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1986-07-26 : Mike Tyson 217 lbs beat Marvis Frazier 210½ lbs by TKO at 0:30 in round 1 of 10
- Location: Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York, USA
- Referee: Joe Cortez
- Aired On: ABC's Wide World of Sports (Main Event)
Mike Tyson used a devastating right uppercut to knock out Marvis Frazier 30 seconds into their scheduled 10-round bout. The fighters met at center ring after the opening bell, and Tyson quickly stunned Frazier with a right hand. He then forced Frazier into the corner and struck with an uppercut that crumpled Frazier to the floor. Referee Joe Cortez counted to five before waving an end to the bout.
- Mike Tyson 24-0 (22 KOs) vs. Marvis Frazier 16-1 (7 KOs)
- At 30 seconds, it was the fastest knockout of Tyson's professional career.
- Tyson entered as the # 2 heavyweight challenger by the WBC, Frazier was ranked # 9 by the WBC and # 4 challenger by the IBF.
- It was the second knockout loss of Frazier's career. His previous came against Larry Holmes (44-0) in the opening round.
- Following the win, Tyson's manager Jim Jacobs indicated that he had been in talks with Larry Holmes (48-2), who had just been twice defeated by Michael Spinks (29-0). The two did not meet, however, until January of 1988 after Holmes was away from the ring for a year and a half.
- "I'm from Catskill, New York and I'm the best fighter in the world." - Mike Tyson
- "I was calm. I was relaxed and I had a great deal of confidence that I was going to stop him in the first round. The punches I threw were very accurate. I thought he was a little reluctant about coming out. I saw a little hesitation. I saw him coming down and I said, "This is the perfect time to throw the uppercut." - Mike Tyson
- "It was scary because he went down real slow. I don't want to hurt anybody. That's the last thing I want to do, hurt anybody." - Mike Tyson
- "I can tell you what happened. I got hit with a right uppercut. That's what happened. When Larry Holmes hit me, it was the same kind of feeling. I'm going to take it easy, think a little bit, and see what the good Lord has for me to do. Maybe He's trying to tell me something and I'm not listening. " - Marvis Frazier following the knockout loss.
- "I could have counted to 20 and he wouldn't have gotten up. Marvis was really out of it. I was more concerned about the safety of the fighter." - Joe Cortez
- "He's ready to fight anybody in the world" - Kevin Rooney


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San Jose Mercury News article
"The delights provided us by the Zymoglyphic Museum's myriad selections, and even by the relatively elaborate annotations and codifications with which the Museum provides its holdings, are themselves self-evident. The poetry of form, lyricism of association, and economy of function that define every concatenation, that pervade every diorama, rivet us to these apparitions, cementing our fascination and our affection."
From The Art World Beneath Our Feet: The Zymoglyphic Museum and its Mission by Peter Frank.
It is made of some deep thoughts, some random junk and some accumulated stuff...It is a place to meditate on life and death
Judith Hoffman, Artist-in-Residence
What is it? A self-museum, a cabinet of curiosities, no, make that fishtanks of curiosities, with lots of little eyes secretly staring at you, and organic matter arranged into beings with souls...you feel your head getting sucked into the middle of the earth.
|A photo essay by Laura Mappin
Connecting the world with dead things and junk...Delicate bits of decay...lovingly arranged to create unknown worlds-- Jeanie M.
It's a good thing [the curator] was on the other side of the table, because this got me so excited that I probably would have humped his leg with glee otherwise.-- Eliza Metz [in reference to the museum's roadshow]
a dusty, strange world of Frankenstein'd creatures and ephemeral art...a beautiful mish-mash of railroad figurines, dried bugs, fake eyeballs and dryer lint...for someone who has a museum of fake animals in his toolshed, [the curator] is astonishingly sane and fun to talk to.-- Amy Brown
weird little collection...in a beat-up wooden shed in some dude's driveway-- Schmoo on Obscura Day 2011 [ed. note: The shed is not nearly as beat-up as museum management might prefer]
It's this middle-aged weird dad guy in the suburbs...but it's still very cool-- Obscura Day 2012 (via Facebook)
Article about Curious Gallery 2016 in the Oregonian - photos by Dillon Pilorget
The diorama at Curious Gallery makes a brief apprearance at the end of a short segment on local news station KOIN
Number 2 in 7 Places to Visit in Portland you Probably Haven't Considered
[T]he Zymoglyphic Museum is one of the 20th century's great art works (alongside of Museum of Jurassic Technologies) -- just shamefully unrecognised.-- Incognita Nom de Plume
The Zymoglyphic Museum - The world's finest collection of artistic detritus-- Urban Cryptids
I wanna be a Zymoglyphic Art Museum Curator when I grow up.-- Magnafeek
Is this thing real?
[The dioramas] are kind of like an obscure and evil I-Spy book, with lots of hidden actions and creatures. Also, this website is absolutely crazy-- Curious
La fiaccola dell'entropia! La fiaccola dell'entropia!-- L'Ascella Ebbra [The Drunken Armpit]
today I discovered I'm a zymoglyphile...I'm chuffed pink to have found the proper name for my condition-- poetmcgonagall
Someday I'd like to have my own little museum. There's this one called the Zymoglyphic Museum that I'd love to visit, but it's way out in California and only open a few days a year. It's pretty neat and when I win the lottery I'll go every year, or possibly just buy it and move it to my private island.-- OKCupid dating profile, 31F, Marion, Ill.
the world's only institution dedicated to images of fermentation-- Wall Street Journal
The Museum of Dust is a shadowy, incorporeal, antipodean meta-institution that attempted to acquire the Zymoglyphic Museum for its Wunderkammer collection in 2006. It has since returned to its original mission of "gathering dust."
Metafilter is a literate, intelligent and witty community blog where the comments are often more interesting than the links being discussed. The museum's exhibits have provided a springboard for a number of posts and discussions.
Neatorama is a very popular best-of-the-web blog that has featured the museum twice
You'll enjoy finding the "poetic effect" in the exhibits at the museum's website
...fermented or dried-up stuff used to make art
The Quantum Biologist visited the museum in 2010 and was inspired to write a number of related blog posts
The Proceedings of the now-defunct Athanasius Kircher Society featured museum exhibits twice in 2006
Cliff Pickover's link-a-day Reality Carnival featured the museum's cloud sculptures on 11/26/06

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Screencast which takes you through the steps of making your own digital story using pictures and text and sound. See my own stories in the book nook
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On my weblog, I have a page called "goals for 2009", showing a list of various things that I want to do during this year. One of those things is that I want to read at least 75 books.
I have a category where I write a book review every time I finish reading a book, and I thought that it would be nice to simply use the post count in this category to show how close I am to my goal.
Then I discovered that there seems to be no good way of doing this. How would I best write a page where one of the lines is:
Read 75 books. Progress: <amount_of_posts_in_category_"Books">/75.
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Robert Wilson's avant-garde direction is enigmatic, to say the least, but this perceptive documentary reveals that his personal life was just as mysterious.
This enormously silly CD is perfect for little ones just discovering scatological humor (that is to say, poop jokes).
From Joyce to the Coen brothers, lots of artists have tried their hands at reinventing The Odyssey — and now this guy!
