boats, however, is the fact that much of Monk's solo is obscured by a nautical sportscaster jabbering from his perch on the bridge of the U.S. Destroyer William R. Rush, strategically deployed at taxpayer expense within 200 yards of the starting line. (Did they fear a British Royal Navy sub might torpedo Columbia, the ultimately victorious New York Yacht Club entry?)
Unfortunately for purists, the original soundtrack CD provides not a pristine "Blue Monk," but a badly mangled compromise. In the process of mercifully stripping the inane prattle from this track, 16 bars of Monk's solo have been mislaid! In lieu of the movie's seven choruses, the CD contains a choppy five and two-thirds choruses—which ain't exactly what God had in mind when He gave Moses the 12-bar blues. Consequently, among the more than two dozen recordings of "Blue Monk" that its composer left us, this track in its present form must rank near the bottom. This criticism, though, is not directed at Thelonious, but towards those who treat his legacy with such disrespect.
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Margaret Davis Grimes
// Dec 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM
The young (22 at the time) bassist playing with Thelonious Monk and Roy Haynes in the butchered "Blue Monk" sequence is none other than the great Henry Grimes. Henry contributed his bass artistry to five different -- very different -- groups in the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival: (going alphabetically) Benny Goodman, Lee Konitz, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, and Tony Scott. And speaking of disrespect, Henry's name never even appeared in the printed programs for the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Fortunately, the respected critic Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" noticed the extraordinary scope and quality of Henry's musicianship and made a point of praising him in "The Times." If anyone has a copy of that review, please let me know! Sincerely, Margaret Davis Grimes, http://www.henrygrimes.com, email@example.com.
Stacy Harris
// Jan 06, 2009 at 05:04 AM
The Game Show Network (GSN) aired a 1958 segment of What's My Line? on January 5, 2009 featuring Benny Goodman as the mystery guest. Moderator John Daly references the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, suggesting some press-generated controversy. Daly tries to elicit Goodman's opinion on what appears to be some sort of innovation or controversial performance re: the just-concluded 1958 festival but Benny refuses to take the bait. Were some of those featured likely too much on the cutting-edge?


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David and Courteney Cox Arquette have defied Hollywood oddsmakers, managing to keep their marriage strong amid the media spotlight, drug problems and miscarriages.
And while the couple have been struggling to have a child -- mirroring a story line of Cox's "Friends" character, Monica -- Cox and Arquette have another project in the works, reports ABC News: a reality television show.
"Mixing It Up," which will premiere this month on the Women's Entertainment channel, reflects a prominent aspect of their lives: interior design (Cox spent a year in college studying architecture and design, and has bought, renovated and sold several houses).
Cox and Arquette discussed their struggle to have a baby in an interview with "20/20" anchor Barbara Walters that aired Friday night.
"I actually can get pregnant pretty easily," the 39-year-old Cox said, but added that she has had "many miscarriages" and is now using pregenetic testing. "We want to see if the egg is OK before I get pregnant again, because I don't want to lose any more. We don't want to take any more chances."
Of Arquette, she says he has been extremely supportive during their efforts to have a child. "He's really great. He goes to every appointment with me. And he gives me all my shots."
Arquette, 32, wasn't always so supportive: He was battling a serious drug problem at the beginning of the marriage.
"I never shot heroin; I smoked it," he says. "I had done coke and a little speed."
His mother's death a few years ago jolted him into realizing that he would lose Cox if he didn't clean up his act. The turning point? He was up all night doing drugs and something just hit him.
"I was like, 'What the hell am I doing with my life? This isn't where I want to go.' I wanted Courteney."
Gere to hear some music?
Richard Gere, who song-and-danced his way through the Oscar-winning hit film "Chicago," may be taking his musical talents to London's West End, reports Hello! magazine.
The "Pretty Woman" star has been handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to fill the role of Captain Von Trapp -- the father who falls in love with the governess of his seven children during the Nazi invasion -- in a London production of "The Sound of Music."
Gere, 50, and the famed music impresario apparently discussed the proposition when they crossed paths at the recent Giorgio Armani exhibition in London. The actor, currently shooting another fancy-footing film, "Shall We Dance?," with Jennifer Lopez, is said to be "very interested" in stepping into the part.
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2007 Article IV Consultation with the Slovak RepublicPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 07/71
June 22, 2007
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.
