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In fact, the inspiration for the documentary The Central Park Five, which airs tonight at 8 on Prairie Public TV, is the like-titled book that Sarah Burns wrote about the infamous case of five New York City youths who were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted for the 1989 rape of a female jogger in Central Park.
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BISMARCK, N.D. – May 10, 2013 – As the breeding season for ducks in the Prairie Pothole Region gets into full swing, the world will be celebrating International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) on Saturday, May 11. As IMBD draws near, Ducks Unlimited says habitat conditions in the continent's "Duck Factory" are above average.
"Late snows have melted to refill wetlands, and we expect to see plenty of breeding ducks and waterbirds with the conditions we have," said Dr. Johann Walker, DU director of conservation planning at the Great Plains Regional Office in Bismarck.
The PPR, which extends from South Dakota to Saskatchewan, produces up to 70 percent of the continent's ducks. The extensive wetlands and intact grasslands provide safe nesting habitat for many different species of migratory birds. Walker says grassland songbirds, shorebirds and raptors have also established territories and are beginning to lay eggs.
"I'm expecting the first pintails and mallards to start nesting a couple of weeks later than usual because of the late spring," Walker said.
The PPR's small, seasonal wetlands are the key to the productivity of this region for breeding ducks. These wetlands provide abundant protein-rich invertebrate foods that female ducks need to produce a clutch of eggs and are ducklings' primary food. Last year's wetland conditions were excellent across much of the PPR, resulting in a record breeding duck population of 48.6 million.
Walker cautions that the sustainability of today's healthy waterfowl populations depends on intact wetlands and secure grassland habitat for nesting in the future. "DU remains concerned about wetland drainage and the loss of native prairie and Conservation Reserve Program grassland that continues in the PPR," he said.
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We will challenge your child to be the best she can be. Regular practices, conditioning, and access to the best pitching, hitting, and catching instructors in the area will give your daughter the opportunity to reach her full potential. All players are required to take hitting lessons, and pitchers and catchers are required to take lessons as well. We will teach the fundamentals of the game and build upon them to teach your daughter the way to play the game at its highest level.
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In his tragedies from "Titus Andronicus" to "Macbeth," William Shakespeare subjected his ill-fated characters to all sorts of horrible depravity. Sons baked in pies. Duplicitous daughters. Murder-plotting wives.
So it's no shocker that "The Counselor" -- a thinking person's thriller by novelist Cormac McCarthy, who has been hailed as a Shakespeare of the American West -- is awash in blood, foreshadowing, manipulative characters and shattering consequences.
But what is surprising is how this glossy and depressing production with its top-shelf cast -- Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz -- winds up as fatally flawed as one of the Bard's lead characters.
With all that talent, expectations are high, especially after the Coen brothers did such a stellar job of adapting McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" for the screen. What's delivered, though, is an overstated, overbearing bummer. Thankfully, this downer isn't opening over the holidays.
That's not to say there aren't a number of individual elements that make it stand out -- dialogue that begs to be remembered and quoted, another Oscar-worthy turn from Bardem with his high-voltage hair and flashy clothing, and director Ridley Scott's beautifully orchestrated scenes of graphic carnage.
But the plot about a hotshot lawyer -- called only the Counselor (Fassbender) -- whose partnership with nightclub owner Reiner (Bardem) circuitously leads him and his sexy love interest, Laura (Cruz), into the take-no-prisoners world of drug cartels is viciously bleak. What's worse, it's downright obvious.
While Shakespeare understood the importance of nuance in foreshadowing, McCarthy's screenplay all but screams it at us. When one character yammers about unfathomable acts of violence, we suspect that said acts will happen. They do.
Scott, ("Gladiator," "Prometheus") cagily plays on that sense of dread with the moody visual help of director of photography Dariusz Wolski. But they can't overcome the fact that the action is all but blatantly telegraphed, even as McCarthy keeps shuttling his characters around from Amsterdam to Mexico.
Neither can Diaz, who lands the juicy role of Malkina, a morally corrupt predator with an insatiable appetite for money. She sinks her talons into Reiner -- who lusts after and wisely fears her -- then slinks around seeking fresh prey. In early scenes Diaz, with her two-toned hair and showy wardrobe, has a heyday with the femme fatale part, especially when she hangs out with Laura and the contrasts between the two become glaringly apparent.
Diaz's portrayal is undermined by a silly bit when Malkina confesses her sins to a priest (Edgar Ramirez, utterly wasted). It's an embarrassing attempt at levity that should have wound up on the cutting room floor.
In its place, you wish McCarthy would have expanded more on the roles of supporting characters -- from Rosie Perez's incarcerated mother, who is a client of the Counselor, to Brad Pitt's more substantial part as the Counselor's contact person.
This movie just isn't all that interested in them. It's too preoccupied with creating a dismal and tortured view of what the world can become when we make bad decisions. The result is an exhaustingly downbeat experience.
So just when is the next showing of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2"?
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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - August 25, 2014) - As Ebola continues to spread in West Africa, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is accelerating its response to this unprecedented outbreak. To aid in this effort, the CDC Foundation today announced a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) for the CDC Foundation's Global Disaster Response Fund, which is contributing essential materials and assistance to advance CDC's response to the Ebola outbreak.
"The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented and unfortunately it's likely to get worse before it gets better," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "However, with support from the CDC Foundation's Global Disaster Response Fund, staff on the ground will be in a better position to try to stop and prevent further spread of this devastating disease."
The latest facts from CDC cite more than 2,600 cases of Ebola and 1,400 deaths in the four affected countries. CDC has activated its Emergency Operations Center to help coordinate technical assistance and control activities with partners. As part of its response, CDC also has deployed more than 70 public health experts to Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone and plans to send additional public health experts to the affected countries to expand current response activities.
"The spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa represents a global public health crisis," said Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We are privileged to assist CDC in its heroic efforts to contain this outbreak, and we are confident of their ability to control this scourge -- provided they have the support required to do the job. Additional resources are urgently needed, and we encourage other funders to respond as well."
Some immediate needs for CDC staff working with local in-country personnel include personal protective equipment, thermal scanners, infection control training and laptop computers for communication and disease tracking. In addition, isolation beds and Ebola treatment centers are in short supply. Another critical need is funding for emergency operations centers in the four countries impacted by the outbreak. There will be unanticipated needs as well in the response to this epidemic. Funds donated to the CDC Foundation can be deployed and put to work where needed with CDC and its partners.
Charles Stokes, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation said, "We thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its generous contribution to our Global Disaster Response Fund. We hope other donors follow their lead and provide much needed support for the West African Ebola outbreak response."
Individual or corporate contributions to the CDC Foundation's Global Disaster Response Fund can be made on the CDC Foundation's website (www.cdcfoundation.org/ebola-outbreak) or by phone, fax or mail. To discuss giving opportunities or an in-kind donation, contact the CDC Foundation at 1-888-880-4CDC.
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability. He addres...
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For basic one-to-one voice or video calling solutions, WebRTC has proven to be a very powerful technology. Although WebRTC's core functionality is to provide secure, real-time p2p media streaming, leveraging native platform features and server-side components brings up new communication capabilities for web and native mobile applications, allowing for advanced multi-user use cases such as video broadcasting, conferencing, and media recording.
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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Aspose.Total for .NET is the most complete package of all file format APIs for .NET as offered by Aspose. It empowers developers to create, edit, render, print and convert between a wide range of popular document formats within any .NET, C#, ASP.NET and VB.NET applications. Aspose compiles all .NET APIs on a daily basis to ensure that it contains the most up to date versions of each of Aspose .NET APIs. If a new .NET API or a new version of existing APIs is released during the subscription peri...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long dev...