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- Tracing a pixel-based image
- Sketching and drawing for Illustrator
- Creating and editing gradients
- Creating multi-colored blends
- Creating seamlessly repeating tile patterns
- Creating interlocking artwork with Live Paint
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- Recoloring artwork with color harmonies
- Making the most of symbols
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Skill Level Intermediate
In this exercise we're going to create the highlight on top of the pupil using yet another gradient, and this time we won't be using a Blend mode, instead we're going to create a gradient that starts off opaque and ends up trailing away to transparency. But before we go there, we need to go ahead and replicate this three-gradient eye that I've created onto the left- hand side, and it's found inside this progress file called Three-gradient eye.ai. I'm going to select this white eye over here on the left-hand side and I'm just going to delete it, by pressing the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac.
And then I'll select the right-hand eye, the one that I want to duplicate, and I'm going to press Ctrl+Semicolon or Cmd+Semicolon on a Mac in order to bring up my Guides. I'll press the O key in order to get the Reflect tool, and then I'll Alt+click or Option+click on that Vertical Guide to bring up the Reflect dialog box. Go ahead and select Vertical and then click on the Copy button in order to copy the eye to the other location. That goes ahead and flips the gradients as well, which is absolutely what we want, because we want that top gradient, the linear gradient, to be flowing in exactly the opposite direction that it flowed inside the right eye, so we end up getting the proper shading effect. S o, so far, so good.
Next, I'm going to switch back to my Black Arrow tool and I'm going to click on the right eye once again, because we're going to build a highlight on the right-hand side, and then I'll press Ctrl+Semicolon or Cmd+Semicolon to get rid of my Guides, just so I can better see what I'm doing, and I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+C or Cmd+C on the Mac in order to copy that eye shape. Next, I'm going to click on the outline of the pupil in order to select it, because we need to create the highlight on top of the pupil, and I can't really take a shape and wedge it into the center of a bunch of attributes inside of another shape.
So we're going to have to use separate shapes for this one. And I'll press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F on the Mac in order to paste a copy of the eye, with all of its gradients still intact, on top of the pupil. Well, I don't want all of its gradients and I sure as heck don't want that Drop Shadow. So here in the Appearance panel, I'm going to click on the flyout menu icon and I'm going to choose Clear Appearance, just to get rid of everything that's assigned to that shape. So it has no Fill, no Stroke. Now, we do want it to have a Fill. So I'm going to switch back to the Gradient panel, and I'm going to change the Fill color that's at work here just to white, like so, just by clicking on the white swatch.
And then I'm going to drag white, that white color swatch, down into the Gradient panel, and I'm going to make it the first color in the gradient, and then I'm going to grab white again and I'm going to drag it down onto the last color. So we now have a gradient that goes from white to white, which may seem like it makes no sense whatsoever. Why in the world would I do that, that's just a complex way of making a solid white color Fill. Well, the reason is, if you're going to create a fading gradient that fades to transparency, then it needs to start and end with the same color, unless you want the colors to change as the Opacity changes, which usually is not what you want.
So typically you work with the exact same color on both sides. And then in my case, I'm going to switch from Linear to Radial, and I'm going to take this last color stop, which is already selected, and I'm going to change its Opacity to 0, like so, so that we end up getting this effect here. So we have a gradient that starts out nice and bright and fades to transparency. That's exactly what we want, except I do want to adjust the placement a little bit, like usual, so I'll press the G key in order to get my Gradient tool. I'm going to drag this guy up a little bit to set the highlight on the top side of the pupil, maybe even move it just slightly over to the left, like so, and I'm going to change my Angle value, which just helps me with the placement of this final point.
I'm going to change that angle to -40 degrees, and then I'm going to drag the point inward a little bit, that is, that terminus of the gradient. And finally, I'm going to take this first color right there and I'm going to change its location to 5, and that's going to increase the size of the hotspot at the center of the eyes. So I'll change that value to 5, so that means 5% of the area covered by the gradient is covered with a white circle, which creates a pretty nice effect I think. If we go any higher, I think it starts to look clumsy, but at 5% I think it looks nice.
And then I'm going to select that midpoint skew and I'm going to reduce its value, so that we have less white going on, just sort of a compressed area of white highlight, to 35%. That way we get a nice bright spotlight inside of that pupil. All right, next, I'm going to go over here to the left-hand eye. So instead of selecting the right eye and cloning it onto the left, which would also reverse the placement of my gradient, I want to go ahead and create a new left eye and then match its fill to the one on the right hand side.
So the direction information is the same. So I'll select this left-hand eye with the Black Arrow tool. I'll press Ctrl+C, Cmd+C on the Mac to copy it. I'll click on the pupil in order to make it active, and then I'll press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F on the Mac in order to paste the eye in front. Then I'll go back over to the Appearance panel and I'll click on the flyout menu icon, choose Clear Appearance, in order to clear away all those attributes, the Drop Shadow, the Stroke, and the Fill. And then finally, I'm going to grab my Eyedropper, and I'm going to click inside the right-hand eye, and that goes ahead and loads that gradient in.
However, notice that the center of the gradient appears exactly in the center of the eye shapes. So Illustrator lifted the colors and the gradient information, but it didn't lift the angle value or the origin or the terminus or any of that stuff, and that's because of this weird little setting. I'm going to press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on the Mac to undo the application of that gradient. Then I'll go down to the Eyedropper tool, and I'll double-click on its icon there in the toolbox, and notice we've got two columns: Eyedropper Picks Up and Eyedropper Applies. Well, we're picking up a color with the Eyedropper, and we're getting all of this stuff, notice this: Color, Transparency, Overprint, all associated with the focal Fill, but that's the problem, it's one of our problems anyway.
If we had multiple Fills, we'd only be selecting one of them, we'd only be lifting one of them. And also, we're not lifting any of that other information, because we need Appearance turned on. So that one check box at the very outset needs to be on for the Eyedropper to really function the way that you think it should function. Then go ahead and click OK, and now click inside of this iris in order to lift that color, and notice now we're matching the origin point, the terminus point, the angle, and all that other stuff. Now, it might not align exactly right with the new pupil, so we'll have to manipulate it by pressing the G key to get to the Gradient tool, and then I'm just going to drag straight over to the right here, as carefully as I can, so that I end up getting that effect right there, I think that looks good.
And then I'll click on the Black Arrow tool to select it and I will click off the shapes in order to deselect them. And there we have the completed eye gradients, including the highlights inside the pupils.


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Several telephone calls to attempt clarification took more than 30 minutes each.
Kept getting transferred to different departments and "customer service" agents. Agent refused to allow contact with a supervisor.
I paid the bill although it was still in conflict with other billing statements.
Service was cutoff 3 days prior to the cutoff notice date we received.
Called "customer service" with payment receipt and was told that we must now pay a deposit to get service restored.
Paid the deposit. After another series of 4 or 5 phone calls (from 35 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes) I was told it would be 3 to 5 days to restore service. Talked with a supervisor and was told "They would try to expedite".
I then went downtown to the TXU central office. The security guard refused to let me go up to "customer service". After he made several phone calls, a lady finally spoke to me on the guard's desk phone, refused to allow me to speak to a supervisor and was told "Nothing could be done, service would be restored by ONCOR, a separate company from TXU".
We were without power for about two weeks.
All this was taking place while TXU was being purchased by a NY buyout firm, KKR, for billions and lobbying for additional polluting coal-fired plants in Texas.