On June 6, 2007, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Slovak Republic.1
Economic performance strengthened further in 2006. Real GDP growth accelerated to 8¼ percent supported by strong productivity gains. Domestic demand remained robust, while the contribution of net foreign demand rose. Exports increased sharply, as exports of cars and durable consumption goods speeded up, and outpaced imports. However, because of a deterioration of terms of trade, the external current account narrowed only marginally to 8¼ percent of GDP. Much of the external deficit was covered by inflows of foreign direct investment.
Strong economic growth boosted employment and the unemployment rate fell sharply to 13¼ percent. Despite the strengthening labor demand, real wage increases moderated and lagged productivity gains. Thus, profitability continued to rise.
Inflation was on an upward path for much of 2006, but this trend reversed in the fourth quarter. Harmonized consumer price inflation reached 5 percent in July-August 2006 but declined subsequently to 2 percent in February-April 2007. Inflation developments were influenced by trends in world energy prices, the unwinding of the base effects of the large increases in regulated utility prices in October 2005, and decreases in regulated prices in January 2007.
The National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) has been following a hybrid monetary framework focused on restraining inflation and on maintaining the exchange rate within the Exchange Rate Mechanism 2 (ERM2) requirements. Concerns about a negative inflation outlook prompted the NBS to raise its policy interest rate in four steps by a total of 175 basis points during the first three quarters of 2006. During May-July 2006, negative investor sentiment on emerging markets and concerns about the election outcome and courses of policies led to depreciation pressures on the koruna. In July 2006, the NBS intervened heavily in the foreign exchange rate market to stem depreciation pressures when the koruna dropped below the central parity under ERM2.
Favorable growth and export performance and positive investor sentiment toward the region led to appreciation pressures from October 2006 onward. In end-December, as the koruna approached the upper edge of the ERM2 band, the NBS began countering appreciation pressures through interventions and prolonged rejection of bids during repo auctions. Eventually in mid-March 2007, with appreciation pressures persisting, the central parity was revalued with the approval of the European Union member states by 8.5 percent. The NBS has continued to counter appreciation pressures since the parity revaluation and has held the koruna at around 6 percent above the new central parity. With inflation declining markedly in the first quarter of 2007 and judging upside risks to be low, the NBS lowered its policy rate by 50 basis points in two steps since late March.
The general government deficit in 2006, estimated at 3.4 percent of GDP, was smaller than envisaged in the budget. Collections of tax and non-tax revenues and social insurance contributions surpassed the budgeted levels. There was also some underspending in cofinancing of EU-funds projects because of shortfalls in drawdown of funds from the EU budget. These gains were mostly offset by higher outlays on goods and services, pensions and health benefits, and transport subsidies.
Growth is projected to remain strong during 2007-09. The commencement of production and increasing capacity in export-oriented projects and increased downstream integration with domestic supply chains will be the main engines of growth. The current account deficit is expected to narrow progressively over the medium term. Slovakia is well poised to adopt the euro in January 2009. Barring major shocks, the Maastricht inflation criterion seems within reach, and the 2007-09 budget framework aims at meeting the euro zone objectives.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors commended Slovakia's strong economic performance in recent years, which was underpinned by prudent macroeconomic management, a wide range of structural reforms, and increasing integration with the EU. Directors welcomed the new government's commitment to continue policies aimed at ensuring euro adoption in January 2009.
Looking forward, Directors concurred that Slovakia is well poised to adopt the euro, although several challenges remain. Chief among them are to satisfy the test of exchange rate stability under ERM2, to enhance fiscal and labor market flexibility to allow the economy to absorb shocks in the monetary union, and to continue with structural reforms to sustain growth and further reduce unemployment. Directors also noted that the authorities' objective of socially inclusive growth would need to be coordinated with the policy framework for euro zone entry and strong performance in the monetary union.
Directors agreed that the current level of competitiveness was satisfactory. However, they observed that the favorable prospects for growth and euro adoption may generate further currency appreciation pressure with potential for volatility and overshooting. Directors encouraged the NBS to conduct its policy, and its communications with market participants, in a manner that would limit opportunities for one-way bets in the foreign exchange market. Given the favorable inflation outlook, some Directors also saw scope for prudently lowering the policy interest rate. However, a number of other Directors stressed the need for caution in considering further easing monetary policy, noting that there are still risks for the inflation outlook given that the economy is operating at or near full capacity, and that the interest rate spread to the euro area is already low.