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT – especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic...
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19th Cloud Expo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterpri...
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Akana has announced the availability of version 8 of its API Management solution. The Akana Platform provides an end-to-end API Management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. It is available as a SaaS platform, on-premises, and as a hybrid deployment. Version 8 introduces a lot of new functionality, all aimed at offering customers the richest API Management capabilities in a way that is easier than ever for API and app developers to use.
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Kubernetes, Docker and containers are changing the world, and how companies are deploying their software and running their infrastructure. With the shift in how applications are built and deployed, new challenges must be solved. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, will discuss the implications of containerized applications/infrastructures and their impact on the enterprise. In a real world example based on Kubernetes, he will show how to ...
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Personalization has long been the holy grail of marketing. Simply stated, communicate the most relevant offer to the right person and you will increase sales. To achieve this, you must understand the individual. Consequently, digital marketers developed many ways to gather and leverage customer information to deliver targeted experiences. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lou Casal, Founder and Principal Consultant at Practicala, discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated our abil...
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With so much going on in this space you could be forgiven for thinking you were always working with yesterday's technologies. So much change, so quickly. What do you do if you have to build a solution from the ground up that is expected to live in the field for at least 5-10 years? This is the challenge we faced when we looked to refresh our existing 10-year-old custom hardware stack to measure the fullness of trash cans and compactors.
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Part D: Bending the Medicare Cost Curve
Part D: Bending the Medicare Cost Curve
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The numbers are in. In its February annual budget forecast, the Congressional Budget Office dropped its 10-year Medicare spending projection by $137 billion, citing the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit as the single biggest factor for the lowered estimate. How big? A whopping 75 percent of the reduced projection was attributed to a drop in Part D spending.
Part D's 10-year projection has now been reduced by over $100 billion the past three years, and these projections are almost half of their initial estimated cost when the program was enacted seven years ago. Through market-based competition, Part D is successfully able to offer a mix of plans to help seniors access medicines which, in turn, helps them adhere to doctors' orders. This improved use of medicines helps lower other health costs, such as hospitalizations and expensive procedures.
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This latest budget forecast is further proof that Part D is a major asset. Let's not ruin a very good thing with unsound policy proposals.


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I have a very awkward feeling, that iTunes is getting more and more sluggish for each iteration. Makes me wonder if they are deliberately making it so, in order to have me purchase a newer Mac. (I'm still using a Mac dual 2.5 Ghz a la 2004.)
Why does my AppFresh still say 7.3.1 is availably even though I'm using 7.3.2?
yep, had the same problem, couldn't find itunes - odd somehow. so i decided to post itunes 7.3 for all iusethis users ;-)
Looking into it and blaming marcus at the moment, will research with Marcus when he gets back.
Yeah, kinda odd. The description is a little funky too. I'm not too sure why they need the blurb about the iPhone on there.
Hopefully someone can work out what happened and get it sorted again. Arne and Marcus, this means you!
Quite interesting, el_cravito. Maybe the original "maintainer" deleted the entry.
What happened to the previous iTunes entry, with a few THOUSAND users? I can't find anywhere. Not even in my profile.
And now there's this new entry with 1 (one!) user. (July 10th 2007, 11:50 GMT).
Strange... Did someone delete the previous iTunes entry by mistake?
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Pocono area residents will have a chance to sound off about how utility companies dealt with the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.
A meeting will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Edwardian Room of the Fernwood Hotel and Convention Center.
Representatives of the state Public Utility Commission, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, and the electric utilities will be on hand.
State Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20, who organized the meeting, referred to the numerous complaints from constituents about the difficulties they encountered in getting power restored.
"The purpose is to have as broad an exchange of information as possible," she said. "We've heard a lot of specific suggestions from across the community on how the process can be improved. It is important to give those affected a chance to talk to the individuals who have the power and the responsibility to make things better in the future."
At the meeting, state officials will first hear from county and municipal officials, emergency management and first responders, and business and community leaders. Then residents will have a chance to be heard.
"It appears that some of the changes implemented since last year helped," said state Rep. Rosemary Brown, R-189, "but there is much more to be done."
Information booths also will be set up by the PUC, PEMA and the utility companies to provide an overview of the storm event and restoration efforts, to share an update on recent activities, and to answer individual questions.
"The companies need to hear about the challenges faced during the storm and our recommendations for improvements," said State Rep. Mario Scavello, R-176. "The PUC has asked the utilities to come back with a better plan, and community input will be critical as they conduct their evaluations."
Residents are asked to limit their remarks to 3 to 5 minutes per person to allow as many people as possible a chance to speak. Residents can register to speak at the meeting a first-come, first-served basis.
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New analysis projects nearly half of 2.14 million sequestration-related job losses to hit small business
Arlington, Va. – A new analysis of an economic report concludes that 956,181 small business jobs nationwide are among those at risk under sequestration, a finding that heightens concern about widespread job losses across defense and non-defense employers of all sizes starting in 2013.
The analysis updates a study conducted for the Aerospace Industries Association in July by Dr. Stephen S. Fuller, Dwight Schar Faculty Chair and director for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, in conjunction with Chmura Economics and Analytics.
The study projected a loss of 2.14 million American jobs in the event that Budget Control Act mandates take effect on January 2, 2013 – the date on which $1.2 trillion budget cuts begin to impact federal programs.
"Further analysis shows that nearly half of all sequestration job losses would come from small businesses," said Fuller. "This is a crucial finding given the importance of small business job creation to the economy and their role as sources of innovation for national defense."
Fuller's analysis concludes that approximately 45 percent of all job losses resulting from cuts to DOD and non-DOD programs in the first year of sequestration would come from businesses with 500 or fewer employees.
"At a time when our leaders are calling for policies to help small businesses boost their capacity for job creation, sequestration threatens to drain the economy of a vital source of economic growth and innovation," said AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey. "Clearly, sequestration is not only a concern for prime contractors and international manufacturers. Sequestration has the potential to do equal harm to Main Street and Wall Street."
According to the Small Business Administration, 20 percent of Defense Department prime contracts and 35 percent of DOD subcontracts in 2011 were awarded to small firms. In 2011, 18 percent of NASA prime contracts went to small businesses and 38 percent of its subcontracts to small companies. Additionally, between two-thirds and three-quarters of defense industrial purchases are directed to small suppliers, many of which are the only source of specialty parts and technologies for the U.S. military.
"The threat of sequestration is already causing my company to be very cautious," said Joe Murphy, chairman of The Ferco Aerospace Group, a small family-owned aerospace sheet metal fabrication business in Franklin, Ohio. "Congress doesn't realize how quickly manufacturing capability will be lost with sequestration. It can take 12 months or longer to train a welder and once those skills are lost, it will take months to recover."
The SBA says that small firms employ half of all private sector employees. According the U.S. Census Bureau, small businesses create 90 percent of all new jobs on an annual basis.
"The last thing this country can afford is legislative trickery like automatic sequester cuts that knock the legs out from underneath small and minority businesses that generate 90 percent of new jobs every year," said Roger A. Campos, president and CEO of the Minority Business Roundtable. "Sequestration budget cuts set to hit in January will destroy a total of over 2 million American jobs, half in smaller businesses. The uncertainty has already caused business owners to stop hiring. It will take bipartisan agreement to repeal sequestration and replace it with a smarter approach to the budget and debt reduction. Let's not put small businesses on the chopping block."