I have heard many similar stories from friends who are all trying to navigate the many other service company offers for power. The power marketers at least answer their phones. But they must buy their power from TXU.
This form of degulation is a consumer nightmare. TXU's "customer service" is a farce, with a phone system designed to discourage or prohibit contact. After completing a frustrating call, no "agent" is responsive or has responsibility or authority to solve anyone's problem. Power is still a monopoly in Texas because TXU is the only basic source of electric energy no matter who is marketing it. And now owned by NYC investors.
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LODI - A mud run - the "Muddy Maul & Crawl" - is planned for Saturday, with proceeds benefiting veterans who want to return to college.
Gates open at 6 a.m. at Jessie's Grove Winery, 1973 W. Turner Road in Lodi. The first race begins at 8:30 a.m.
The two-mile obstacle course includes nine boot camp-style obstacles and a giant mud pit.
Individuals and teams can enter. Registration is $50 before Thursday or $60 on race day. A barbecue will be held afterward. Proceeds benefit the Boots to Books Scholarship Fund for the education of veterans.
To learn more, visit fgsforvets.org.
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Popping into my mailbox this morning (after a night wondering if whether Jackie Chan's history of doing adverts that urge people not to use wild animals in medicine means that "complementary and alternative medicine" -"CAM" – will not have a place in the Science center that features his name at ANU… I'll have to check!), was this article: Placebo Effect –Why We Need Less Research on Alternative Medicine, Not More by R. Barker Bausell in the Chronicle Review of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
It starts with a short history of the popularity of "bizarre, pseudomedical practitioners" and goes on to say:
Nothing has changed in recent years. In fact, the supplement and herbal industries had become so powerful by 1992 that their supporters were reputed to have sent an estimated two million letters to members of Congress, urging them to prevent the Food and Drug Administration from imposing restrictions on unsubstantiated health claims made on behalf of supplements and herbal products — restrictions that might have prevented the significant loss of life and thousands of adverse effects attributed to the herb ephedra, which was marketed as a weight-loss and athletic-performance supplement before it was finally banned a few years ago.
An interesting contrast to the recent shutting down of the BBC website for Complimentary Medicine due to public pressure. Maybe times are changing, in little ways.
What is new is the role of reputable institutions in propagating such nonsense: The NIH now awards both research and educational grants in alternative medicine. According to the Web site of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, "the immediate goal" of the latter program is "to encourage and support the incorporation of [complementary and alternative medicine] information into medical, dental, nursing, and allied health professional school curricula, into residency training programs, and into continuing education courses. An important longer-term goal [is] to accelerate the integration of CAM and conventional medicine." Many medical schools now work with complementary and alternative clinics, offer fellowships in alternative medicine, and both include material on alternative medicine in required courses and offer optional courses about it.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to many, after a broad international recent market research study reporting that
The internet has had a large impact … with consumers being given access to unlimited health information online. In the US for example, where we have seen a slow but steady increase in the proportion of people who say that they 'prefer alternative medicine to standard medicine' over the past five years, a third of the population now gathers healthcare information on the Internet. … people aged 35 and over are generally more likely than their younger counterparts to turn to alternative medicine, and acceptance of the practice appears to increase with age.
So – should the Internet be emphasised as an important resource when it comes to promoting correct information about herbal remedies, et al? Certainly the network of science blogs and sites are supportive of each other's summarised investigations by links and references – such as outlining the lack of evidence regarding autism being linked to vaccinations, for example (she writes, demonstrating at the same time how easy it is to grab a whole buncha links and linky linky linky… !).
The issue that Bausell has revolves around the enormous amount of spending that goes into testing the efficacy (or not finding evidence of efficacy, as the results seem to indicate – placebos ahoy!) of the CAM-claims by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine – "Not surprisingly, almost all those trials found no difference between the two, but that information has not come cheaply: The NIH has allocated approximately $860-million to the center since the 2000 fiscal year alone."
The issue of testing such claims and the existence of the National Center was presented by Professor Barrie Cassileth and Professor Ray Lowenthal at the 2007 Australian Skeptics conference in Hobart. In their lectures, they gave an overview on the efforts of integrative oncology to investigate and use medicine that does work, researching and clarifying exactly what herbal remedies exist in popular use which do prove to have a scientific benefit – featured on the site www.mskcc.org/aboutherbs.
The article continues with:
Wouldn't it be wiser to allocate that money to other NIH agencies whose mission is to try to find an actual cure for a real disease, or to try to find better ways to manage patients' symptoms for those conditions that can't be cured? Or, if that is not politically feasible, in the spirit of transparency shouldn't the alternative-medicine center be renamed the National Center for the Study of Placebo Effects? And should we really keep this nonsense as part of our medical-school curricula?
About now I remember Daniel Loxton's essay featured on Skepticality in regards to paranormal claims – 'Because people get hurt.' And people indeed get hurt (as the site What's The Harm.net shows) and they will point at outdated reference papers and bad research continually.
I only have to remember comments on a YouTube video of a TV homeopathy debunking, posted up by Richard Saunders, where a persistent homeopathic supporter (persistently dreadful, I might add – referencing papers from the early 1900s as support for homeopathy? Sheesh…) kept up a barrage of 'it's true! It's true!' posts that made readers roll their eyes.
Sure, people will insist the claims have validity and have nothing beyond poor research and anecdote to back it up with. But it doesn't mean that there potentially couldn't be something behind some of the claims – hence the creation of integrative oncology.
Popularizing and emphasizing good research, rigorous studies and easy-to-find papers that show 'no, this particular claim just does NOT work and I have more than just skeptical sites that say so' could help when you're faced with the situation that James Randi writes about in SWIFT – reader Greg Stokley objected to a "naïve – if not simply fraudulent – report featured on TV station WKYC Channel 3, NBC-TV in Cleveland" that was touting pro-homeopathic claims, ending up with the JREF and CSICOP sites being slammed :
" … you're going to have to do better than cite James Randi and CSICOP as grounds to refute anything. Had you watched closely, you would have seen the homeopathic practitioner was an MD… Skepticism is fine, but huffing and puffing cynicism helps no one. If you are going to lambaste Ms. Robins' reporting, your will need to offer far more than indignity and a couple of cultural websites." [emphasis mine]
Yes. We do need more. Because that is the attitude that people can have in regards to claims and many of us have faced that in casual conversations and professional interactions.
The battle does continue, regardless. I know that Michael Baum, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University College London, caused a storm by criticizing Prince Charles's support for the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital after a £20 million refurbishment with money that 'would have been better spent on drugs like Herceptin' – but this is working towards testing to ascertain what works and perhaps do find elements that work, rather than just blind faith support of homeopathy or herbs like ephedra; not taking away money that could be used for drugs that already have evidence for their efficacy.
In my opinion, because "…if even Benjamin Franklin couldn't stem the ever-rising tide of alternative medicine, no one can" doesn't mean that there isn't hope. The research that demonstrates that people can shut down a website in the case of the BBC's site (which is one key element in continuing the popularity of the claims) and the growing number of interactions between science blogs and networking… does it not help too in the theory that if it's the older generation which tend more towards "CAM" – then we could reflect upon how to appeal to the reasonings of the Internet-literate younger years too? What will make them be more skeptical than the older years? Could good research evidence online help?
