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SCHACHTER, JULIUS PhD*; MONCADA, JEANNE MT*; LISKA, SALLY DrPH†; SHAYEVICH, CLARA NP†; KLAUSNER, JEFFREY D. MD†‡
From the *Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California; †San Francisco Department of Public Health; and ‡Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
Supported in part by each of the manufacturers of the diagnostic tests: Roche Molecular Systems (Branchburg, NJ), Becton, Dickinson and Co. (Sparks, MD), and Gen-Probe Inc. (San Diego, CA).
Correspondence: Jeanne Moncada, MT, Chlamydia Laboratory at SFGH, UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bldg 30, Rm 416, San Francisco, CA 94110. E-mail: email@example.com.
Received for publication December 24, 2007, and accepted April13, 2008.
Background: Several nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are US Food and Drug Administration-cleared for detecting urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) infection, but they have not been adequately evaluated for the relatively common oropharyngeal or rectal CT and GC infections in men who have sex with men (MSM).
Methods: Multiple swabs were collected from the oropharynx and rectum of MSM attending a city sexually transmitted disease clinic. The specimens were tested by standard culture and the following NAATs: Roche's Amplicor (PCR), Becton Dickinson's ProbeTec (SDA), and Gen-Probe's APTIMA Combo 2 (AC2) for the detection of CT and GC. Confirmatory testing of specimens with discrepant results was done by NAATs using alternate primers.
Results: A total of 1110 MSM were enrolled. Based on initial findings on 205 MSM, PCR had a 78.9% GC specificity with oropharyngeal swabs. Thus, we discontinued PCR testing for the rest of the study. For oropharyngeal GC (89 infections detected), sensitivities were 41% for culture, 72% for SDA, and 84% for AC2. For rectal GC (88 infections detected), sensitivities were 43% for culture, 78% for SDA and 93% for AC2. For oropharyngeal CT (9 infections detected), sensitivities were 44% for culture, 67% for SDA, and 100% for AC2. For rectal CT (68 infections detected), sensitivities were 27% for culture, 63% for SDA, and 93% for AC2. Specificities of SDA and AC2 were ≥99.4% for both organisms and anatomical sites.
Conclusions: AC2 and SDA were far superior to culture for the detection of CT or GC from the oropharynx and rectum with AC2 detecting twice as many infections as culture. Further analyses with larger pharyngeal samples are needed, but clearly NAATs can improve our ability to diagnose rectal and oropharyngeal infection with CT or GC in MSM.
MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN (MSM) and engage in risky behavior (unprotected oral and rectal sex, multiple partners) have a high prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD).1 Early detection and treatment of STDs in MSM may prevent transmission to sexual partners, serious sequelae, or HIV transmission. Pharyngeal swabs are indicated for patients with pharyngitis or who practice fellatio, whereas rectal specimens are indicated for patients with proctitis or who have a history of receptive anal intercourse.2,3 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines recommend routine pharyngeal and rectal screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) in MSM to control these infections.4
Currently, the standard for testing in extragenital sites is culture. For CT, this means isolation in tissue culture (TC), a labor intensive, time consuming, and costly test that is not readily available. For GC, this is done by inoculation of solid media and subsequent identification of colonies as oxidase-positive Gram-negative diplococci, followed by confirmation (e.g., carbohydrate utilization tests). Specimen handling is also critical for culture. Optimum GC culture requires incubation (36°C) of a selective medium in CO2 or a candle jar immediately after specimen collection, whereas maintenance of a cold chain and a sensitive cell line is essential for CT culture. Neither procedure is suited for mass screening, nor is the direct Gram stain for GC appropriate, as it is insensitive for these sites.5
Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are highly sensitive and specific for the detection of CT and GC using swabs from the genital tract, or first catch urine specimens.6–9 These tests are widely available and have been used routinely for screening men and women. Assuming similar performance, it would be advantageous to use NAATs on rectal and pharyngeal swabs but none are US Food and Drug Administration cleared for use with extragenital specimens. Thus, to adhere to Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments regulations, laboratories must perform in-house validations to use NAATs with pharyngeal and rectal specimens. Previous studies have shown ligase chain reaction (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL, no longer manufactured) was sensitive and specific for GC from the pharynx and CT from the rectum.10,11 However, of the currently available NAATs, there are just a few anecdotal reports of testing Roche's Amplicor PCR (Branchburg, NJ) and Becton Dickinson's ProbeTec, (Sparks, MD) on extra genital sites,10,12–15 and none using Gen-Probe's APTIMA Combo 2 (San Diego CA). Extensive clinical evaluations have not been performed. Theoretically, NAATs should work on these specimen types. Recently, Lister et al.16 evaluated the specificity of the PCR assay and found that 94% (49/52) of COBAS positive Amplicor CT pharyngeal and rectal specimens collected from MSM were confirmed as positive by repeat PCR testing using the omp1 gene as target.