"This important report highlights how small businesses – the backbone of our economy – are especially vulnerable to sequestration," said Mackenzie Eaglen, resident fellow at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies. "From a national security perspective, letting the avoidable occurrence of sequestration force small businesses to exit the defense industry or go out of business altogether would not only hurt our economy but taxpayers."
State-by-state numbers and Dr. Fuller's analysis may be viewed at www.secondtonone.org.


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JavaFX + Echo Nest
By Rakesh Menon on Nov 12, 2009
The Echo Nest provides series of web based solutions for better search, recommendation and interactivity on the music web. The Echo Nest API allows you to call methods that respond in REST style XML. Please refer to API documentation for more information.
They also provide a series of data feeds in various formats. Below application is updated version of DraggableMP3Player sample. Now it gets data from "Found Audio Feed" using JavaFX RssTask APIs.
<script src="http://dl.javafx.com/1.2/dtfx.js"></script> <script src="/rakeshmenonp/resource/MP3Player/MP3Player.js"></script>
To launch click on above image or
Type name of artist in TextField and press enter key. It will get the list of songs using Echo Nest feed. Click play to listen to songs! Simple! It will save the last searched artist name using JavaFX Storage APIs.
Note: Most of the media were in MP3 format (not streaming) and hence may take a while to download and play. Please try to incorporate more APIs and write new player..
<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '2';</script> <script language="javascript" src="/rakeshmenonp/resource/MP3Player/zoneit.js"></script>


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State can evict homeless campers in Concord, judge rules
The homeless don't have a right to camp on state land, a judge ruled this week. The court ruling allows the state to evict homeless residents from its land around Concord.
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- SXSW 2013: Hot festival bands headed to the Bay Area
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- SXSW Film 2013: Stevie Nicks documentary should delight fans
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City: Vancouver, BC
Website: http://japandroids.com/
Local shows: 9 p.m. April 16-17, the New Parish, Oakland; $22-$25, www.ticketfly.com.
Download these: "Younger Us," "The House That Heaven Built"
The skinny: It's easy to compare the Japandroids to the White Stripes and the Black Keys, since those are the two best known alt-rock duos of recent years. Yet, this Canadian twosome definitely has a different, though equally enticing, sound than either of those touchstone acts. The Japandroids are more of a garage-rock outfit, one that seemingly favors noisy pop over bluesy rock. It also puts on an extremely energetic live show, which had a crowd cheering and chanting like European soccer fans at SXSW. Brian King rips at his guitar like Dave Grohl, while David Prowse pounds his drums like, well, Dave Grohl.
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Retirement planning is the focus of a series of free breakfast seminars presented by the Financial Planning Association of the San Joaquin Valley.
Seth Shapiro, an attorney with Herum Crabtree in Stockton, will lead the first event Feb. 7 in Stockton on estate planning and getting one's legal affairs in order.
Upcoming topics include securing your retirement; dealing with end-of-life care issues; and saving for health care in retirement and long-term-care options.
Previously, the association sponsored an annual one-day exposition of financial advice and services. This new series is intended to be more focused, said Christopher Olsen, an association spokesman and a financial planner in Lodi.
"We're trying something different," he said. "We wanted to change it, have it be something where we could aim for a specific group."
Keeping the Gold in Your Golden Years will be held at the Brookside Country Club, with a light breakfast served at 7:30 a.m. and wrapping up by 9.Reservations are free, but attendees can make a $10 donation to Hospice of San Joaquin.
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Start around 13:10 (LP time) when the texture of the jam changes. By 13:40 the similarity is evident, and this rolls for a full minute until it flows into the DWD-style jam.
Set 1: DividedDivided Sky, Wilson[1], It's Ice > Fee[2] > ATRAll Things Reconsidered, SlothThe Sloth > Paul and Silas > Horn > Reba[3], Sweet Adeline[4], SampleSample in a Jar
Set 2: Demand > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope, Halley'sHalley's Comet > CurtainThe Curtain > McGruppMcGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Simple -> Sanity > Llama, Dog Faced Boy[5], Poor Heart[5], Cavern[6], Carolina[4], DwDDown with Disease
Encore: Rocky Top
[1] Simpsons signal.
[2] Trey sang verses through megaphone.
[3] No whistling.
[4] Without microphones.
[5] Acoustic; without microphones.
[6] Older, alternate lyrics. Acoustic; without microphones.
· Down with Disease jam in Run Like an Antelope
· Mike's Song tease in It's Ice
· (They Long to Be) Close to You quote in Reba
Noteworthy Jams: Reba (highly recommended), Run Like an Antelope (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 8.72
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Wilson included a Simpsons signal. Trey teased Mike's Song in It's Ice. Trey sang the verses of Fee through a megaphone. Reba contained a quote of (They Long to Be) Close to You from Trey and did not have the whistling ending. Sweet Adeline and Carolina were performed without microphones. Dog Faced Boy through Cavern, which contained the older, alternate lyrics, were performed acoustic without microphones. This hot Antelope included a Disease-style jam segment.
Song Distribution:
4 Hoist
3 Rift
3 A Picture of Nectar
3 Junta
2 Stash
2 Lawn Boy
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
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Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, up to their collective neck in preparations for a big tour of Asia that will include first-time-ever visits to Beijing and Macau, have been polishing up the repertoire they will be showing off. Soloist Yuja Wang, who will accompany them, was here running through the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 earlier this week, and Thursday and Friday, it's her fellow pianist Lang Lang's turn with the same composer's Third Concerto. Also on the program with Lang Lang is the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, and Henry Cowell's "Music 1957," both of which will be showcased on the tour, as will Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Lou Harrison's "The Family of the Court" from "Pacifika Rondo." The tour, which begins Wednesday, touches down in six cities, including Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei, Taiwan, and ends with concerts in Tokyo on Nov. 19-20.
Tickets to Thursday and Friday night's 8 p.m. concerts with Lang Lang are $15-$156, available at 415-864-6000 or www.sfsymphony.org.
SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT: Many of the future members of our professional symphonies are honing their skills today in well-regarded youth orchestras; as luck would have it, three of the Bay Area's best are all giving their first concerts of the season this weekend. First up is the Oakland Youth Orchestra, which has programs at 1 p.m. Saturday in Rossmoor's Del Valle Clubhouse and 3 p.m. Sunday at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. The 75-member orchestra, in existence since 1986 and aligned with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, welcomes John Kendall Bailey as new principal conductor this season. This weekend's concerts, which are free, will feature Copland's "Fanfare for a Common Man," Barber's Overture to "The School for Scandal," Ginastera's Suite from "Estancia" and Dvorak's Symphony No. 8. Go to www.oyo.org for more information.
The Young People's Symphony Orchestra, which, at 76, is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second-oldest in the nation, is teaming up with Lynn Morrow's 120-member Oakland Symphony Chorus for an ambitious season opener at 8 p.m. Saturday at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church. The 95 young musicians, who come from 26 cities in five Bay Area counties, will perform the monumental and uplifting "A German Requiem" by Johannes Brahms. David Ramadanoff conducts the orchestra, chorus and guest soloists soprano Heidi Moss and baritone Zachary Gordin. Award-winning American composer Christopher Theofanidis' "Rainbow Body" is also on the program. Tickets, $15-$20, are at 510-849-9776 or www.ypsomusic.net.