And what if we're wrong? What if there's other elements that contribute to belief in homeopathic claims and the like? Then to at least have a bet-each-way, part of the diversification in addressing concerns about people's health should include a places that which prompts students how to look at "CAM" claims with the scientific method and produce well-written and well-researched papers that can demonstrate that science will test and does test – regardless if you get no evidence that it works – especially with students. Because that's still something that informs us. I certainly hope that places like the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine will provide this need.
Because in the end – if this sort of product in the video here is touted alone as 'a great way combat credulous trusting of "CAM" claims' – we are not going to maintain the fight.


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Mathematical Modeling Meets Disease Prevention Intermountain Healthcare is taking a mathematical modeling approach to clinical decision support in the hope of preventing disease or detecting it early on.
Obamacare Victory Spells More Work For Healthcare CIOs CIOs and CMIOs can expect many more sleepless nights now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act.
Healthcare Patients Insist On E-Access: Accenture Study Patients want more access to their medical records online, but want to maintain their personal contact with doctors, according to new Accenture research.
CIO Profiles: Harry Lukens Of Lehigh Valley Health Network Robotics will become more common in surgery, predicts this healthcare CIO.
Long-Term Care Providers Release Health IT Roadmap Clinicians in nursing homes and other LTC facilities have made significant progress, but want to work more with hospitals, physicians, and other providers to improve transitions of care.
When Data Is A Matter Of Life Or Death Healthcare analytics startup offers insights into how to develop the numbers when it counts for everything.
Microsoft Integrates HealthVault With Greenway EHR Pilot program pulls patients' clinical data from Greenway's electronic health record into Microsoft's cloud-based personal health record platform.
New Wireless Sensors Tackle Old Problems Like Pneumonia Wireless sensor technology developed by the University of Missouri can measure subtle changes in pulse, respiration, and bed restlessness, warning clinicians of the early onset of pneumonia or other life-threatening problems.
Health IT Can Learn From Past Screw-Ups U.S. healthcare system will remain broken unless we redesign our tools and rethink our mindset.
Long-Term Care Providers Still Need Data Exchange Although LTC and post-acute care providers have been excluded from Meaningful Use, they still play a key role in continuity of care, says federal health IT official.
Telemedicine Tackles Mental Health Treatment Online communities and computerized cognitive behavioral therapy can help break the stigma of depression, extend providers, and reduce overmedication, report says.
HHS Grants Tap Health IT To Improve Quality Feds will spend $895 million on a national innovations program, but expect to get twice as much back through Medicare and Medicaid savings.
Online Program Lets Docs 'Prescribe' mHealth Apps Happtique mRx program lets physicians send apps directly to patients' smartphones and tablets, or refer them to Apple store.
EHR Incentive Program Races Past Milestone More than 100,000 providers receive Medicare or Medicaid payments for showing Meaningful Use or adopting EHRs--in less time than expected.
AirStrip Adds EHR Connectivity To Mobile Platform Doctors now can see not only bedside data on their smartphones and iPads, but also EHR data such as medical diagnoses and lab test results.
U.S. Healthcare Needs Data Standards, Registries, Study Says Several IT obstacles hold the nation back from establishing a value-based healthcare system, according to the Boston Consulting Group.
25 CIOs Transforming Healthcare InformationWeek Healthcare's second annual list of IT executives highlights the exceptional thinkers and doers who are moving patient care forward.
WebMD Founder, Dr. Oz Buy Clinical Decision Support Company PKC acquisition will give Sharecare a clinical engine for its health and wellness social network, and bring PKC's CDS system the consumer audience it long sought.
EHR Innovation Gap Threatens Healthcare Progress EHRs remain stuck in the pre-Internet age and dominated by entrenched vendors, according to recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary.
Health Insurers' Online Tools Give Consumers Purchasing Clout United Healthcare and Aetna empower customers with online tools that estimate the cost and quality of medical care.
Premier Healthcare Alliance Establishes Virtual Care Platform PremierConnect, powered by IBM technology, will enable member hospitals and clinics to share patient data and exchange best practices.
When Smart Mobile Technology Meets Good Science Tablets, smartphones, and mobile apps have the potential to improve patient care--but without quality clinical research to back them up, you may be wasting your IT budget.
Feds Release E-Prescribing Toolkits For Physicians, Pharmacies Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality introduces long-promised resources to help physicians and pharmacists adopt, troubleshoot electronic prescriptions.
MModal Brings Speech Recognition To Clinical Decision Support Technology introduced even as UC-Berkeley studies shortcomings of speech recognition.
Catholic Healthcare System Launches Mega Health Information Exchange Catholic Health Initiatives' HIE will span 19 states, participating in community and national exchanges.
Medical Specialists Encouraged To Use More IT National Committee for Quality Assurance dangles recognition program to get specialty practices to coordinate with primary care doctors and inform patients via email, websites, and other technology.
Doctors Concerned About Consumers' Mobile Health Use Promises of healthcare quality increases and cost savings aren't enough to ease physicians' worries about patients using mobile health tools, new PwC study shows.
10 Popular Pharmacy Information Systems Healthcare providers need top-notch pharmacy information systems to safely deliver medications. Consider our overview of the top players.
NY Accelerates State Health Information Exchange Regional health information exchanges team up with IBM and other IT vendors to build the massive Statewide Health Information Network of New York.
Mobile Health Revolution: Doctors And Patients Disagree Many doctors frown on consumers' interest in mobile health, says PwC report. But that's only half the story.
Health IT Investments Focus On Data, Value Healthcare organizations invest in system integration and health information exchanges to get the data required by value-based purchasing, which holds providers accountable for the cost and quality of care.
California HIE Sails Uncharted Waters Inland Empire Health Information Exchange combines public and private exchanges, which appeals to participants worried about competition.
Wireless Sensors Reduce ICU Days Wireless sensors that provide contact-free patient monitoring allow fewer health care practitioners to keep track of more critical patients.
Blue Cross BI Tools Help Craft 'Bundled' Payments BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and four orthopedic practices forge ahead with a BI-enhanced payment strategy that combines payments into one fixed fee for multiple services.
Do EHRs Improve Diabetes Care? Electronic health records don't provide any advantage over paper-based records, according to one study. Others disagree.
Geo-Medicine New Frontier In Medical Informatics Healthcare researchers want to know if marrying geographic data on large patient populations to clinical databases can reveal hidden disease patterns.
AARP/Microsoft Launch Personal Health Record Although most consumers aren't crazy about PHRs, AARP is betting on a MS-powered new offering to spark their interest. Will anybody pay attention?
8 Health Information Exchanges Lead The Way Look inside some of the most established HIEs and how they help U.S. health organizations share data, in the name of lower costs and better patient care.
EHRs Aren't Ready For Pay For Performance Meeting the pay for performance challenge requires more sophisticated capabilities in EHRs and more physician cooperation.
Cigna/Granite Healthcare Launch Accountable Care Initiative Cigna will apply analytics tools to help Granite Healthcare Network spot gaps in care and improve care coordination among New Hampshire residents.
HIX Data Reporting Should Rely On 'Benchmark' Plans The Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rule would clarify 'essential benefits' in state health insurance exchanges (HIXs) ahead of enrollment.