Directors recommended a more ambitious fiscal consolidation than envisaged in the 2007-2009 budgetary framework, to ensure that fiscal policy remains consistent with the Maastricht deficit limit, to contain potential re-emerging inflationary pressures, and to counter further currency appreciation pressures. They called on the authorities to save revenue windfalls, and to adhere to the existing medium-term expenditure ceilings. Directors stressed the need to bolster the fiscal management of local governments and to improve policy coordination among different levels of government, to ensure achievement of the national fiscal consolidation objective.
Directors highlighted the importance of strengthening the medium-term expenditure framework. They welcomed the initiation of background work by the authorities to increase spending efficiency and to streamline public administration, and, in this context, called for efforts to increase efficiency and contain costs in the health care system. Given that higher socially-oriented current spending would reduce expenditure flexibility, Directors recommended putting greater emphasis on infrastructure spending and on employment promotion in the underdeveloped regions of Slovakia.
Directors emphasized that wage moderation and flexibility in wage-setting procedures are essential to restrain inflation and maintain competitiveness. In this regard, the recent legislation that extended sectoral wage agreements to all firms in the sector was a source of concern. Directors also cautioned against further large increases in the minimum wage, as they could lead to wage drift and worsen employment prospects for low-skilled workers.
In view of the still high unemployment rate among the low-skilled and in the less-developed regions, Directors saw a need to improve the effectiveness of active labor market policy schemes. They also stressed the importance of ensuring that the labor code amendments under consideration would not raise labor costs and reduce labor market flexibility. Directors encouraged the authorities to give consideration to introducing an earned-income tax credit for low-income workers, as this would enhance job creation and increase incentives to work.
Directors welcomed the finding that Slovakia's financial system is generally sound and resilient to adverse shocks, while supporting continued efforts to further enhance financial institution supervision. They called for close monitoring of banks' loan portfolios, as continued rapid credit growth has increased banks' exposure to credit risks. Given the high foreign ownership of banks, further strengthening of cooperation with home country supervisors should also remain a priority. Directors commended the strengthening of the regime against money laundering and terrorism financing, and encouraged the authorities to move expeditiously to address the remaining gaps.


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(OAKLAND) -- Oh well, winning three of four is never a bad thing, especially when your fifth starter is taking on the other team's top starter.
But the Oakland Athletics won't find any solace in that caveat, especially after knowing that former teammate Yoenis Cespedes' three-run home run in the eighth inning helped the Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels today: thus, the A's wasted a chance to gain another game on the Angels as they head into a tough seven-game road trip.
Luke Gregerson made it two straight games now for the bullpen surrendering runs after the relief corps had been so stingy in the last few weeks: the Minnesota Twins scored the winning run in the top of the eighth inning today, on a RBI double by former A's catcher Kurt Suzuki.
Another former Oakland player—Josh Willingham—added injury to insult by connecting on a two-run home run off Gregerson, who hadn't given up a run since June 25.
Thus, Oakland lost for the first time in 13 games against the Twins, by the final score of 6-1.
(We'll forget the ninth inning happened, but based on the final score, draw your own conclusions.)
Wasted opportunity, for sure, but the A's recover from these things well enough, as we've seen in the past few years. But this still stung: Oakland only mustered four hits and one walk off Twins starter Phil Hughes, scoring one run in the first inning. Stephen Vogt almost hit a three-run home run in that first inning, but the ball was foul. Vogt then drove in the A's only run with a single.
It was that kind of day for the A's: you can't win 'em all. Three times this year, Oakland has taken the first three games of a four-game set at home, and only once did the club complete the four-game sweep (against Boston). But as any baseball fan knows, even the worst teams win one of three, so the A's did what they needed to in this series against the last-place Twins.
The truly good news of the day was that Jason Hammel delivered his second straight quality start for Oakland, pitching 6.1 innings and allowing only Brian Dozier's first-inning, solo home run. Hammel struck out five batters and gave up only six base runners total (four hits and two walks).
He seems to be coming around, perhaps, to his new digs, and the A's like having that "ace" in their back pockets right now.
At 72-45, Oakland still has the best record in baseball, but this next week will be a big test for the team: four games in Kansas City against the red-hot Royals (winners of seven straight now) who just took two of three in Oakland last weekend, and then three games in Hotlanta against the Braves, still chasing a National League wild-card spot and the NL East division title.
If the A's can win three or four on that road trip and come back home with a three-game lead still in the American League West, it'll be a good thing: they host the Angels for three games on August 22-24.