We initially planned to evaluate the performance profile of Roche's Amplicor CT/NG Test (PCR), Becton Dickinson's ProbeTec Assay (SDA), and Gen-Probe's APTIMA Combo 2 Assay (AC2), on oropharyngeal and rectal swabs collected from MSM. Results were compared with standard culture and a combination of positive NAATs. Apparent NAAT false positives were resolved by further testing with another NAAT targeting alternate primers. After the first 205 MSM were evaluated, we discontinued the use of PCR because of poor GC specificity obtained with oropharyngeal specimens. The study was continued, to evaluate the SDA and AC2 assays.
Subjects consisted of 1110 MSM attending the San Francisco City STD Clinic. Patients on antibiotic therapy within the last 21 days were excluded from participation. The Committee on Human Research at the University of California San Francisco approved this study and verbal consent was obtained from all patients. MSM with positive tests for CT were treated orally with 1 g of azithromycin and those positive for gonorrhea were treated orally with 400 mg of cefpodoxime. Patients with Gram stain evidence of GC on their urethral smear were treated for both GC and CT. The clinic recommends repeat screening at 3 months; however, most fail to return and only return if symptoms worsen. There is no routine "test of cure" as none are recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or others.
We obtained oropharyngeal and rectal specimens from each patient. Swabs were collected according to a block randomization schedule. From each anatomical site, a dacron swab for CT isolation and NAATs was placed into 3 mL of M4 medium (Remel, Lenexa, KS) which contains vancomycin, amphotericin B, and colistin, and a cotton swab for GC culture was streaked onto a Thayer-Martin plate (Remel, Lenexa, KS). Inoculated M4 tubes were held at 4°C and transported in an ice chest within 24 hours of collection to the University of California San Francisco Chlamydia Laboratory, where CT culture and all NAATs were performed. GC plates were immediately placed into candle jars and incubated at 36°C. At the end of each day, GC cultures were transported to the San Francisco Public Health laboratory for final identification.
CT isolation was carried out in cycloheximide-treated McCoy cells in one-dram shell vials using a modification of the procedure of Ripa and Mardh.17 M4 tubes were vortexed for 2 minutes, and then an aliquot was removed for NAATs. To reduce bacterial contamination in TC, rectal specimens were diluted 1 to 2 and 1 to 10 for inoculation onto McCoy cells. The cells were inoculated by centrifugation of inoculum at 3000g for 1 hour and incubated for 72 hours at 36°C in 5% CO2 before monolayers were stained to detect chlamydial inclusions. We used the MicroTrak C. trachomatis Culture Confirmation Reagent, a species-specific fluorescent antibody stain (Trinity Biotech Plc, Wicklow, Ireland). A blind passage was performed 4 days post inoculation, and we read coverslips from that second pass 3 days post inoculation.
Inoculated Thayer-Martin plates were incubated at 36°C in 5% CO2 for 48 hours. Presumptive GC colonies were Gram stained, oxidase tested, and subcultured onto chocolate agar. Pure cultures were confirmed by carbohydrate reaction tests (api NH, bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).
Before the study, the M4 media was validated for in-house use with each of the NAATs. For the PCR assay, 100 μL of the M4 sample was directly processed. For the SDA assay, 100 μL of the M4 sample was inoculated into a ProbeTec specimen transport tube and then processed. For the AC2 assay, 100 μL of the M4 sample was inoculated into an AC2 specimen transport tube and then processed. We followed the swab processing protocols in the individual NAAT package insert instructions. Technologists performing the NAATs were masked to any of the other results.
Specimens that were uniquely positive in 1 NAAT (negative by culture and other NAATs) received additional testing by a NAAT targeting alternate primers. For apparent false positive GC specimens, either a PCR or SDA targeting the pilin gene of N. gonorrhoeae or the APTIMA GC assay, which detects a different region of the 16s rRNA from AC2, was performed.18 For apparent false positive CT specimens, either a PCR or SDA targeting the omp1 gene of C. trachomatis or the APTIMA CT assay, which detects the 16s rRNA, was performed.18 This testing was performed blind. The APTIMA GC assay and APTIMA CT assay were done in-house, whereas the alternate amplification with SDA and PCR were done by the manufacturers. They were supplied coded specimens with 2 negative specimens for each potentially positive specimen.