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, after participating for the first time in the San Francisco Symphony's annual Dia de los Muertos community concert the previous day, will open its own season under conductor Donata Cabrera's baton at 2 p.m. Sunday in Davies Symphony Hall. On the program is Aaron Copland's "El Salon Mexico," Jan Sibelius' Symphony No. 1 and the Mozart Oboe Concerto, featuring the SFSYO 2012 Concerto Competition champion Liam Boissert, a senior at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco, as soloist. Tickets, $12 general admission and $45 reserved, are at 415-864-6000 or www.sfsymphony.org.
THE AX MAN COMETH: Pianist Emanuel Ax is a familiar and much beloved visitor to these parts, but he has never before appeared with the Bay Area's preeminent experts in period music, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. But conductor Nicholas McGegan has engaged him for an all-Beethoven program, and there's a twist. Ax will be the soloist for the performance of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, a work he has doubtless traversed many times -- but this will be his first foray with it on a period fortepiano, the instrument that was king during Beethoven's time.
Beethoven's 12 Contredanses for Orchestra are also on the program, which is rounded out with his Symphony No. 4. A fleet and lighter work composed in the earlier, more formally classical style, the Fourth is an underrated gem, eclipsed by the more powerful and overarchingly Romantic Third and Fifth symphonies. But composer Robert Schumann recognized its genius, labeling it "a Grecian maiden between two Norse Giants." Perhaps its special virtues will emerge with bristling clarity in a period performance. There are four performances of the Philharmonia Baroque's program: 8 p.m. Nov. 8 in Atherton's Center for Performing Arts, 8 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco and 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at First Congregational Church in Berkeley. Tickets, $30-$105, are at 415-392-4400 or www.philharmonia.org.
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Monday's letters: Political arrogance
Published: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 3:40 p.m.
To the editor: City, county, state and federal politicians do not protect your property or your life. Government bureaucrats do not protect your property or your life.
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect the rights of the people from the government.
The World War II, Vietnam, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, and our national parks, do not belong to politicians, they belong to the American people. These open-air memorials and our national parks should never be closed to the American people. A federal law is needed to protect our memorials and national parks from the arrogance of politicians.
There's the never-ending psycho-babble regarding military assault rifles, which are fully automatic, and in 1934 the sale of fully automatic firearms to the American public was banned.
The Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment do not say it is the right of the state or federal government — it is the right of the people.
Richard Clark
Not a chance
To the editor: I recently read a column in the Times-News by Ron Kauffman in which he implied that the people in this country need an assault rifle AR-15 to protect themselves from the government.
I am sure Mr. Kauffman knows that the government has access to F-16 fighter jets, big bombers and little bombers, big bombs and smart bombs, big ships and little ships, big guns and little guns as well as drones. If he thinks the citizens could defend themselves against these weapons with AR-15 assault rifles, I bet he would buy stock in a company that plans to build a wooden bridge to the moon.
Ken Weaver
'Kick the can'
To the editor: Several decades ago and during the summer months, neighborhood kids played "kick the can" after supper until dark. Once the can was kicked, we all ran as fast as we could and hid. Then we tried to reach home without getting caught by the goal protector.
Congress kicks the can down the road and hides. The members need to come out from behind the trees and deal with reality. They have allowed the president to usurp powers that are their responsibility. Their endless political games are childish and destructive, leaving the taxpayers without a goal protector.
We learned in grade school why the government cannot print money. It causes inflation. Of course, it's not printed now. It's digitized and is a phony double-entry bookkeeping transaction.
Eileen Sheehan
Harmful actions
To the editor: Rep. Mark Meadows was the architect of the government shutdown, urging John Boehner to threaten a shutdown to defund Obamacare. He said, "The overwhelming majority say that they don't want the bad effects of this law, so I'm fighting on their behalf and believe I'm representing what they elected me to do."
This "financially conservative Sunday school teacher" closed Head Start programs, caused retailers to stop accepting WIC vouchers as payment for food for low-income women and children, closed national parks, delayed mortgage applications and stopped service member tuition payments, just to name a few issues he created. Standard & Poor's said the shutdown "to date has taken $24 billion out of the economy, and shaved at least 0.6 percent off annualized fourth-quarter 2013 GDP growth."
Meadows' actions have directly hurt the U.S. economy, damaged the lives of many middle-class working folks, and is slowing our recovery from the recession.
Did you ask Mr. Meadows "to represent you" by taking the government hostage in an attempt to defund a law that has been upheld by the Supreme Court? I don't know anyone who did! We need to remind him what he was elected to do for us.
Gary Crider
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Q. Why do we need a new health form?
A. Based on input from individual Scouters, the Order of the Arrow, local councils, health and safety and risk management committees, and high-adventure bases, there was confusion on when to use any of more than 20 different health forms in use across the nation. There was also an immediate need to update a medical form for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. The Health and Safety Committee took on the challenge and the opportunity to establish one Annual Health and Medical Record for all ages and known risks. It is simple and yet comprehensive enough to be used for both health and wellness evaluations as well as emergency situations.
Q. What are the major changes?A. A health history is still sufficient for typical activities lasting less than 72 hours (Parts A and C of the new form—similar to the old Class 1 form). For activities lasting longer than 72 hours, a medical evaluation by a health-care provider is now required annually (Part B). For high-adventure activities for which medical care may be delayed, restrictions based on standardized height/weight ratios are now mandatory.
Q. When does the Annual Health and Medical Record go into effect? I am used to the old form and would rather use it.A. Transition and change can be exciting and easy, especially if it positions the BSA for the future. Everyone should begin using the Annual Health and Medical Record immediately. The existing stock of Class 1, 2, and 3 forms can continue to be used while supplies last in 2009. The only supported form effective January 1, 2010, is the Annual Health and Medical Record. Its use will be mandatory for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
Q. Where can I find the Annual Health and Medical Record?A. It can be found at your council's Scout shop and is posted in a downloadable PDF format on Scouting Safely on Scouting.org.
Q. Can I keep a record of my Annual Health and Medical Record somewhere at my council's office or online?A. Districts and councils are discouraged from keeping any medical records, whether digital or paper, unless required by local or state ordinances. However, the electronic version of the Annual Health and Medical Record is intended to be filled out and saved by individual Scouts and Scouters. The electronic Annual Health and Medical Record should not be transmitted via e-mail or stored by units, districts, or councils. Units are encouraged to keep paper copies of their participants' Annual Health and Medical Records in a confidential medical file for quick access in an emergency and to be prepared for all adventures.
Q. The old Class 1, 2, and 3 forms were based on age. What about the Annual Health and Medical Record?A. There is no longer a difference in the exam interval based on age. The Annual Health and Medical Record is for everyone.
Q. There are three parts to the Annual Health and Medical Record, which part do I need to fill out?A. All participants should fill out Parts A and C for any event. Part B (the physical examination) should be completed if you are participating in an event that exceeds 72 consecutive hours, such as jamborees, summer camps, and Wood Badge training courses. Part B also is required for participation in a resident camp setting or when the nature of the activity is strenuous and demanding such as service projects, work weekends, or high-adventure treks. It is important to note that if the event will take your unit beyond a radius wherein emergency care is more than 30 minutes by ground transportation, the height/weight chart found at the bottom of Part B should be strictly followed. Please note that individual units, districts, or councils may have policies in place to exceed this standard based on their unique risks.
Q. How often will I need to renew/update my Annual Health and Medical Record?A. This form will need to be updated annually, just as many schools or sporting leagues require an annual update. Many changes can happen throughout a year, including changes in disease processes, medication, address, and insurance.