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Code: If (DoCmd.OutputTo acReport)= vbCancel Then MsgBox "Cancel",vbOkOnly Else End IfAnd it don't work. I want to replace the interne message that Access gives when the action is cancel. Is it possible?
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Joseph Walker Carroll
Position: LB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 220 lbs.
Born: May 29, 1950 in Warren, OH
High School: Warren G. Harding
College: Pittsburgh (school history)
Drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the 11th round (277th overall) of the 1972 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 8 (7842nd overall since 1950)
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CFPUA considers changing its notification policy
Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:58 p.m.
Officials with the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority are considering changes to its notification policy following a miscommunication with area residents during an extended valve-replacement project last week.
Overnight work on a 16th Street large valve replacement, an ongoing project, disrupted service for a handful of nearby homes last week – none of which were among the roughly 65 residents notified ahead of time that their water could be turned off. That left a small group of homes, mostly odd-numbered houses on the 1600 block of Grace Street, with no water or plumbing for a period of about two days.
"They left a paper notice at my door saying that they'd be working on the water service, and that the attached addresses could be affected," said Michael O'Connell III, who lives in an odd-numbered house on Grace Street. "My address wasn't included nor was my block, but I was affected.
"I had no water for two days."
When the water came back on, O'Connell's block, like others who had lost water, was under a boil-water advisory – a notification he only knew about after calling the authority to ask whether it was safe to drink from the tap.
"I was initially told that I didn't need to boil it, and then I never got the notice you could stop boiling and start drinking," he said. "It's their responsibility to update their customers."
The oversight, according to a CFPUA spokesman, stems from the authority's current notification policy, which is to alert only the residents who are likely to lose service rather than those that could be affected only if problems arise during otherwise routine work.
"You try to drill down as much as you can, as confidently as you can, to only those addresses that you strongly believe are going to be affected," said Mike McGill, head of communications for the authority. "In this case, there were more people taken out of service. That was not completely communicated and we're working on those communications efforts."
It's likely that the authority will transition to a more comprehensive approach by beginning to notify all customers who reside in or near a work area that their service could be disrupted, he said.
"If problems occur you'd much rather have people know that there was a possibility they lose services and be pleasantly surprised that they retain them, versus someone not being notified and then losing it," McGill said.
But there's no timeline for when the switch could occur. Work on 16th Street is set to continue this week, and O'Connell said his home remains off the list of potentially affected areas.
"A new notice came out on Friday, and it says the 1100 to 1500 block of Grace Street. I'm in the 1600 block," he said. "They didn't include us again."
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The Thunder Bay Border Cats have signed local talent to their collegiate roster.
Lucas Scocchia and Danny McInnis, both attended St. Ignatius High School and our graduates of the Northwest Slam baseball program under current Lakehead University Thunderwolves coach and former Chicago Cubs farmhand Jason Hart.
According to the Border Cats, Scocchia and McInnis have signed temporary contracts.
Scocchia, a pitcher for Oakland University, underwent rotator cuff surgery in 2012 and missed the entire season. He returned to the bump in 2013 where he went 0-4 in 13 appearances recording 14 strikeouts in 23 innings. In 2014, after nine appearances, his record sits at 0-1 with an ERA a tad over 4.00 (4.05).
McInnis has just completed his freshman season at Division 2, Angelo State University. He drew a lot of interest from south of the border (specifically Texas) after he threw a no-hitter at a Perfect Game Showcase tournament in Cedar Rapids. McInnis appeared in two games, striking out two.
The Border Cats season begins on May 27 at Port Arthur Stadium where they take on the St. Cloud Rox. Please visit the Border Cats website during the season to follow the progress of the Cats along with these talented Thunder Bay players.


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The thing about Bernard Hopkins is that he talks just like he fights, which means he's non-stop, always busy, always throwing something out there for you to chew on or figure out or to analyze, almost like he's on a natural high that won't let him stop to take a breath or catch a second wind or find the right words, which are just there below the surface if he can find them and tell you why he's such a great fighter and how he respects the profession and expects other fighters like Oscar De La Hoya to respect it too, though Bernard wouldn't come into a fight with his "belly hanging out" over his trunks like Oscar did against Felix Sturm this past June, because you owe something to yourself and to the sport and Bernard takes "pride" in his work and how can you "not get motivated when the guy you're fighting is going to come into the ring and punch your face," so how could you not get yourself at 100 percent to fight a guy?