For CT, true positives were defined as culture positive or 2 positive NAATs at that anatomical site or a single NAAT positive confirmed by an alternate NAAT assay. For GC, true positives were defined as culture positive or AC2/PCR positive or AC2/SDA positive or a single NAAT positive confirmed by an alternate NAAT assay. Because GC false positives are known to occur with the PCR and SDA (both assays may cross react with other Neisseria spp.), a PCR/SDA only positive was not considered a true positive result.19–21
We enrolled 1110 MSM in the study. The median age was 35.4 years, 91% identified as homosexual, 8% bisexual; 25% were HIV-positive. There were 672 (60.5%) symptomatic and 438 (39.5%) asymptomatic men. Of the 672 men with symptoms, 407 (60.6%) reported dysuria or urethral discharge, 14 (2.1%) rectal ulcers, 21 (3.1%) rectal discharge, 17 (2.5%) rectal warts, and 50 (7.4%) had a sore throat. The remaining 163 (24.3%) had other symptoms (rash, abdominal pain, genital irritation, etc.) More gonococcal infections were detected at both anatomical sites than chlamydial infections. There were 4 MSM infected with CT at both sites and 27 MSM infected with GC at both sites. Our preliminary evaluation (Table 1) of the first 205 MSM found that SDA and AC2 had good performance profiles, and were more sensitive than culture. However, PCR results obtained with the oropharyngeal swabs showed a 78.9% GC specificity. This result was unacceptable, as 39 of 51 (76.5%) of the PCR positives were false positives. Thus, we discontinued the use of PCR for the rest of the evaluation.
By culture, prevalence of GC and CT was 3.3% (36/1077) and 0.4% (4/1110) in the pharynx, and 3.5% (38/1077) and 1.6% (18/1110) in the rectum, respectively. Use of NAATs for GC identified an additional 53 oropharyngeal and 50 rectal positive specimens, thereby increasing the prevalence to 8.3% and 8.2%. For CT, 5 more oropharyngeal and 50 rectal positive specimens were detected, increasing the prevalence to 0.8% and 6.1% by NAAT testing.
Table 2 shows the performance profiles of culture, SDA and AC2 for the detection of N. gonorrhoeae. There were 13 (7 oropharynx and 6 rectum) GC culture positives that were NAAT negative. Discrepant analysis on apparent false positives (solely positive by 1 NAAT) confirmed an additional 23 more pharyngeal and 10 more rectal GC infections. Resolved SDA and AC2 sensitivities were 71.9% and 84.3% for the pharynx, and 78.4% and 93.2% for the rectum. After the uniquely AC2 positive specimens were confirmed as true positives the AC2 detected more GC infections than any of the other tests. GC specificities of the AC2 and SDA assays were ≥99.4% for both specimen types. Table 3 shows the performance profiles of culture and the NAATs for the detection of C. trachomatis. There were too few oropharyngeal positive (only 9) specimens to allow conclusions as to performance. We had 2 rectal CT culture positives that were NAAT negative. With rectal specimens, SDA and AC2 were more sensitive than TC. Following confirmatory testing, again AC2 detected more infections than SDA or culture. Confirmatory testing of unique positive NAATs identified 22 more (2 in SDA, 20 in AC2) rectal CT infections. Resolved SDA and AC2 sensitivities were 63.2% and 92.7% for the rectum. CT specificities were ≥99.6% with both oropharyngeal and rectal specimens.
Table 4 shows the resolution of all positive results. Using an alternate amplification, AC2 confirmed more specimens than SDA. There was no inhibition detected with the internal controls for the SDA and PCR assays with either specimen type.
Figure 1 shows prevalence of infection by symptomatic and asymptomatic status. More chlamydial rectal infection was seen in asymptomatic than symptomatic MSM. However, the opposite was seen with GC. We found more gonococcal infections (oropharynx and rectum) in symptomatic MSM. Table 5 shows NAAT sensitivities were better than culture regardless of symptoms for GC and CT detection. In general, culture performed better on symptomatic MSM compared to asymptomatic MSM.