Q. What is meant by "Annual" and "valid for 12 calendar months"?A. If you complete your record on March 9, 2009, it will be valid through March 2010, but you must complete a new Annual Health and Medical Record by April 1, 2010. Please note that the 2010 National Scout Jamboree will have a specific window when the record must be submitted.
Q. I have several children in the program and a health care plan that does not provide cheap co-pays for physicals. What can be done to divert the increased cost of participation?A. Many units, districts, and councils offer physical exams. Facilitating such an event could be a positive experience, as well as decreasing costs. Several county clinics offer physicals at a very low price in order to assist children across the nation maintain a well and healthy life.
Q. I heard a physical for an adult can be very expensive. Is that true?A. As participants age, physicians (MDs, DOs), NPs, and PAs may require extra testing in order to approve and/or clear their participation in events. Participants who are on medications should already be checked annually.
Q. Do I really need to explain everything about myself or my child, such as learning disabilities or depression? I don't want myself or my child to be treated differently.A. As hard as it may be to share these aspects about yourself or your child, this information is needed to structure safe activities and is imperative when giving emergency care. Please be thorough and honest. Our experience also indicates that a Scouting activity is not the place to experiment with or stop medications, especially those that address these issues.
Q. Why do I need to put my child's or my own social security number on the record?A. It is your choice as to whether you fill in this number; however, in many states, medical care cannot be rendered without it.
Q. What does "grade completed" mean?A. If your son has completed the 6th grade and is currently enrolled in 7th grade, you would enter 6th grade here. You may always update your information more frequently than annually.
Q. What if I don't want to have my child immunized for tetanus or other immunizations due to religious or philosophical reasons, do I have to sign a release?A. Yes, the recommendations of the immunization task force were accepted by the Health and Safety Support Committee in October 2008 and are listed on Scouting.org under Scouting Safely. If you choose not have your child immunized, the release form can also be found there. Declining or inadequate immunizations will require verification by a certified and licensed physician (MD, DO), NPs, or PAs that a communicable disease is not present. Inadequately immunized participants will be identified so that they can be located in case of a necessity for isolation or quarantine as per local public health official directives
Q. Can I decline medical treatment?A. Yes, but a release must be signed. The release can be found under Scouting Safely on Scouting.org. This practice is highly discouraged because this choice can put the entire unit at risk, both mentally and physically. Declining medical treatment will require verification by a certified and licensed physician (MD or DO), NP, or PA that a communicable disease is not present.
Q. Can I use another medical exam, such as a school sports exam, and attach it to the Annual Health and Medical Record?A. No. In an effort to maintain standards of preparedness and fitness for participation, and to make sure that the medical professional conducting the examination knows the various outdoor adventures than can occur in Scouting, the BSA requires completion of Part B. Part B also includes the height/weight chart for high adventure situation where emergency medical care is not readily available.
Q. Why can't I use the Annual Health and Medical Record for participation at the high-adventure bases?A. The high-adventure bases have very specific activities that are unique to each of them. They each provided valuable input to position the Annual Health and Medical Record for use in the future. YOU are responsible to Be Prepared for your high-adventure trek and understand and follow all high-adventure base rules, procedures, and guidelines.
Q. Why is there a talent release on the Annual Health and Medical Record? It doesn't really have anything to do with health.A. In response to requests from several councils to eliminate paperwork, we have included the talent release as part of the Annual Health and Medical Record.
Q. Can I still use my son's Class 2 medical form through 2009? It was supposed to be good for 36 months.A. Yes, if it is still current, unless your council, district, or unit states otherwise. However, remember the Annual Health and Medical Record is required for national Scouting events, including the National Order of the Arrow Conference and the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, and needs to be in place for activities after January 1, 2010.
Q. Our camp is at least 30 minutes from the local hospital by ambulance or EMS. Does this mean that we automatically have to meet the height/weight requirements for all activities at the camp?A. While response time for basic or advanced life support should be a consideration for a camp's emergency action plan, it is not the record's intent. If your travels by foot, bicycle, horseback, afloat, or whatever the mode of transportation take you more than 30 minutes off of an accessible roadway where in an emergency vehicle can reach you, you will need to meet the height/weight requirements.
Q. When does the height/weight chart apply? We have differing opinions in our unit/district. A. When the Annual Health and Medical Record goes into effect, the height/weight chart will apply in the following known adventure activities:
The height/weight chart generally would not apply (unless your lodge, unit, district, or council says it does) in the following:
Q. Is the height/weight chart mandatory for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree?A. No. However, if you review the risk factors on www.bsajamboree.org under the Be Prepared tab, you can see that we recommend a body mass index (BMI) of less than 30 (obese) for adult staff positions requiring moderate to high physical exertion. We recommend that youth fall within the 5th and 85th percentiles. As with past jamborees, this 100th Anniversary jamboree promises that everyone will be walking at least 5 miles per day. In order to make this the best, most exciting, fun-filled, safest jamboree ever, being prepared and in the best Scouting shape possible is a must. Youth with BMIs over the 95th percentile and adults with BMIs over 40 (morbidly obese) should reconsider participation. This subject was discussed in the January 2009 issue of Scouting magazine. Watch the jamboree newsletters and Web site for more information.


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- SXSW 2013: Joy Formidable comes to Fillmore
- Best shows at SXSW 2013: Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Nick Cave and more
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- SXSW 2013: 'Broadway Idiot' gets world premiere in Austin
- Billie Joe's ode to recovery
- SXSW 2013 review: Sound City Players rock Austin
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- SXSW Film 2013: `Good Vibrations' is a gem
- SXSW Film 2013: `Finding the Funk' is insightful look into genre
- SXSW 2013: Green Day looks to rebound at big Austin concert
- SXSW 2013 review: Nick Cave at his finest with new album
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There is this place, high up in the Appalachian Mountains, where even the police fear to tread.
Yet, young Charlotte (played by the striking Emma Greenwell) will go there. She must, if she wants to try to find her sister, whose last known whereabouts was at that area's highly intimidating Church of One Accord. She's is, however, smart enough to take along some muscle — in the form of brawny ex-Marine Wayne (star-in-the-making Brendan McCarthy).
That's the set up for "Holy Ghost People," a relentless psychological thriller that features a solid script and even better acting. The best of the latter comes from the always-convincing Joe Egender, who plays snake-handling preacher Brother Billy, the leader of the bizarre Church of One Accord.
If you like missing person films, where you aren't sure who should be trusted and who shouldn't, then it's worth seeing "Holy Ghost People" when it eventually comes out.
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This year renewed our hope in the future of web and mobile design. A handful of services, apps, individuals, and trends showed us a more beautiful, elegant digital world than we've ever seen before, and we're actually looking forward to highlighting them.
Last year was completely mixed, full of good (grid layouts), bad (cartoony mascots), and downright indefensible (unnecessary navigational bullcrap).
This year, while we're totally barfing over a small group of standout horror shows, we're largely impressed. Designers took the best of last year's trends — full-bleed images, truly excellent typography, magazine-worthy interfaces — and extrapolated them to new heights.
Oh, yeah — speaking of typography, don't miss our annual post on the best typefaces of the year.
Behold! The very best design trends of 2013:
Thank the gods skeuomorphism is finally, thoroughly dead. That wrinkled carcass was on life support last year. Someone, somewhere finally pulled the plug, paving the way for well-designed interfaces featuring shapes, colors, blend modes, and every kind of non-wood-grain effect imaginable.