As for retiring from the fight game, Bernard has "never really sat back" and said to himself, "I'm going to fight three or four times and then quit," because he hasn't seen any signs that make him think he should quit, although if he were Arturo Gatti, well, then he might consider retiring, but it still has never been a thought in his head, though you could get a "detached retina" in a fight and then you should think about retiring, but he's not worried about it because he's got a "better right hand than De La Hoya and a better left hook," than De la Hoya, and he believes he's the "best puncher" of anyone De la Hoya has ever faced.
Besides, if you're "running, you should never look back," because you might get caught and that's why Bernard never looks back, his being "blessed" every time he comes out of a fight healthy, but he knows "nothing lasts forever," and like Mike Tyson said, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit," which is one of those clever little sayings that Bernard will never forget, though Tyson said it when he was still a young fighter "knocking everyone out," at the time.
Bernard thrives on clean living and "has never taken any substance" to enhance his performance as a fighter and he takes pride in that, along with always being in shape, because that's what a fighter should do if he's going to take the fight game seriously, which is why Bernard runs a "tight, military-type camp," and why he sent two sparring partners away from camp early because they forgot they were there "on a mission," and he didn't have time to "baby-sit" while he was training for his Sept. 18 fight against De La Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the undisputed middleweight championship of the world, which is going to be the biggest fight of Bernard's life and that's why he's going to "set a fierce pace that will shock De La Hoya" and he'll "keep it at that pace as long as the fight lasts," and if De La Hoya is not at 100 percent, well, it'll be like "committing suicide."
But the bottom line is, Bernard takes pride in being a "blue-collar, throw-back fighter," like Marvin Hagler, who always carried his own gym bag and that's why Bernard also carries his own gym bag, and he doesn't stay up late "drinking," or "rolling dice in a casino," though he doesn't have anything against someone else's lifestyle if that's what they like to do, but he's looking at bigger and better things and, along with De La Hoya, who Bernard says, "is no chump," and a guy who will "fight to the end and won't quit," they have an opportunity to put on a great fight and a chance to "take boxing out of the ICU," where it's been for awhile, though the only two who can make it a great fight are Bernard and Oscar, and if Oscar is up to it, it will be a great fight, because Bernard is sure up to it.
Next question, please.
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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- Therese A. Louie. "Consumer response to a firm's endorser (dis)association decisions." Article. (January 2002).
- Therese A. Louie. "When bad things happen to endorsers of good products." Article. (January 2001).
- Therese A. Louie. "Gender stereotypes and social-desirability effects on charity donation." Article. (January 2000).
- Therese A. Louie. "I knew we would win: Hindsight bias for favorable and unfavorable team decision outcomes." Article. (January 2000).
- Therese A. Louie. "Decision makers' hindsight bias after receiving favorable and unfavorable feedback." Article. (January 1999).
- Therese A. Louie. "How does the congruity of brand names affect evaluations of brand name extensions?" Article. (January 1994).
- Therese A. Louie. "A look at decisions and attitudes of student immigrants and refugees." Conference. (January 1993).


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"What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight: build anyway." According to the band's biography, this quote by Mother Teresa inspired The Rocketboys, who will be headlining SXSWfm's HAAM Benefit Day Showcase, to forge on as a band after a great deal of setbacks.
In many ways, The Rocketboys have undergone a transformation since they formed in 2005. Although the indie rock band seems to be enjoying a period of relative harmony, that wasn't always the case. The band was originally called Homer Hiccolm & the Rocketboys when they formed in Abilene, Texas back in 2005. They changed their name to The Rocketboys and have since relocated to Austin, but about half of the original band members left over the past few years. The band decided against calling it quits and created a critically-acclaimed album, 2012's Build Anyway.
A review of Build Anyway by Paste Magazine applauds the album and concludes by saying, "Is it self-serious? Frequently. Lovely? Consistently. Road trip-ready? Definitely." A review published on ByVolume.co.uk states that its "ballads almost feel like rock songs and its rock songs hold tight to melody, making the album as a whole phenomenally tight and consistent." Build Anyway is a must-listen if you haven't heard it already.