We evaluated all 3 commercially available NAATs for the detection of CT and GC with oropharyngeal and rectal specimens in MSM. Based on 205 NAAT comparisons, PCR had a GC specificity of 78.9% with oropharyngeal swabs which would preclude its use with this specimen type. This result is probably because of the detection of genes shared with other Neisseria species. It is known that false positive results can occur with SDA and PCR as their target may cross react with several different species of Neisseria (N. cinerea, N. flavescens, N. lactamica, N. subflava, and N. sicca).19–21 However, this was not the case with rectal specimens where PCR specificity was 99.5%, and SDA specificity was 100%. Table 1 shows PCR had lower sensitivities compared with the other NAATs, but was equal to GC culture and better than CT culture. The internal control was performed with PCR; missed positives were not because of inhibition. That result may be in part because of the amount of processed specimen amplified. Test sensitivity may have been adversely affected because PCR uses the smallest volume, only 50 μL, whereas AC2 and SDA use 400 μL and 150 μL, respectively. Our results indicated that PCR would have limited application in a MSM population, as GC and CT should be tested for simultaneously with both oropharyngeal and rectal specimens. We therefore discontinued PCR testing after these 205 MSM were evaluated.
NAATs identified more oropharyngeal and rectal GC infections than did culture in our total sample of 1110 MSM (Table 2). Our findings are similar to results found at this same clinic in which twice as many pharyngeal N. gonorrhoeae infections were detected with ligase chain reaction compared with culture.11 However, not all NAATs have comparable performance profiles. Clearly, confirmatory testing gives a more accurate picture of test performance.22,23 Using an alternate amplification assay on sole positives (Table 4), the majority of AC2 apparent false positives (17 oropharyngeal and 10 rectal) were confirmed as true positives. Although 6 additional oropharyngeal positives were identified and confirmed by SDA, AC2 still detected more infections than SDA. Other studies using urogenital specimens have shown that AC2 is more sensitive and specific compared with other NAATs.7,18 Thus, these results are not surprising. Overall, AC2 had the best performance for GC detection at both anatomical sites. It should be noted that we used Thayer-Martin plates (containing vancomycin) for the isolation of GC; and there are reports of N. gonorrhoeae strains that are inhibited by vancomycin.24,25 Thus, if there were any vancomycin susceptible GC strains in our study group, these strains would probably be missed by culture and detected by NAAT. Because of the higher bacterial (and yeast) load from these anatomical sites compared with the male urethral, the use of a selective medium was necessary.
Prevalence of CT by culture was 0.4% and 1.6% in the oropharynx and rectum, respectively. Using NAATs with the same specimen types resulted in a 2× increase of positives with oropharyngeal specimens (4 to 9) and almost a 4× increase with rectal specimens (18 to 68). The large increase seen, especially with the rectal specimens, may in part be because these specimens are heavily contaminated with bacteria and may be toxic to the cells in TC, thus inhibiting isolation in cell culture. Only 9 true positive oropharyngeal CT specimens were identified. This number is too small to discuss NAAT sensitivities. NAAT CT specificities were ≥99.8% for the oropharynx. With rectal CT specimens (Table 3), AC2 had the best performance profile (sensitivity of 92.7%) compared with SDA (sensitivity of 63.2%). Here AC2 detected an additional 20 rectal positives following discrepant analysis (Table 4). Both NAATs were more sensitive than rectal cultures and were highly specific (≥99.6%).
In Tables 2 and 3 we present the performance profiles of the NAATs with and without the use of discrepant analysis. That analytic approach has been criticized as upwardly biased, increasing both sensitivity and specificity.26 Unfortunately lacking a true gold standard, there are few options as to analytic methods. If discrepant analysis is not performed, the "excess" positives seen with any more sensitive test will be considered to be false positives, as the other tests will not provide concordant positive results. Thus, there is a trade off here: one accepts the misclassification bias and considers confirmable unique results as false positives, or one accepts the bias inherent in discrepant analysis. The distribution of results that we obtained was predictable, given earlier studies that show the higher sensitivity of the AC2 assay, when compared with SDA.7,18
Although more CT rectal infections were seen in asymptomatic than symptomatic MSM, a similar pattern was not seen with GC infections (Fig. 1). Kent et al.13 also had comparable findings, her study found a higher amount of chlamydia infection in the rectum of asymptomatic MSM. As expected, culture performed better on symptomatic MSM, but NAAT performances varied by specimen type and symptom status. Regardless of whether MSM had symptoms or not, NAATs were more sensitive than culture for the detection of CT and GC with oropharyngeal and rectal specimens (Table 5).
In conclusion, it is feasible to use oropharyngeal and rectal specimens for the identification of CT and GC by AC2 or SDA. Performance profiles of NAATs do vary and there are limitations with the PCR assay; it is unsuitable for GC detection with the oropharyngeal swab. Introduction of more specific primers for confirmation (or primary detection) would be useful. Only a small number of positive CT oropharyngeal specimens were evaluated; further analyses with a larger sample size are warranted to obtain more precise performance estimates. It is clear from this study that NAATs are useful with these specimens, and that many more CT and GC infections will be detected than can be identified with culture. However, 100% NAAT sensitivities were not obtained. It is possible that optimal NAAT performance may only be achieved with specimens collected in the transport medium designed for each specific NAAT, and this may have resulted in some of our false negative NAATs. Even so the AC2 test detected twice as many CT and GC infections from both anatomical sites as were found by culture. It would be an important advance in the control of STDs, if manufacturers would seek US Food and Drug Administration-clearance for testing samples from these anatomical sites.