Health IT Faces Eventful Summer Supreme Court's upcoming decision on healthcare reform and feds' Meaningful Use Stage 2 final rules add up to a heated summer for healthcare IT execs.
Top EHRs For Small Practices IDC picks 11 EHRs that offer the best tools and strategies for small medical groups to meet Meaningful Use incentives and prepare for healthcare reform.
The Doctor Will See You In Walmart Retailer rolls out telemedicine services in selected stores that give shoppers access to doctors through videoconferencing technology.
Online Technologies Doctors Love: Age Matters Docs love tablets, but adoption of Internet technologies varies depending on gender, age, and work environment, study says.
EHR Quality Measurement In Its Infancy, Study Says Johns Hopkins research describes some of the other electronic performance measures that could be used with EHRs.
Health-Monitoring Devices Market Outpaces Telehealth Market for consumer devices to monitor conditions such as high blood pressure is growing faster than telehealth systems, says IMS Research study.


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Minutemen coming out of retirement after immigration surge
PHOENIX — It was a decade ago a controversial group — that has since fallen out of the spotlight — set lawn chairs in the desert to keep an eye on the border between the United States and Mexico.
Now the Minuteman Project is returning to the border after a surge in illegal immigrants from Central America entering the U.S., touching off a humanitarian and political firestorm.
Group founder and president Jim Gilchrist said he will spend the next 10 months recruiting volunteers for Operation Normandy, which will be a monthlong border effort to keep illegal immigrants from making their way into the United States from Mexico.
"We are angry," he said. "This lack of control of our borders and the lack of enforcing immigration laws is the source of a national anger and we have to bring national awareness to it. I would expect at least 35,00 participants and that doesn't include militias that will jump in."
Gilchrist said the federal government struggles to secure the border and now the undocumented immigrants pouring into Texas have sparked an outrage which will bring volunteers from across the nation on their own dime and time.
"It's time for a revolution but an ideological revolution to bring us back to common sense," he said. "We are essentially immobilized to do anything in this country anymore either because of political paralysis or partisan politics and it's frustrating to us as voters and as people who fought the wars in this country and pay the taxes."
Some of the members will be armed, as they were during previous border watch events between 2005 and 2010. Gilchrist said there's one rule: Stay within the law.
"If people want to carry firearms, as long as it's legal, I have no problem with it. I have no authority over what they do or say."
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Photos of the Day: Jan. 2
SING A SONG: A band of minstrels performed Wednesday in the annual Malay Choir and Minstrels Carnival in Cape Town, South Africa. The event draws more than 13,000 performers in about 70 performing groups. (Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images)
FLEEING: Passengers piled onto the roof of a car also carrying food, bedding, and dead game as it headed away from Damara, about 44 miles north of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic Wednesday. In less than a month, rebels have seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)
SAD DAY: A woman mourned a victim of a motorcycle bombing at his funeral prayer in Karachi Wednesday. A bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded area of Pakistan's southern port city Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 50, police said. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)
STRESS RELIEF: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men took part Wednesday in a yoga class at a studio in Ramat Beit Shemesh, about 12 miles from Jerusalem. Almost a dozen devout Jewish men meet weekly at the studio, the only one of its kind in the area. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
DELICIOUS: James Wilder Jr. of the Florida State Seminoles, No. 32, clowned around Tuesday with an orange after the team beat the Northern Illinois Huskies, 31-10, in the Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)


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Insurance officials from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina will be in Mobile on Monday to hear comments on coastal insurance issues that have stirred debate and lawsuits since Hurricane Katrina struck two years ago.
Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell, who is president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), said the session will be held at The Battle House Renaissance Hotel during the NAIC's conference.
Officials from Travelers, State Farm, RenaissanceRe, Municipal Bond Insurance Association (MBIA) and ProtectingAmerica.org are scheduled to provide testimony.


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Lamon to Release Covers Album Series Throughout 2015
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Indie Pop Singer-Songwriter Ryan Morris Releases Project with Lamon Records
Virginia native Ryan Morris met renowned singer-songwriter Chris Gantry while working in a music shop in Nashville. After hearing Morris' indie pop demos, Gantry introduced him to the Lamon Records team. With raw talent and enigmatic charm like Ryan's and a recommendation from Gantry, Lamon was excited from the start. The Belmont student began recording in late 2014 and his two song EP is available now. "Legendary songwriter Chris Gantry kept bugging me about this "kid" he wanted me to hear," says Lamon...read more
Country Artist Buddy Jewell Signs With Lamon Records
Just over a decade ago, singer Buddy Jewell captivated "Nashville Star" viewers and was voted America's first winner of the hit reality TV show. He rose over eleven other contestants, including country music darling Miranda Lambert, by two million votes, securing his spot in television and music history. He signed with Columbia Records and his self-titled album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Country Album Chart and brought forth two top-five hits. "Sweet Southern Comfort" and "Help Pour Out the Rain"...read more
New Nashville Showcase Begins Friday, March 6 at Tin Roof
Lamon Records president and CEO Dave Moody will host the first New Nashville Showcase at Tin Roof on Demonbreun. The first Friday of every month, the showcase will feature Lamon artists as well as established Nashville acts and new unsigned talent. The first New Nashville Showcase will feature Lamon artists Ryan Morris and The Domines, as well as Nashville favorite Lynn Taylor and the Barflies.Dave and his house band, featuring Reid Johnson, Lewis Wells, Jackson Moody, Josh Moody, and Rebecca Jardine will perform a few tunes as well. The New...read more
Tim Carroll's Album "Pure As Coal" Now Available
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New Album From Jill And Julia Is Anything But "Cursed"
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First Wessex Aspireview Case Study
Published by Coactiva for Coactiva, part of the Callcredit Information Group in Housing and also in Local Government
First Wessex is a Hampshire-based housing association providing homes and services to local communities throughout Hampshire and parts of Surrey. Delivering high quality homes and services, they manage and maintain around 20,500 affordable homes for rent or purchase and currently develop in excess of 300 new homes each year. Last year, after two years of planning and preparing, First Wessex went out to tender for a performance, project and risk management solution. After an extensive selection process, they decided to select Coactiva as their preferred supplier. After beginning a pilot in May 2012, they have now been fully live on Coactiva's Aspireview solution for over four months.
Drivers behind the selection process
Prior to using a fully integrated system, First Wessex's Performance team used a series of spreadsheets to keep track of their performance indicators (PIs) and risk registers. This information was then pulled together into one centralised master document for review. This would be passed round for team managers to update and add commentary. However, using this approach meant that it was sometimes difficult to maintain version control and didn't allow for multiple users to update the document at one time. This ongoing issue would normally lead to the Performance team working to very tight schedules, whilst also having to check and correct any data errors identified from manual returns.
Once the spreadsheets were updated with commentary and results, a reviewing period would take place, which added further to the time pressures for report production. It was important for First Wessex to see value for money when selecting their performance improvement solution. "Aspireview was simple to use and implement and didn't have the added extra costs that their competitors had. It included all the functionality we needed and was simple to use. It was obvious that it was built for users, not analysts. We liked that." Tony Sanderson, First Wessex's Corporate Planning and Performance Manager.