The Rocketboys will be taking a break from writing a new album to headline the HAAM Benefit Day Showcase presented by SXSWfm next Tuesday, September 24th, at Wooldridge Square Park in downtown Austin! There will be a silent auction during the event and attendees will have a chance to win SXSW 2014 Music wristbands, 3-day ACL passes, The Rocketboy's merchandise, and more! Miller Lite will be providing beer and Austin Pure Water Treatment will be providing purified water, so be sure to bring your reusable water container. You can find all of the info here.


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Ola Nilsson
From: "Ola Nilsson"
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Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 6:30 PM
Im a 23 year old philosophy student from Sweden and it is with great interested I've been browsing through your site. So now I want to encourage you for the important work that you do by running the website and participating in various events and the writing of articles.
I must say I'm shocked to read about what the situation is like in the U.S. as of today. In northern Europe where I live, society has become so much secular that it's almost the opposite of the situation your country is experiencing.
Here there are no such things as huge demonstrations against abortion from religious (Christian) groups. And we don't have talk shows discussing subjects like Jerry Springer just to mention one. It seems to me that the American society is totally dominated by christian morals and ethics and that no other groups get a chance to have influence. I read in one of your articles that it's almost an inquisition against atheists in the U.S.
Im here just going to mention a few differences between our situation in Sweden today and the situation I've seen described in your articles.
1) Teens having sex (legal age for sex in Sweden is 15 but if both parts agree on having sex then nobody can get judged in the court of law).
2) Alcohol (legal age 18) moralists however keep this limit floating and alcohol is accepted as a cultural and historically important heritage.
3) Church and government. They are separated from each other. Our Swedish goverment does not spread words of religion and at school; there's no such thing as "public" prayers.
4) Science is the dominering method used for explaining how nature works and how humans behave.
5) I read in one of your articles that people are worried that if religon and spirituality is put aside then the crime rate will go up and more people will need social wealthfare.
Sweden is showing that this isn't true. My country is known to be one of the most secular countries in the world but if you look at a comparision between how many murderers, thiefs, gang-related crimes, etc., there are per capita in the U.S. compared to here then it's to our benefit.
6) Professors at swedish universities seldom stand for a Christian belief unless they are professor in theology.
Just thought I should write this to you and show that the world doesn't look the same everywhere. I would also like to apologize for my english grammar. Since english isn't my native language I sometimes find it hard to make myself clear.
Best wishes for the future and I hope we'll see a more secular america in a soon future
Swedish Atheist
Ola Nilsson
University of Lund Sweden
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"Children with hemiplegia have motor impairment on one side of their bodies due to stroke or other injury to the brain's motor centers," explains Holly Holland, the Children's Hospital occupational therapist who started the camp. "As they grow, they tend to favor the unaffected limb more over time, effectively worsening their physical disability. These children struggle to learn age-appropriate play and can have difficulty acquiring life skills."
Holland knew her patients with hemiplegia could benefit from constraint-induced movement therapy, or CIMT. The novel therapy, which started in adult stroke victims, involves putting the child's unaffected upper extremity in a cast. The child is then engaged in directed play aimed at strengthening the weak arm and developing the hand dexterity needed to perform basic life skills-things like eating, dressing, or brushing teeth, for instance. Unfortunately for Holland's patients, pediatric CIMT programs are scarce and can cost upwards of $20,000.
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July 2009 - My 100th Birthday - July 2055
By harvey.saks on Aug 03, 2009
Several weeks ago I attended the delivery of an Integrating Siebel Applications 8.0 training in Amsterdam. One of the topics in the class started me thinking about present day problems and what the future may hold in store for us, so this month I thought I would try my hand at a science fiction short story. By the way, the topic that got me thinking was that of "Federated Data". Since the 1970's I have been reading and dealing with the problem of "Island's of Automation", which I define as the construction of dependent automation processes relying on the replication of common data, spread over disparate data structures. Federated Data storage techniques and technologies may finally offer a solution and change the way we design and develop lower cost and more accurate business solutions.
The year is 2055, and much to my amazement not only has medical technology extended my life so that I can celebrate my 100'th Birthday, technology and sensible diet ( I did say this was a work of fiction) ensures that I am mobile without pain, clear of mind, and contributing to the world around me. Still living in the Netherlands I have finally learned the Dutch language and happily celebrate the 15'th anniversary of the World Wide Federated Information project.