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The Travelling Medievalist is feeling a bit cranky. Upon arrival in her (non-medieval but still early modern) house in France, she discovered that not only did she have no hot water, but that the water that should have been hot was laced with anti-freeze and therefore toxic. Please don't ask me to explain French plumbing, but the upshot is that a new hot water heater has been installed to the tune of some 1200 euros, which is way more dollars than you want to think about.
On the plus side, the weather has been stunningly gorgeous. Soon people will start to fuss about the lack of water, but for the moment they are busy harvesting the wheat, a few weeks early. And the red currents, which are not normally picked until after Bastille Day, but which this year have demanded attention much earlier. We picked three bushes worth at my friend Wendy's last week, and that yielded 3 kilos of berries, which turned into quite a lot of pots of jam.
Jam (and its more delicate sibling, jelly) is not properly speaking a medieval phenomenon. Not in the Western world, at any rate. Jam requires sugar, and cane sugar was discovered in about 700 by the Arabs, who figured out how to use it to make all sorts of lovely things like sherbet and Turkish Delight. The Crusaders brought a sweet tooth home with them, but it was hard to indulge in France until the sixteenth century, when Catherine de Medicis brought an entire company of jam-makers to France. One book I've been reading insists that Nostradamus was the first maker of jam in France, but this seems too good to be true. In any case, making jam is one of the most satisfying occupations I know of, especially if you're working with a fruit like red current, which is naturally full of pectin and therefore almost fool proof. Of course it's hot work, leaning over the stove in clouds of current scented steam, in July, as you stir and stir and wait for the jam to reach that miraculous consistency when a tiny bit dropped onto a cold saucer holds its shape. But at the end of a sweaty afternoon, you have pots and pots of what looks like liquid rubies, all ready to be stored away for a cold day in winter when you will really need a bit of summer sun.

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Album Reviews
These are all excerpts from album reviews appearing April 1 through May 15, 2012:
THANK YOU, Everyone who has taken the time to write about the new band... much appreciation.
"Dexterous musicianship and catchy pop writing are upgraded to hyper-reality... Zammuto
blasts us with musical particles in narrow, swarming beams; each grain rendered with
hallucinatory clarity...His joy upon discovering that he still had music to make is evident,
and highly contagious". Brian Howe -Pitchfork
"F U C-3PO: Best New Track" -Pitchfork
"A lithe, spirited, and agreeable release, bursting with pop hooks. For all of Zammuto's
vocal and percussive tomfoolery, it has an emotional core. These tracks are ardent and
expressive when many current electronic musicians obfuscate or drench their messages in
pretension. Zammuto has the chops, but he never flaunts them in an off-putting manner. The
Books were all about constructing statements from the detritus of pop culture. Zammuto
excels at the opposite: deconstructing life into easily digestible songs that make you feel
something. The spotlight has moved from the head to the heart with piebald flourish."
"Watching Nick Zammuto at his eco-ranch home in Vermont, one cannot help but be taken by the
heartfelt beauty of it all: Here's the young dad grilling pizzas, playing with his children;
there's his pregnant wife cutting a pie filled with homegrown blueberries. In family and in
music, the man once behind The Books is an auteur of authenticity, alternately (and at times
simultaneously) wedding opposites: playful and ponderous, analog and digital, organic and
synthetic, permanent and ephemeral, fuzzy and foreboding... Like the life it sprang from,
the album is a statement of self-sufficiency born of creative tensions, between man and
woman, people and land, performance and recording. Within these dualities, Zammuto has
created something whole." -Paste
"Video Review - Nick Zammuto takes his penchant for playful experimentation to a full band setting.
Anthony Fontano - The Needle Drop
"This impressive album is another landmark addition to the post 2000 avant-pop oeuvre, in
every way the equal of Sufjan Stevens' Age of Adz, Fol Chen or Cornelius. The players
really make their instruments sing and the editing process makes the listener double take as
to what could be real and what isn't. Performances are shredded, re-composed, hollowed out
and turned upside down. Pieces are structured, non-repetitive and engrossing to listen to.
And joy of joys, there are even songs with lyrics which are smart. It's overcoming the
challenge of keeping things that are incredibly complex sounding really simple and direct
that impresses us. Zammuto have bottled the sweet joy of becoming, and with what perfect
timing – spring is here, and the whole world suddenly feels laden with opportunity."