Gone are the fake-shiny overlays of yesteryear! Gone are the hokey "stitched leather" frames, the linen-textured menus, the ruled freaking paper backgrounds, the letterpress-ish drop shadows.
Now, we got us some flat design. It's everywhere. It's nice that iOS 7 rode that train into town, but the train started out long before Jony Ive unveiled his own take on the trend.
Here are a few of our favorite flatness implementations:
Responsive design
Responsive design was an inkling and a promise in 2012. In 2013, the trend continued to blossom with lots of help from organizations like Mozilla, Adobe, and quite a few others.
For those in the dark, responsive UIs automatically resize and reconfigure based on the end user's preferred form factor. If a desktop browser window gets smaller, the site's content changes. Columns automatically adjust and decrease; entire content categories are shuffled around; headlines move in front of images, etc. This all works especially well when you're designing a site that needs to render beautifully on all kinds of smartphones, tablets, TVs, and other connected devices.
Here are our picks for responsive design examples:
Understated elegance
White space. Pure and perfect typography. Minimalism, but with just a few flourishes that take your breath away. A photographer's aesthetic for image treatment.
Designers be classin' the joint up.
Truly, apps like Exposure and (shocker?) Yahoo Weather made a huge impression on us this year with their pitch-perfect design work. These shining examples attained the height of elegance in appearance while maintaining hugely functional user experiences.
Now that, my friends, is the purest essence of good design.
Here are the apps that best showcase the understated-elegance trend:
Making numbers look sexy isn't always a walk in the park, but it's what the new school of dashboards is designed to do.
You start out with something like Google Analytics. You cry a lot. Then comes New Relic, the company that lets you build beautiful, functional, real-time dashboards based on any kind of data you've got. It's like a living infographic without all the stupid stock art.
The newest generation of dashboard-generators, such as Geckoboard and Dash, take it a step further with WYSIWYG, flat-design hotness.
Here are some dashboards we love:
The return of color
Monochromatic schemes and desaturated tones gave way to an explosion of rainbows this year. iOS 7 took the whole thing to an obnoxious, neon extreme, but across the industry, we saw designers playing with palettes full of contrast and complement. Every menu item, every button, every icon seemed to be rendered in a new, playful hue.
Truly, it was like being able to see music on a device screen.
Here's a look at a few color schemes we admired:
Delight in animation
Twirls, flips, bounces, pops — this year, touchable interfaces got a big dose of buttery-smooth animation that brought apps and sites to vivid life.
Some of our favorite examples include Facebook Chat Heads, iOS 7 backgrounds, everything about Windows Phone, iOS game Letterpress, and LinkedIn's mobile apps. Interestingly, Facebook has started open-sourcing some of its tools for creating awesome mobile web animations.
Sadly, we can't show you these animations; they're something you have to experience for yourself.
Slick, skinny iconography
This year, icons and navigation tools got rail-thin and seriously minimalistic, which is exactly what navigation should be: functional, useful, and readily apparent, but out-of-the-way enough so that the user can focus on content.
Thanks in no small part to iOS 7, the new hotness in iconography isn't just flat; it's also moving away from chunky, rounded lines and origami-explosion icons.
Here's what we mean:
Creative typography explosion
Great typography really blew up in 2012 because, you know, web fonts actually increased in number and diversity enough to be actually cool resources in the designer's toolbox. And in 2013, we saw that trend coming into a more mature state.
Yeah, logotypes still shone. But running text, headlines, menu text — everything got a whole lot prettier this year in terms of creative font uses. Overall, designers shied away from serif fonts in running text, and some even insisted that such typography constitutes the work of our Dark Lord Satan. But, you know, whatever.
At this juncture, we strongly encourage you to read/look at our roundup of the very best typefaces from 2013.
Here are a few well-fonted (can we say that?) apps and sites from 2013:
Design for things besides computers
Call 'em connected devices, call 'em wearables, call 'em the Internet of things. Just make sure you're calling 'em something and have a design plan for 'em.
From a class of glasses to a swarm of smart watches to a trove of televisions, the web of the future will demand new designs for new interfaces. And you, dear designer friends, will have to deal with "fragmentation" of the highest order. Your work will have to scale up to flatscreen TV breadth and down to wristwatch miniatures.
Can you dig it?
A closely related trend is the card — you know, those bite-sized rectangles of color and type that convey a snippet of information — a single update or a small collection of commands. Cards dominate the interfaces of Google products such as Glass and Now as well as mobile systems like Windows Phone. And you can bet your biscuits they'll be mighty handy on the new crop of smart watches and fitness wearables.
Here's a look at early card designs:
For 2014
So, kids, here's what we've got: For the basics, keep thinking about strong colors, beautiful fonts, slender navigational controls, and drop-dead flatness.
Put the sizzle on your apps with nonobtrusive but playful animations and sounds.
Start thinking about teeny-tiny screens now so as to be prepared for the oncoming glut of glasses, watches, and wristbands. For TV, think with remotes in mind; for Xbox, think about how to integrate gestural and voice commands. Avoid text entry as much as possible for all on-computer devices.
Definitely use responsive design frameworks and tools to scale your apps for a growing panoply of form factors — complaining about fragmentation will get you nowhere. "When you spit into the wind, it lands on your face."
And always, always find a way to bring the delight. The people are counting on you.
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Hi all... just thought I'd add a quick bit to this forum as when I searched, I couldn't find the answer. Through a bit of trial & error I figured it out. I run PMS on an old (ish) G4 PowerPC Mac Mini. It works great but I didn't really want to leave the computer logged in but I did want PMS available all the time... i.e., have the Mac Mini on but not logged in.
Anyway, it's possible to run PMS "in the background" without having the machine logged in. It's very simple, but you need another computer with an SSH client (to launch the application!). I have a Macbook Pro laptop which has SSH built in to the terminal, but Putty is a good SSH client for Windows machines. Using SSH is beyond the scope of this, but it's not that scary
It's best if you set PMS up (all the shares, options etc.) using the GUI, then save your settings and log out of the computer.
Then open an SSH session to the target machine... e.g.,
> ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
Enter your password when prompted (the first time you'll get asked about saving an RSA key... just say yes)
then run
> sudo open "/Applications/PS3 Media Server.app"
give it a chance and eventually it should return to the prompt. You can see if it's running by doing a
> top
and you should see a "JavaApplication" somewhere near the top of the list. Press q to exit. Note that prefixing the command with sudo tells it to run as root - you need to do this otherwise when you log out of SSH the session dies!
If the PMS doesn't show up in your PS3, you can check the debug.log file by going to
> nano "/Applications/PS3 Media Server App/Contents/Java/debug.log"
and then scrolling through the notes to see what happened and fixing any issues.
If (as in my case) your media is on an external drive attached to the target machine (I have a Lacie drive attached via Firewire) then you'll need to mount the drive so that you can play off it. First thing is to find your drive:
> diskutil list
It will most likely be /dev/disk1 but check in the list just in case (i.e., if you have more than one drive attached)
Then to mount it
> diskutil mountdisk /dev/disk1
Then you'll need to restart PMS. I don't know of a more elegant way of quitting it than killing it. So do a
> top
and in the list find JavaApplication. If there is more than one in the list, then you can figure out which one corresponds to PMS by making it do something... e.g., when you play a video on your PS3, its activity should change a lot. Anyway, once you've found it, take a note of the process ID (in the leftmost column), then issue
> kill <processID>, i.e., if the process ID was 51234 you'd do
> kill 51234
You may need to run kill as root, in which case prefix the command with "sudo", i.e.,
> sudo kill 51234
And that's about it. Hope that's helpful


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New faces
07.03.2013 - German Alzheimer specialist Probiodrug AG has widened its management team by two new positions. Ronald Black will take over as Chief Medical Officer, while Inge Lues has been appointed Chief Development Officer.