Coactiva's solution
First Wessex has between 25,000 and 30,000 data items within their framework for their 990 users. They now use the system to monitor their management and board reports, strategic and operation risks as well as other performance areas:
- They have partially integrated Orchard Housing Management System with Aspireview so data imports are fully automated on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- All strategic and operation risks are monitored using the risk management area.
- Multi dimensional dashboards have been developed for reporting Key Performance Indicators for over 140 estates.
- Once comments are added to the reports, they are PDF'd and stored within the system so users can access them at any point.
- Development work has been undertaken to integrate the ESRI GIS System so performance can be viewed on their mapping service.
- A framework for managing self assessments has been devised and is in the process of being agreed for use by the business.
- Department PIs are starting to be measured and monitored within the performance area of the system and this is an area that will be developed further in 2013/14
"From the beginning, we knew that there would be a good cultural fit between our team and the Coactiva team. The planning sessions and planning process was organised and clear. We knew it would be delivered on time and on budget", comments Tony.
Fully integrated performance management
With Aspireview in place, the manual checking and review times have significantly decreased.
"We have made significant efficiency savings estimated to be around six man-days of data and report production time. This means we are now able to more easily meet deadlines for board reports. It has made a massive difference", adds Tony.
First Wessex is no longer using the historical spreadsheets that were once in place. Instead, nearly all corporate performance is now monitored and managed through the online system, giving managers the opportunity to view and comment on fully up-to-date results.
Next steps
First Wessex now plans to conclude the integration of information with improvements to customer insight to help with the upcoming welfare reform, as well as integrating the property services data including the repairs information.
Tony says: "We're very happy with the support we've received from Coactiva. You're always at the end of the phone and happy to help and can always find a solution to our problems."
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Garret Fitzgerald earned a pitching victory Thursday as Bethel's Wildcats blanked Del City 8-0.
The game was stopped after five innings on the eight-run rule.
Fitzgerald, who worked four innings, allowed two hits. He walked one batter, fanned three and plunked one.
Kieser Hladik led Bethel's seven-hit attack with a single and a run-scoring double. Teammate Hunter Heath added an RBI triple.
Reliever Marcus Washburn worked the fifth inning.
Bethel (3-0) will play two games Saturday at Bethel. The Wildcats will take on Stroud at noon and Wynnewood at 6 p.m.
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ANZ Frequent Flyer Black Ad
Cathay Pacific's Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are increasingly becoming the mainstay of the airline's fleet as its older jumbo 747s are retired.
You'll find them on many connections from Hong Kong, especially to European destinations.
Flights between Australia and Hong Kong use the Airbus A330, for which we've previously mapped out the best seats in Cathay's new business class, old cubicle-style business class and premium economy.
There are two 777-300ER configurations in Cathay's fleet. The first has first class ahead of business, and the second skips first entirely and puts premium economy between business and economy.
You'll be able to tell which version you're on by how far back business goes -- if it stretches beyond row 23, that's the version with First Class. If the last row of business is row 23, that's the version with Premium Economy.
In fairness, the great thing about Cathay's new business class is that there are very few bad seats at all. But there are a few especially good seats that you might want to snag if you can, and a couple to avoid.
We'll split our recommendations out by whether your plane is the version with or without First Class
The version with First Class
The best seats on the plane
11A 11K: these seats are at the very front of business class, for extra quietness, right behind the hushed environs of the first class cabin.
11D 11G: if you're travelling with a colleague (and you want to talk during the flight), you'll want a centre pair. These are among our favourites for being able to carry out a decent conversation in the air. You'll be among the first off the plane too, no matter whether the airbridge hooks up to the first or second doors of the plane.
Rows 19-21: these seats in the middle of the business class cabin strike the best balance if you want to get some rest: as far as you can get from the bassinet cribs for infants in row 15 and behind row 26.
The worst seats on the plane
Rows 26, 15, 16, 17: with baby bassinet cribs at 15D and 15G in business and immediately behind row 26, skip these if you can.
Row 12: right in front of all the business class lavatories, these are seats to avoid.
The version without First Class
The best seats on the plane
11A 11K: these seats are the first on the plane. You might get a bit of through traffic heading to the front lavatories, but it's unlikely to disturb you much in Cathay's great new business class seats.
11D 11G: if you're travelling with a colleague (and you want to talk during the flight), you'll want a centre pair. These are among our favourites for being able to carry out a decent conversation in the air since they're so far forward and away from the engines.
21K: This seat is tucked away all on its own, with a decent buffer from the galley kitchens ahead of it. But a baby could lurk at seats 20D or 20G, so it's not among our very first picks.
Rows 15-17: these seats in the middle of the main cabin are as far away as you can get from the potential disturbances of galley kitchens and lavatories to the front and rear.
The worst seats on the plane
20D 21A: right next to a lavatory, these are ripe for disturbance during the night.
19A 19K: while these seats will give you a fast exit if the airbridge hooks up to the second door back, they're also close to the galley kitchen, where passengers tend to congregate -- so they may well be noisy.
Also in our Best Seats series:
- Business Class on United's 747
- Business Class on Singapore Airlines' A380
- Economy Class on Cathay Pacific's A330
- Business Class on Emirates' 777-300ER
- Premium Economy on Qantas' A380
About John Walton
Aviation journalist and travel columnist John took his first long-haul flight when he was eight weeks old and hasn't looked back since. Well, except when facing rearwards in business class.
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Copenhagen Transportation Tips by grandmaR
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Delivery bike
Our hotel (the Saga) had rental bikes, and biking is a good way to get around Copenhagen. I don't know how much the ones at the hotel cost, but there is a place near the RR station and their prices are
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Also there are bike tours of the city which can be arranged at the telephone number below which is the number for Biking Copenhagen. Bikes are a good way to get around in this city
Mode: AROUND
Type: Bicycle
Website: http://www.rentabikecopenhagen.dk/
From the Mermaid tour
I bought a two day ticket on this bus. Adult internet rate $20.95 each. We had a part of a tour on the 10th, and on the 11th we managed to do the Red and Green lines. The Mermaid (Red) Tour takes 1 hour
Mermaid Tour Stops:
* Town Hall Square
* Axeltorv/Tivoli
* Rosenberg
* Gustav Kirken
* Langelinie
* Tourist Information
* The Little Mermaid
* Gefion Fountain
* Amalienborg
* Nyhavn/Kongens Nytorv
* Hojbro Plads/Stroget
The Green Christiania Tour overlaps the mermaid tour and additional stops include:
* Main Station/Grand Hotel
* DGI Sports Centre (originally I had planned to stop here and use
their pools)
* Hotel Marriott
* Glyptoteket
* Christiansborg
* Hojbro Plads/Stroget
* Our Saviors Church
* Holmen
* Casino Copenhagen
By now it had started raining so we didn't try the Yellow Line which includes the Zoo, and Carlsberg and just went back to the hotel.
Because of the cold rainy weather the bus had a canvas cover.
Mode: AROUND
Phone: 888-217-2212
Type: Bus
Dock with boats
It was recommended to me that I take this boat tour rather than the bus tour of Copenhagen. And I would really have liked to do so. But our plane got in late, we were jet lagged and I didn't get out to start touring until after the last boat left. Plus the whole time we were in Copenhagen it was really cold and rainy.