The last 50 years were busy once the great nations of the world came together to admit to, and decide on a plan to correct environmental damage as a result of population and pollution growth. The Dutch using super strong Nano materials managed to shore up their water management plans to handle the increase in weather intensity and rise in worldwide sea levels. The same plan that helped prevent horrible flooding, also contributed to reaching the countries negative pollution emission's targets with clean energy production distributed across smaller local clean production facilities. When it was projected that the next season of solar activity would affect communications and electric devices new solar insulation procedures for both technology and population where deployed. Humanity around the world was poised to benefit from all that a brighter future represented
Today in 2055 everyone in the Netherlands has access to local clean energy sources with fall back to new clean and high capacity fusion production generation plants feeding industry and science. With one power cable and one fiber cable coming into each home every person has the ability to conduct any form of public or commercial transaction or communication in the comfort of their home. Personal handsets allow us mobile connectivity to our home and community.
During the mobilization of Dutch resources to deal with threats to existence, it became necessary to respond to changes in the society. The increased electronic attacks on consumers , including identity and data theft on private, commercial and public information shake'd consumer confidence. The questionable quick to get rich business practices in the early part of the century left many consumers penniless and commercial institutions bankrupt. The governments of the world turned their attention to the recovery and re-structuring of the economy as crime continued and additional bailout's were required.
In the second decade of the century attention turned to business transparency and information security. Electronic information including commercial and public transactions would no longer be susceptible to hackers and cyber warriors. The goal was to make every transaction as private, secure, and accurate as a vote in an election (which I now do from home).
The trend that started at the turn of the last century when Commercial and Public Sector institutions began using the same purchased Relationship Management software grew into a synergy that would help change the world (This is a CRM posting and I had to fit the plug in somewhere:).
While I would have loved to be one of the young venturing off to the Martian colony, I am now retired and reflecting on one project that helped bring balance to a world on the edge.
Having been the victim of identity theft I was eager to participate in what started as the working group to define the direction for the next generation of the Customer Profile Exchange Specification ( http://www.idealliance.org/industry_resources/xml_inpractice/cpexchange ) a standard which helped shape the construction of the most popular Customer Relationship Management data models used in the early part of the century. When the major Application Software Vendors got together in a wave of partnerships started first between them and the greater business comunity; and then between the Public Sector Agencies and their Residents: and finally between the Public Sector and Business communities: the representation of information supporting Profile based operations became standardized worldwide.
The move to Service Oriented Architectures worked well inside the secure networks of a common Corporate Enterprise, but showed that standards in integration needed to be supported with standards in common data structures when moving across corporate boundaries. The new generation of electronic criminals slowed down the willingness of many corporations to integrate with each other necessitating the replication of data in each corporate application.
The replication of so much data and the problem of population movement caused by natural disasters brought havoc to the location based data stores. Corporations spent so much energy trying to keep customer information up to date that government agencies had to get involved in protecting consumers from a barrage of video, voice, and text based traffic meant to contact them for sales, service, marketing, and simple profile updating campaigns.
As application functionality grew in a decentralized, open source environment few were prepared for the new generation of cyber-warriors attacking national and commercial institutions. 2022 was a difficult year as communications companies struggled to adapt to the shutting down of the internet for first National Security reasons and latter heightened Solar Radiation levels.
Starting first in the US and then moving to Europe a Consumer Movement focused the Federal Sector's attention on the need to have a Federated Data Model that would protect a person's privacy while providing an authentication service that would audit any transaction associated to the individual.
New mobile and communications technologies enabled everyone to have real-time access to activity against their identity with bio-metric authorization. A change to internet standards took place in order to ensure that any user accessing the network was known and accountable for their activities. The standardization of phones to include bio-metric scanning devices helped create a generation of network technology that was completely transparent and secure.
The latest encryption technologies enabled personal data to be private and secure with each transaction tracked and identified as being sent and received. Closing the internet to anonymous traffic stimulated several private networks offering anonymous service, but the lack of consumers wishing to take the chance saw many venture capital investments collapse in the 2020's. Many of the large email providers were happy to cut off their anonymous transaction under pressure from governments like China and agencies in the US like the National and Homeland Security Agencies.
There were many new industries that were created as a result of the change in the internet and Federal Authentication Services that came into being. Smartphone's with bio-metric authentication technologies ensured that no transaction would take place unless there was a confirmation from both parties in the transaction.
The newly deployed Federal Servers acted as real-time clearing houses for all transaction ensuring the identify of all participants. Address, household and financial information never would be made available to a disreputable source as the Federated Information Service would access payment instructions, contact the financial institution authenticating payment and optionally contacting the consumer for approval. No longer could the children go crazy on your credit card without your knowing.