Before joining Probiodrug, Black held various senior research roles at Pfizer and at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals prior to its acquisition by Pfizer. Most recently he was the assistant vice president of the firm's Alz-heimer immunotherapy programme. The native of the US has been involved with two New Drug Applications and eight Investigational New Drug filings, and has authored more than 40 publications. From 2008 until joining Probiodrug, Inge Lues acted as an R&D adviser to venture capital and biotechnology companies. During this period, she helped Probiodrug identify drug candidates and advance them into clinical studies. Previously the physiologist was the Executive Vice President Global Drug Discovery and Non-clinical Development at German Merck KGaA (Darmstadt).http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/people/bio-people/2013-01/ronald-black.html


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Press Release: City of Tallahassee
Your chance to be directly involved in the development of the City of Tallahassee's budget is coming soon! Starting next week, the City will host a series of three interactive community budget workshops, as part of the initial phase of crafting the City's Fiscal Year 2014 budget. These meetings will allow citizens to interact with City officials, provide input on the variety of City services and programs and ask questions related to budget priorities.
The workshops are open to the public and will take place as follows:
Monday, April 15 (6-7:30 p.m.) – Walker-Ford Community Center, 2301 Pasco St.
Tuesday, April 16 (3:30-5 p.m.) – Tallahassee Senior Center, 1400 N. Monroe St.
Thursday, April 25 (6-7:30 p.m.) – Good Shepherd Catholic Church Community Center, 4665 Thomasville Rd.
Please note the new time of the April 16 meeting.
While registration is not required, it is strongly encouraged. Registration will assist staff with planning and will help ensure that each venue is prepared for the number of citizens planning to participate. Individuals who pre-register will also be provided a packet of budget information in advance. To register, visit Talgov.com and complete the registration form or call 891-8551.
Additionally, those who pre-register will be entered to win prizes from area businesses. Locally-owned and managed businesses have donated hundreds of dollars in prizes to be awarded to registered attendees present at the workshops.
This is the third year the City has hosted community budget workshops, and this year's meeting comes with a twist! The Tally Twister set up will provide a fun and interactive way for staff to guide participants through the budget and introduce them to City services. In addition, attendees will have an opportunity to participate an in interactive polling process that will instantly display the group's results.
At each workshop, citizens will be given electronic voting devices. There will be an initial survey followed by a brief explanation of the state of the City's budget, how the budget is prepared and economic challenges the City will face this coming fiscal year. Following the presentation, citizens will have an opportunity to play Tally Twister. This fun question and answer game is the City's version of Twister but, will require more brain power than physical flexibility.
Post-game activities will include a final survey in which citizen opinions will be collected electronically and an opportunity to visit City department displays. Refreshments will also be available.
Information and feedback from the public meetings will be summarized and is expected to be presented to the City Commission as part of the 2014 budget process. It will also be posted to Talgov.com as well as the City's Facebook and Twitter accounts to share with the community.
For more information on the budget workshops or City's budget process in general, please visit Talgov.com or contact the Office of Budget and Policy at 891-8551.


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Saturday, August 24, 2013
The Da Vinci Legacy
Posted by Shreve & Co. at 10:46:02 AM in IWC (29)
Artist, scientist, and inventor among other things – Leonardo da Vinci was an exceptional man in his generation who continues to inspire the both the thinker and tinkers of our age. Without him, the current world would have been a different place. IWC's Da Vinci collection is a tribute to the great master, whose greatest passion was the precise measurement of time. The collection's Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date Month Chronograph embodies the revolutionary mind that inspired it. The timepiece is powered by the 89800 calibre that is comprised of 474 parts and controls the watch's multiple functions – a crown-activated rapid advance perpetual calendar, leap year display, stopwatch function with hours, minutes and seconds, an hour and minute counter combined in a single totalizer at 12 o'clock, and the large double-digit display for day and month that is a pioneer in the industry.
Find out more of this collection that stays ahead of its time when you check out IWC at Shreve & Co. with store location at Palo Alto.
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- Feb 10:
- Olympic hockey medal winners
- Olympics: American J.R. Celski fourth in short track speedskating
- Olympics notebook: Halfpipe schedule changed after competitors complain
- Purdy: Sharks land in Sochi, settle into Olympics mode
- Olympics: Julia Mancuso wins bronze in Super Combined
- Winter Olympics: Your Monday morning update
- Olympics: American J.R. Celski fourth in short track 1,500 meters
- Olympics: U.S. women thump Switzerland in hockey
Here's a look at the main events Tuesday and early Wednesday morning.
The overnight schedule included the finals in the women's slopestyle and the women's cross-country sprint, where
Kikkan Randall, above, is attempting to become the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport. The sprint starts at approximately 5:30 a.m., so early risers can watch the race live on NBCSN. For full results, check www.mercurynews.com/sports.
With the team skate complete, attention turns to the traditional figure skating events. The competition starts with the pairs' short program (7 a.m., live on NBCSN). Russians
Tatiana Volosozhar and
Maxim Trankov are the reigning world champs and heavy favorites. The American tandem of
Marissa Castelli and
Simon Shnapir finished fifth in the short portion of the team event.
on the BRINK OF A BREAKTHROUGH?
Erin Hamlin is attempting to become the first American athlete to medal in the luge singles: She's in third place entering the final day (the medal race is at 8:30). And how's this for an upset: NBC has deemed the event worthy of holding for an afternoon broadcast on the mother ship.
Women's ski jumping makes its Olympic debut. The American to watch -- perhaps for many years -- is 19-year-old
Sarah Hendrickson of Park City, Utah. All of 95 pounds (on a 5-foot-4 frame), Hendrickson tore ligaments in her knee in August and was named to the U.S. team despite missing months of competition. She's that good. The event will be shown live at 10:30 a.m. on NBCSN.
Former inline skater
Heather Richardson is the top U.S. medal hope in the 500-meter long track. Projections have her winning the bronze, but if Richardson takes home the gold, she'd become the first American to win the 500 long track since
Bonnie Blair in Norway in 1994. The medal race is scheduled for 6:30 a.m. but won't be shown live.
In a nutshell:
Shaun White attempts to become the first American male to win the same event at three consecutive Winter Olympics. White withdrew from the slopestyle because of concerns about the course and decided to concentrate on his signature event. Now there are questions -- from White and others -- about the viability of the halfpipe's construction. Festivities get under way at 9:30 a.m. (approximately), but don't look for a live broadcast -- this is a prime-time event all the way. White's competition includes Switzerland's
Iouri Podladtchikov, better known as "I-Pod."
If NBC's prime-time broadcast is the center of your Olympic world, here's the schedule lineup for Tuesday night: White's bid for gold in the halfpipe and the pairs short programs will dominate the coverage. In addition, expect highlights from the women's slopestyle skiing and ski jumping, especially if Hendrickson wins.
The United States and Canada, the best women's hockey teams in the world, collide in the wee hours in a qualification-round game. The winner will be the top seed in the semifinals.


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New Orleans police are looking for a person of interest in connection with a shooting that happened hours after midnight on New Year's Day.
Police are looking for 19-year-old Edwin Patterson.