Julian Tardo - Bowlegs Music
"When Nick Zammuto and his wife Molly were preparing for the birth of their first child, they
ditched their overpriced Brooklyn apartment for a 16 acre plot of high meadow land in rural
Vermont. Out behind the house sits a little shack that serves as Zammuto's music studio.
And while this idyllic, down home setting may conjure up images of banjo pluckin'
hootenannies and campfire sing-a-longs, the sounds that emanate from this back woods shack
are of another order entirely...the most captivating songs speak to the incredible potential
of the project, and are among the more engaging that I've heard in quite some time."
Robert Alford -Pop Matters
"We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club. Fortunately, we end up liking some
of them...This is an expansive debut, unattached from the stylistic spine of The Books, Nick
Zammuto's apparently gone a little crazy. It works." Grayson Currin -The Onion AV Club
"The album begins with the ecstatically titled "YAY," his soaring vocals chopped up into
thin slices of squeaky bursts accompanied by clanging drums. It's a giddy opener that
signals this won't be a post-breakup mope fest. Instead, Zammuto seems intent on showing
that for as brilliant as the Books could be, he was only scratching the surface of his own
musical interests within the group. No song overstays its welcome on the album, and a few
almost make you yearn for a more sprawling, indulgent director's cut... This record feels
like a race to an unknowable destination." Dan Jackson -CMJ
"The full-band approach to Zammuto gives it a more immediately infectious, even danceable
sound than that of much of his prior work... Zammuto spends equal time in both complex,
nuanced human mode and in haywire, hyperactive robot mode. Yet the distance between the two
isn't as great as it might sound on paper. These four musicians' greatest strength, and one
that Nick Zammuto himself has spent a solid decade perfecting, is making the synthetic seem
organic, and vice-versa. It may be a step closer to living among Replicants, but Zammuto
should be applauded for tapping into a formula to overcome the uncanny valley." -Treble
Breakfast at Sulimays:
"Flexing new muscles and honing new skills without abandoning the basic love for words that
served as the joyful inspiration behind everything the Books put together. And it is,
itself, a joyful record, prickly and playful and sometimes downright bizarre, but never less
than welcoming. Perhaps most successfully, it stands entirely on its own." Brent Able
-Coke Machine Glow
"You can never quite get a hand on it and the moment you do there's something totally out of place
and fascinating being thrown at you...super-funky... a great example of Zammuto's ability to call
to mind multiple genres and still sound totally alien to all of them." - American Grotesque
"A damn fine album... The overall strength of Zammuto lies in its song-writing." David
John Wood -No Ripcord
"Simply put, Nick Zammuto has released one the best albums of 2012." -Etcetcetcetc
"Well, the transition worked better than anyone could have possibly imagined... What is
surprising is that the quality of his new self-titled release makes it so fans likely will
no longer feel like there has been something truly lost with the break-up of his once main
musical project... It is an inspiring album, that expands its listeners conception of what
pop music can and should be." Mark Schiffer -In Your Speakers
"Whether it be the schizophrenic balladry of Too Late To Topologize or the contorted futuro-
folk stylings of Harlequin the Books suddenly appears to be a prologue to the history
currently being emphatically scribed by this greatly eccentric introvert and with a
tangible, earthly joy returning to fertilise his work, that enviable childish naïveté may
bloom... entirely ceremonious shredding of rulebook; The Shape Of Things To Come slithers of
inordinate promise and uncompromising artistry." -Dots and Dashes
"Potential singles are hardly a concern for Nick Zammuto... (the new band) retains the spirit
of humor, adventure, and experimentation his critically renowned former band The Books has
perfected over the past decade. This album is total sonic schizophrenia with a charmingly
high "huh?" factor: confusing, amusing, and consistently entertaining." Marty Flanagan
"Zammuto represents a form of reaction to the dissolution of The Books from its creator, and
although such reactions are generally dour affairs relating to loss this is an album that
often fizzes with energy. This is an album that revels in the possibilities of a new and
uncertain future. The technical proficiency displayed is too obvious to ignore (but) away
from Zammuto's obvious skill as a song crafter, the heart of this album is the drumming of
Sean Dixon which at times defies belief. He's more than capable of providing a solid
backbeat when required to drive these songs along, but when he really cuts loose as on the
skittering jazz freakout of Weird Ceiling it can be mind boggling." Sam Shepherd -OMH
"an important part of The Books' success was that they knew how to use a novelty without
letting it turn into a gimmick. And luckily, Zammuto keeps that tradition alive... it takes the
work of a truly visionary musician to re-contextualizes it into a different genre, all while retaining
the qualities that made him such a celebrated sonic auteur in the first place." Ryan Stanley -405
"An intelligent album of headphones music filled with warmth and soul. Zammuto sounds both
relieved and exhilarated by his newfound direction. Zammuto (the band) is a traditional
four-piece rock band set up with a guitarist, bassist, drummer and "multi instrumentalist."