Companies looking to market products now access Federated Data warehouses of Consumer Demographics to reduce the cost of marketing campaigns and reach only people interested in receiving offers. Consumers were finally able to identify what type of cold and warm offers they were willing to receive and in what method of communication they wanted to use.
Network sites were finally able to identify the legitimacy of traffic requesting their services with the ability to shut down unwanted traffic and prosecute network criminals. Businesses did not have to waste their time trying to validate an address or phone number. The world had moved to a "Trust and Verify" philosophy.
The revolution in business did not stop with sales and marketing as transactions tracking consumer complaints were also validated and tracked. Demographics available to consumers enabled people to compare product by price, but also by reliability and service levels. Consumer spending increased as the consumer was able to trust the verified vendors. New laws protected consumers from vendors selling what they did not have while protecting vendors from illegitimate consumers or those with the lack of financial resources needed to complete the transaction. It turned out to be a win/win situation for all but the criminals.
The design of the World Wide Federated Information revolutionized the way we interact with the electronic world around us. Each citizens identification would be kept private but maintained by a centralized Federated Electronic Vault of data. The data vaults store information in distributed databases with a common data model, built with automated backups on the secured network locations. Each transaction included the certificates that would enable network and application access. Message Headers and data packet structures identified the content, encryption and security levels of the message. One new electronic language of communications emerged tying together more than just the economies of the world's nations.
With Technology and Transparency International relationship between nations became closer allocating resources towards peace and prosperity for what's left of the World's population which after the wars in the early decades of the century, the floods and tsunamis of the twenties, and the recent earthquakes and volcanoes in the last decade, it now stands at about one billion. No 100 years old I feel that the people of the world stood by the tough times and are now leaving our children a legacy that will one day take us to the stars.
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A pregnant nun, who had no idea she was pregnant, has obviously fallen short of keeping her vow of celibacy. This pregnant nun has become worldwide news since she gave birth last week. While pregnant, the nun reports she believed that she had a stomach ailment causing her stomach to bloat. She says she had no idea she was carrying a baby until the doctor's informed her she was about to give birth at the emergency room.
The International Business Times on Jan. 19 reports that the other nuns at the convent had no idea that she was pregnant. The nun's traditional garb, the habit, is big and baggie, so hiding a pregnancy would be easy. The other nuns did however notice that she did gain weight.
Counting backwards, one of her superiors at the convent said that Sister Roxanne became pregnant when she returned to her home country of El Salvador last year. Sister Roxanne is from El Salvador, but she was living at a convent outside of Rome and caring for the elderly in a home there.
The nun, now known worldwide for this birth, needed to travel back to her home country to renew her passport last spring. This is where she ran into a childhood flame and a fleeting encounter rendered her pregnant. She has not named the father.
Delio Lucarelli, the bishop of the town of Rieti, said that Sister Roxanne will be "forced to leave the Little Disciples of Jesus convent and lead a secular life with her infant, away from religious institutions because of the embarrassment her pregnancy caused, reports the IBT." Rieti is the town where the convent that the nun was living in is located.
You would think that in today's world a nun having a baby wouldn't cause the problems that Sister Roxanne is about to face because she became pregnant. The Catholic religion is very strict in some countries, like the nun's homeland of El Salvador. Sister Roxanne has already said she cannot go back there because of the shame she has caused.
So what happens next to this new mother? Don Fabirzio Borrello, the local pastor in the town where Sister Roxanne was living in the convent said that he believed her when she said she had no idea she was pregnant. Apparently her superior doesn't believe she was hiding the pregnancy, it was just that she was unaware of it. The bishop of Rieti, Delio Lucarelli, made the decision for the nun to put her priority of raising the child over being a nun.
The local pastor and the mayor of Rieti have offered to help Sister Roxanne. It is believed that Pope Francis, who has not publically reacted to the nun's birth as of yet, will not condemn the child. His teachings of love over tradition will most likely hold true in this case.
A nun giving birth is not something taken lightly. It is a frightening experience for the nun who stands to be ostracized, which presents as a hard life for her and her baby. This wouldn't be a problem in the U.S., but in other parts of the world a nun that gives birth to a baby is treated like she is wearing a scarlet letter.
Pope Francis, who the nun named her baby boy after, will hopefully agree with the local church's decision to help the woman because his words could make life much easier. He has already surprised the world with his modern thinking.