The shooting happened about 2 a.m. in the 300 block of Canal Street amid a large fight, police said.
According to a news release from the NOPD, the victim was shot in the buttocks while fleeing from the fight.
Patterson is being sought as a person of interest in the investigation.
He is described by police as an African-American man, about 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds with shoulder-length dreadlock-style hair and a medium complexion.
Anyone with information is asked to call NOPD Detective Michael Flores at email@example.com.


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Re-wiring 'King of the Dance Floor'
|Keith Petrin dances with his good friend Sara Parkinson Sereika at the Swallows Inn in San Juan Capistrano. After suffering a stroke, Petrin experienced excruciating phantom pain in his right rib cage, shoulder and arm. Doctors short-circuited the part of the brain causing the pain by running wires from his brain to a device in his chest. (Paul Rodriguez/Orange County Register/MCT)
"Girls lined up to dance with him," says Carol Koltz, a Swallows Inn regular who happens to walk by.
"He lit up the room," says another female patron.
"A ladies man," says a man at the bar. "They all wanted to dance with him."
These days Petrin, 51, is a walking science project.
"Go ahead, feel the back of my neck," he says, kneeling on the floor so an acquaintance can trace the wires under his skin that run from his brain to a device in his chest.
Without the wiring, he'd be unable to hold a conversation, among other things. The reason is pain, a pain that burns like fire in his bones. It is a pain that prescribed opiates can't subdue. A pain that makes some suicidal. A pain that is the result of a 2008 stroke that short-circuited his brain.
Because of that pain Petrin still struggles with his words, his thoughts and balance. And without those wires running into his brain, he wouldn't be here, in this bar, waiting for a friend.
Waiting for the music to start.
Waiting to see if the King of the Dance Floor can still do the one thing that makes him feel alive.
The headaches started in 2006. Petrin thought it was stress from work, but in actuality it was a weak artery in his head that was starting to bulge.
It ballooned out and out. And out. Until March 22, 2008, when the artery in Petrin's head burst, spewing blood throughout his brain and causing a massive stroke.
Three days later Petrin awoke from a coma, unable to talk, walk or think straight.
Still, he believed: "I'll be fine in a few days."
But days stretched into a weeks, and weeks into years. Then one day in 2011 a new hurdle was thrown in front of him.
Intense pain. In his right ribs, shoulder and arm.
"IT'S LIKE HOT LAVA," he says. "Your bones are hot lava and it feels like they're melting."
Doctors prescribed more than a dozen pain medications, including narcotics, opiates and methadone, an opioid similar to heroin. None helped.
"I just stayed in bed," he says. "You writhe and you say, 'Oh God, why?' You just ask, 'Why, why?' all the time."
After six months, he saw a neurosurgeon who suggested a rare surgery. It meant cutting a hole in Petrin's skull and stitching electrodes to his brain.
Petrin had just one answer.
Recovering from a stroke is bad enough.
There are friends who abandon you. Strangers who shun you. There's therapy that never ends. Bills that never end.
And then, sometimes, there's this: Petrin was told that his relentless pain was akin to a phantom pain — caused by a scarred thalamus.
THINK OF THE THALAMUS AS A CONDUCTOR sitting atop the spinal cord, directing electrical signals throughout the brain. Petrin's stroke scarred his thalamus, and the scarring caused this conductor to send bad signals.
It's called "thalamic pain syndrome" and it's rare, occurring in less than 5 percent of stroke victims.
"It's torture," says Hoag Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duma. "It's truly torture. People want to kill themselves."
Three years ago, Duma first performed a new procedure called motor cortex stimulation to override the bad signals. And that's what he did for Petrin.
Duma implanted a pacemaker-like device in Petrin's chest that sends four volts of electricity to the motor strip on his brain. This stimulation masks the phantom-like pain, but not Petrin's speech and balance issues.
"When you stutter and stammer in public, people turn their back on you, which makes you feel worse," he says. "Your confidence is shattered."
There are two words Petrin uses a lot. One is lucky, which is amazing given his run of bad luck. The other is hope, which is amazing given how much of his former life he lost.
As he talks a woman enters the Swallows Inn. Sara Parkinson Sereika is an old family friend.
"If you needed money, he'd pull out whatever was in his pocket and hand it to you," Sereika says of Petrin. "If you needed a jacket, he'd take his off and give it to you. If you needed shoes, he'd pull his off and dance in his socks."
At that moment, by chance, a country-western duo begins playing.
A few minutes earlier, Petrin could barely shake a friend's hand. But the music sends a jolt to his brain that no electricity could match. The jolt tells him he is alive.
It is a quiet night at the Swallows Inn. No one else is on the floor as Petrin takes Sereika's hand.
They dance.
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Memory Issues
From Rapid-I-Wiki
This article tries to explain what you can do when you run out of memory.
Java in general
Java has two memory options which you define during startup and which determine the size of the heap (where your objects are stored in memory)
- -Xms
- Lower bound
- -Xmx
- Upper bound
If you want to set this settings start java as follow:
<source lang="java"> java -Xmx512m </source>
<source lang="java"> java -Xms256m -Xmx512m </source>
whereby m indicates Mb.
The JVM resizes the heap adaptively, meaning it will attempt to find the best heap size for your application. -Xms and -Xmx simply specifies the range in which the JVM can operate and resize the heap. If -Xms and -Xmx are the same value, then the JVM's heap size will stay constant at that value.
It's typically best to just set -Xmx and let the JVM find the best heap size, unless there's a specific reason why you need to give the JVM a big heap at JVM launch.
Heap settings in RapidMiner
The default Java settings uses only a small amount of memory (-Xmx 64 or 128 Mb). If you use RapidMiner from a Windows installation the -Xmx option is automatically set to 80% of your memory. Otherwise the RapidMiner scripts (these in the scripts-directory) set the maximum to 512 Mb (-Xmx512m). If you want to increase the used heap you have two options. Either you set a environment variable called MAX_JAVA_MEMORY in your operating system or you change a line in the script you use to start RapidMiner (MAX_JAVA_MEMORY=1024 if you want to use 1Gb). How you can change your environment variable you can read here. Please note that you set the environment variable without the m.
RapidMiner on a 32-bit Windows
On Windows, by default, the lower 2 GB are reserved for user-mode programs and the upper 2 GB are reserved for kernel-mode programs. When you run a 32-bit Windows operating system, regardless of the amount of RAM you have installed, by default, it will only allocate a maximum of 2GB to an application (reserving the other 2GB for the OS). There is a boot-options to use more than 2 GB (/3GB), but this doesn't work with Java (see Why can't I allocate 2GB of heap to the JVM on Windows, Part 2). If you want to use more than 2 GB the best solution is to run RapidMiner on a 64-bit OS.
Java Tuning
If you want to tune your memory settings even more, try this and/or that.


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Men's Nike Like A Boss T-Shirt
Whether you're on the court, on the track or in the gym, you run things. Let everyone know when you show your confident style in the Nike Men's "Run It Like A Boss" Tee Shirt. Casual and comfortable, this laid-back tee lets your opponents know who runs things.
Made of advanced Dri-FIT fabric, this comfortable tee manages moisture so that you stay dry, even in the heat of competition. A rib crew neck with interior taping helps you to avoid neck irritation, while the relaxed fit gives you plenty of room to breathe. Bold, screen print graphics add plenty of swagger to this fresh tee.
- FABRIC: Cotton/polyester blend Dri-FIT fabric
- FIT: Relaxed fit for a laid-back not too tight, not too loose feel
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