Like the Hop on Hop off bus, there are three routes all without a guide
The Green tour boat sails from the centre of Copenhagen (Nyhavn) via the Opera and Battery Sixtus. Then there is the Little Mermaid, Langelinie/the cruise ship harbour, The Trekroner Fortress, Halvandet/Copenhagen�s beach club and then Amaliehaven/The Royal residence on the way back to Nyhavn
The Orange line leaves from Nyhavn, and the route includes Homen, the North Atlantic Cultural House, Christianshavns Torv, The Black Diamant, Gammel Strand/the old fishermen�s village.
The Blue Route includes Islands Brygge/outdoor swimming facility, the Hotel Marriott, and Fisketorvet
There are three possibile payment rates for boat trips
Guided tours
Adult DKK 60,-
Waterbus hop-on hop-off without a guide - One day ticket, (All waterbusses) Adult DKK 60,-
2 Days ticket, Freedom ticket, (all waterbusses, guided tours and Open Top Busses)
Adult DKK 220,-
Mode: AROUND
Phone: +45 32 96 30 00 (office hours)
Type: Ship/Boat
Website: http://www.canaltours.com/dct/en
Railroad Station Clock
We didn't actually ride on the train in Copenhagen, but we did walk through the station on our way to Tivoli. I had been recommended to take note of the architecture particularly, but I don't have any good pictures of it.
Mode: TO
Phone: http://www.hovedbanen.dk
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Website: http://www.dsb.dk
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Character Role Analysis
Broadly, the enemy here is ignorance.
In All Quiet on the Western Front, ignorance is put on steroids when it is coupled with unearned power, especially that of title, uniform, and social "place." That enemy is represented by disingenuous or irresponsibly idealistic school teachers who are overly sure of themselves, by politicos in high places who ordered this war, and by ordinary people who want to assume high power inside of a military uniform. Amazingly, the enemy is never painted as the French, the Russians, the British, or the Americans who are actively trying to kill Paul – his enemies are all from within.


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Amy James
'Star Trek' Secret Revealed: How the Vulcan Salute Started
Posted May 16th, 2013 @ 8:53am
It was all Leonard Nimoy, Spock's, idea!
'Star Trek Into Darkness' hits theaters tomorrow and is getting great reviews!
Ever wonder how the Vulcan salute came about? Leonard Nimoy, who played the original Spock, came up with the idea. He suggested to the director that the Vulcans have a special way they greet each other- the way humans shake hands. Nimoy threw up his hand with the gesture as an example and next thing he knew- it was in the script- the rest, as they say, is history!
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Only a select few ever have what it takes to make it to the Olympics. And of those few, only one can win the gold.
Tallahassee's Jenna Wyatt hopes she's the one and has devoted her life to training for that big moment.
Jenna Wyatt was destined to ride horses. Riding is in her blood. It's all she knows and all she's ever wanted.
"My family had horses before I was born, my mom was riding pregnant with me. I was born into it."
But it was her hard work and dedication that has her on the verge of the World Equestrian Games next year in Kentucky, and then if all goes well, the Olympics. A prospect that sometimes is hard to talk about.
"What would it mean to you? You know, just... A lot."
It's raw emotion that you rarely see in sports. Jenna's Olympic dream is not just her dream, it's the dream of her family, her friends, and her staff, all of whom have worked tireless hours to make this happen.
"My whole life and the life of so many others. It's exciting to think about it."
But there's more to Jenna Wyatt than just horses. When she's not in the stables, you can usually find her in the recording studio.
She's a singer-song writer, opening for acts like Ben Harper and writing music for Back Street Boys and even Paris Hilton.
"It's different when I'm on stage, it's just me. When I'm on the horse, it's the two of us. If one of us is not 100%, then it's not 100%."
Jenna Wyatt has already lived a great life, but there's a lot of life left to live. And nothing would be more special, more emotional, than an Olympic Medal.


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It's nearly time for gamescom 2012, and we hope you're as excited as we are for the slew of awesome activities we have in store for you at the Blizzard booth!
The world premiere of the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic will wow the crowds at our booth during the first fully public day of the event, Thursday August 16, at 14:00. We'll also have a live drum performance from MANAO - Drums of China – the all-female Chinese drumming group that opened and closed the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
You can also participate in our Mists of Pandaria Leveling Contest on Thursday and Friday, or step into the spotlight for the Blizzard Costume Contest and the World of Warcraft Dance Contest, on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Impress our judges and win some amazing prizes from our partners.
Experience the enchanting music from the World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises performed by a live orchestra on Friday and Saturday, or watch as Blizzard artist Grace Liu demonstrates her drawing skills live on stage each day of the event. You can also take home autographs from Blizzard developers during developer signing sessions on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
You'll be able to witness some of the best pro gamers from around the world battle it out for your viewing pleasure in StarCraft II show matches throughout the event, including players from our StarCraft II World Championship Series global tournament. If you're a noob, fret not – you can attend our StarCraft II Academy session on Friday, where a well-known StarCraft II personality will teach you how to get an edge on your opponent.
Watch as two well-known World of Warcraft guilds annihilate the mightiest enemies during exciting live raids on Saturday and Sunday. You can also witness some of the planet's best PvP players fight it out in the 2012 European World of Warcraft Invitational Final on Sunday afternoon, streamed live from the Turtle Entertainment booth.
You can also show off your Blizzard knowledge and win some sweet swag during our quizzes, which will happen several times a day. You'll find all the details for these activities and more on our Activities page.
You can download a printable version of the Blizzard Entertainment gamescom 2012 stage schedule here.
New updates will be posted here as gamescom approaches, so be sure to check back often! We'll see you at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Halle 6.1 (B21), August 15-19.
Heroes of Azeroth, prepare to embark for an exotic new frontier! World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ is launching on September 25, 2012, and you can be ready to play when the servers go live by pre-purchasing the game digitally. Plus, for the first time ever, players will have the option to upgrade a pre-purchase to the all-new Digital Deluxe Edition, which comes with all of the in-game items from the retail Collector's Edition.
Beginning September 25, 2012, World of Warcraft players around the world will be able to set sail for the long-lost continent of Pandaria, where they'll explore forgotten dungeons, vanquish risen evils, and play their part in the Horde-Alliance conflict as it reaches a critical breaking point.
Whether you plan to level your existing character to 90 or start fresh with a new pandaren Monk, it's never too early to begin preparing for your adventure. Simply log in to your Battle.net account, and then pre-purchase Mists of Pandaria. You'll then be flagged to automatically download the expansion content prior to release so you'll be ready to go when the game launches.
During the pre-purchase process, you'll have the option to grab either the Mists of Pandaria Standard Edition for €34.99/£29.99 or the all-new Digital Deluxe edition for €49.99/£39.99 -- or, if you snag the standard edition now and decide you want to upgrade to Digitial Deluxe later, you'll have the opportunity to do so for an additional €15/£10.
The Digital Deluxe edition includes a full digital copy of the expansion, as well as a selection of Pandaria-inspired in-game content for World of Warcraft, Diablo III, and StarCraft II. If you're looking for even more plunder, a special Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition with additional bonus items will also be available exclusively at select retail locations for a suggested retail price of €69.99/£59.99.
Learn more about the Digital Deluxe Edition
Learn more about the Collector's Edition
For more details on the September 25, 2012 release of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, be sure to hit the official press release, or head to our new Mists of Pandaria game page to learn more about the expansion and prepurchase your digital copy.