Sure, it doesn't sound all that interesting, but their originality isn't predicated upon
their component ingredients, but instead upon the compositions Zammuto has crafted. As a
result, the recipe pairs well with Kasey's Avocado Toast with Poached Egg. All of the
ingredients in the recipe are pretty standard. Toast. Avocado. Poached Egg. But as an open-
faced sandwich, it's unique and delicious primarily because of the way the ingredients are
put together. Like the album, it succeeds because it relies on excellent ingredients
thoughtfully combined. -Turntable Kitchen
"Imagine a mixture of elements you love from Black Moth Super Rainbow/Tobacco, Beck, Laurie
Anderson, The Yes Album-era Yes, and that guy at the farmer's market who stands there
playing music for loose change while everyone heads the other direction looking for zucchini
and corn...Zammuto is that uncool kid that you want to be down with because he knows better."
John Book -This Is Book's Music
"There are no trick pony's here; Zammuto's creativity has the ability to outlast anything the
Books ever put out... this may be the most creative and experimental album to emerge this
year." -Team Hellions
"Listen to this album. It's been on replay for me for the past four hours. Seriously. I know
that you aren't really suppose to over-think this album, and rightfully so. Enjoy it for
what it sounds like and try not to be a d-bag like me and dissect it. It's good and I would
recommend it to you." Nickwan -402 Productions
"The first time I heard The Books... my idea of music was dismantled and rebuilt...Now, when
I listen to Zammuto, I hear a Books album explored and expanded, refined and premeditated
over a decade. The Books was an incubator and Zammuto was the egg... Zammuto made an
experimental album that doesn't expire. Prepare to give in to the percussive urgency,
melodic journeys and peculiar vocals. Leave your current collection in the truck of your car
in downtown Reno, place Zammuto on your shelf and see what happens next."
Erik Stabile -Potholes in My Blog
"Rather than being a 'music minus one' presentation, a recording in which part of a
distinctive collaboration is sorely missed, Zammuto has a distinctive sound all its own.
...one looks forward to many more interesting sounds from Nick Zammuto." Christian Carey
-File Under
"Rooted in his new home in the Green Mountains of Southern Vermont, Nick Zammuto and his band
record and mix all of their music on their land. Nick Zammuto and his talented group of
family are in a state of self sufficiency musically from the rest, pushing a lush landscape
of cinematic pop into extremes of beauty never felt before...The drumming is incredible on
this debut, with Sean Dixon paving a new road for Nick and the rest of the group to play
on... Zammuto is a record we can't get enough and one that we feel is pushing the evolution
of positive forward thinking exploratory music to even newer unseen heights." Erik Otis
-Sound Colour Vibration
"Zammuto is indeed the offspring of Books co-founder/songwriter Nick Zammuto, on a more solid
tact towards organic songwriting with huge dollops of that instinctive cut-up structuralism
that's achieved in a given Books song by the splicing of a galaxy's worth of found samples."
John Bail -Impose
Live Show Reviews
Mr. Zammuto hasn't changed his mission, only his backup." - THE NEW YORK TIMES
"For the nascent Zammuto, the show displayed a preponderance of potential, that full-to-bursting new-band fervor." - HEY REVERB
"Zammuto is definitely worth checking out." - SLUG MAGAZINE
"Zammuto looks to be an exciting chronicle of an American remix master's delightful experiments." - SSG MUSIC
"With the combination of a diverse range of samples of songs, acoustic instrumentation and a variety of other sounds heard in various situations, the musical style of Zammuto is unlike anything you've ever heard." - THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE
"The band only got to perform for a half-hour, but it was an arresting half-hour of turbulent sounds, accompanying visuals, and lovely craftsmanship." - LA MUSIC BLOG
"…something that both old-school organic music lovers and electro-philes alike can appreciate." - SF STATION
"Prepare to have your mind blown and ears ringing…" - DAVIS ENTERPRISE
"To say that Nick Zammuto is a musician would actually be cutting the guy short. He's more of an inventor of undiscovered and yet-to-be-invented ways of creating sounds and then crafting them into picturesque songs." - KAFFEINE BUZZ
'Natural Balance' Steph Kretowicz -The Quietus
'Denver Westword Interview' Tom Murphy -Westword
'Zammuto - Interview' Julian Tardo -Bowlegs
'...Homesteading, Failed Band Names, And Working Real Damn Hard' Adam Coronado -Stomping Grounds
'Zammuto's second act pays homage to his past' Adam Coronado -Current
'The Space Between' John Kay - AQNB
'Portrait: Nick Zammuto' Will Butler -East Bay Express
'Nick Zammuto on the Very Busy Start to His 2012' Tobias Carrol -The L Magazine
'Nick Zammuto Talks About Ending the Books, Starting His New Project' Ryan Dombal -Pitchfork
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Will this specific phone work well where I want it to?