*When you pre-purchase World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, you will be able to download an encrypted version of the game once it's available, prior to the game's release. This content will be unlocked and available for play when the expansion launches on September 25, 2012.
Don't miss the world premiere of the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic at gamescom 2012! The latest creation from Blizzard's cinematics team will be shown in both English and German on giant screens at our booth in Halle 6.1 (B21).
The opening cinematic will debut at 14:00 on Thursday, August 16, the first fully public day of gamescom. This much-anticipated unveiling will be accompanied by a performance from MANAO - Drums of China – the all-female Chinese drumming group that opened and closed the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. A signing session with Blizzard developers will immediately follow the premiere.
Remember that from August 15-19, our booth will also be showcasing World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and Diablo III, as well as our famous dance and costume contests, and many other activities.
Visit our Activities page for details, and be sure to check back here soon for more on what we have in store for you at gamescom!
You'll find our costume and dance contests, eSports action, live raids, and all-around excitement at the Blizzard Entertainment booth at gamescom 2012. But perhaps best of all, you'll be able to try out our newest games for yourselves!
Don't miss your chance to explore the ancient realm of Pandaria with the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta build, vanquish your enemies in the latest StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm multiplayer build, or battle the legions of the Burning Hells in Diablo III!
Experience the games first-hand at the Blizzard booth in Halle 6.1 (B21) at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, August 15 to 19. Be sure to check back here in the coming weeks for more information and a full schedule of activities!
You can find more information on the Blizzard website.
Ready to exhibit your talent at gamescom 2012? Become your favorite character and flaunt your creativity in the Blizzard Costume Contest on Saturday, August 18. Be the terran, goblin, zerg or pandaren; mage, zealot, monk or demon hunter you've always wanted to be. The choice is yours!
The winner will receive some awesome prizes from our partners: an XMG P502 PRO Gaming Notebook by Schenker, a SteelSeries Diablo® III Mouse, a SteelSeries 7G keyboard, a SteelSeries QcK Diablo® III Edition mouse pad, a SteelSeries Diablo® III Headset, and a Mega Bloks Deathwing's Stormwind Assault set.
Eager to show off your moves? Choose a World of Warcraft race and put on your dancing shoes for the Blizzard Dance Contest on Sunday, August 19. Get ready to waltz like a worgen, boogie like a blood elf, or tango like a tauren.
The winner will receive an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 6 Series graphics card, a Mega Bloks Goblin Zeppelin Ambush set, as well as the same SteelSeries mouse, keyboard, mouse pad, and headset listed above.
If you'd like to sign up for the costume or dance contest, just send us an email at email@example.com with your name, date of birth, and a description of your dance or costume, with either [costume contest] or [dance contest] in the subject line. We expect swarms of competitors, so be sure to contact us as soon as possible. We'll let you know if you're selected to participate.
Details on these two contests along with a full schedule of all activities will be posted on our website soon, so be sure to check back. You can also visit our activities page for details. Experience our costume and dance contests firsthand at the Blizzard Entertainment booth in Halle 6.1 (B21) at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, August 18 and 19 respectively.
Our anniversary page is now home to a timeline detailing the 20-year history of Blizzard Entertainment. It covers nearly every major event, beginning in 1991 – when Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce, and Allen Adham started Silicon & Synapse, the company that would become Blizzard – and taking us to the present day.
To help with the reminiscing process, we've packed the timeline with nostalgia-inducing images of old offices, "retro" box art, the graphics and haircuts of the 90s, some of our most recent game release events, BlizzCons, and the opening of Blizzard offices around the world. Take a look, but keep your eyes on the timeline page, because we'll be updating it with more noteworthy occurrences in the future.
From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to thank the Blizzard community for supporting our games for over two decades – here's to many more!
By order of Ragnaros the Firelord, World of Warcraft is kicking off the summer with a blazing-hot summer sale. This week only, you can get the World of Warcraft: BattleChest, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm for a mere €10 (£8) each. That's up to 65% off the regular price, making this a great time to invite a friend to join you on your adventures in Azeroth.
Don't delay; this offer ends on July 9.
The largest games convention on Earth is happening in Cologne, Germany from August 15 to 19 this year. Blizzard Entertainment is excited to announce our presence at gamescom 2012, where visitors will have the chance to witness the world premiere of the World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ opening cinematic. The latest creation from Blizzard's cinematics team will be shown on giant screens at our booth on Thursday, August 16, the first fully public day of the event.
We're also pleased to announce that this year we'll be showcasing World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Diablo® III, and StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm™! Don't miss your chance to experience the games first-hand and to meet members of the development teams. In addition, be sure to get creative and join in our famous dance and costume competitions.
Visit the Blizzard Entertainment booth in Halle 6.1 (B21) at the Koelnmesse in Cologne and prepare to be epically entertained. For more information on gamescom, check out the official site.
Following the launch of Diablo III on May 15, the Lord of Terror has consumed a record number of souls. More than 3.5 million copies of the game were sold as of the first day of release, making Diablo III the fastest-selling PC game of all time. As of the first week of release, Sanctuary's heroes had already reached a total of more than 6.3 million. See the press release for all the gory details.
The gates of the Burning Hells opened last night, and many of our brave heroes united to face the challenge! If you were not able to attend one of our official launch events, or were distracted by the many prizes and activities that took place in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm or Warsaw, you needn't worry as we captured many unforgettable moments that you can enjoy at the new Official Launch Events photo gallery!
But last night was only the beginning: there are hordes of evil demons yet to be defeated! If you haven't already purchased your copy of Diablo III, you can do so and easily download the digital version here.


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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Oh, I have a few qualms, all right. Sure. . . but not too many. Not yet, anyway. I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. It takes things a while to hit me. All I'm doing right now is thinking about going home Wednesday. I'm a moron."
"Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?"
"Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do." I thought about it for a minute. "But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess."
"You will," old Spencer said. "You will, boy. You will when it's too late." (2.64-67)
Compare this conversation with Spencer to Holden's later conversation with Mr. Antolini. There seems to be some structural significance to these two conversations being placed—almost like bookends—around the rest of the text. Both men refer to some sort of crisis or downfall that Holden is surely approaching. Both talk (if somewhat indirectly here) about the importance of education. Both are a little gross—the white, hairless legs of Mr. Spencer and the fact that Mr. Antolini touches Holden while he's sleeping. How does Holden react here? Is it different from the way he reacts later?
Quote #5
"You ought to go to a boys' school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." (17. 46)
Holden thinks that the whole point of education is to make you rich, so it's inherently phony. To which we say—try being poor, Holden, and then turn up your nose at Cadillacs.
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"Here's what he said: 'The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'" (24.56)
It sounds here like Mr. Antolini might be worried that Holden's going to commit suicide. But what's Holden's "cause"? He wants to be the catcher in the rye—to protect the innocence of youth. If Holden did manage to turn himself away from the rest of the [adult] world, as a kind of recluse, maybe he would "die nobly."


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I found this company on the internet, spoke with them and turned over 300 accounts for them to collect. They had a web site that I could monitor actions taken on my accounts. This company collected over $800 on my accounts of which I have never received a dime from them. I made several phone calls to them only to get voice mail. I sent many emails and to date have not received any contact from this company. I have filed a report with the Florida BBB.
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