Planning to buy an unlocked Android phone US / Amazon for regular visits to the US, but also need it to work in several other countries if I just buy a sim on arrival. I do not need roaming or to receive calls to a US number in other countries. There are a gazillion different answers on different websites. Anyone have a pretty good idea if I'm OK with this one? [more inside]
Best mobile phone plan for Europe/UK holiday?
We're holidaying soon, and I'd like to get a local sim card to make life a little easier. We're spending most of our time in the UK, but will also be visiting Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin. Are there any good options that would cover the lot?
How can I avoid paying $200 for a dumbphone?
My husband recently irreparably damaged his cheap Verizon phone and wants to get a new dumbphone to use on a Verizon contract. We don't have any upgrades available. Verizon is asking for ~$200(!!!), even though prepaid phones of the same type only cost $25. Is there any way we can avoid paying this extortionate amount? [more inside]
Help us upgrade our iPhones?
It's time to upgrade our iPhones and I feel that I lack a PhD in rocket science or whatever is required to decipher AT&T's policies and get the best deal. Help? [more inside]
Recommendations for a mobile phone for Mom?
My Mom is 78, has and can use a laptop and Google Voice but is not particularly tech adventurous. She walks about 5 - 7 miles a day and is really self-sufficient, but we'd like to procure and use a mobile phone for her at the very least for coordinating emergencies about other people, and maybe so she can coordinate her own, if needed. I am having trouble formulating the problem and finding solutions with Google, and could really use your help and advice! [more inside]
Name My Mobile Phone (at least it's not a baby or a pet or a playlist)
I am considering one of those "design your own" mobile phones and would like to make the most of the limited line of characters that can be printed on the back. Examples and requirements within. [more inside]
Getting a US data plan for my foreign cell phone
I am travelling to Chicago in two weeks and want to use my smartphone whilst I am there (and away from WiFi). Importantly though I am not actually bothered about making phone calls. DATA is what I crave. What are my best sim card options? [more inside]
Jumping ship to Android (Google's S4) and need a Mailbox equivalent
I think the time has come for me to jump the iPhone ship. The announcement of the Google version of the Galaxy S4 at I/O was the clincher. But I am not 100% sold on the idea, mainly because the S4 is an ugly brute, but also because I fear for the apps and innovation I will miss. Help me out, specifically in finding a worthy replacement for my beloved Mailbox app. [more inside]
I need to buy a phone in the US for somebody else to use in Mexico.
My mom moved to Mexico recently, and I have had a hard time contacting her via phone. She's staying with relatives of her boyfriend, but it seems like she's not able to use their phone to make international calls. I'd like to get her a mobile phone that she can use to call me and her other kids (or anybody else), but I'm a bit overwhelmed by what I'm finding with google - a lot of which seems targeted to making international calls from the US to other countries or just seems spammy. What is a good way to buy a phone here and send it to Mexico? [more inside]
Help me choose a no-contract dumbphone for my mom.
Looking for prepaid phone recommendations for an older person in the US. No smartphone, no texting, just very occasional outgoing voice calls. [more inside]
Can someone tell me how I can confirm my location (in the UK) of where I was a couple/few weeks ago please. At the time I was using an HTC Hero phone on the O2 network.
Can someone tell me how I can confirm my location (in the UK) of where I was a couple/few weeks ago please. At the time I was using an HTC Hero phone on the O2 network. [more inside]
Facetime for Android?
Is there a way to talk make a Facetime call from an Android phone to an iPad? [more inside]
Who is the best mobile phone carrier in Dublin?
My cousin is moving to Dublin to go to medical school in two weeks. When he gets there, he wants to sign up for a mobile phone plan. He intends to get an iPhone 4 (not negotiable), and cannot wait until the 5 is announced for prices to drop. But which carrier does he go with? [more inside]
Cell Signal Boost Out of the Valley
The only un-awesome thing about my new apartment near Tempe, AZ is that neither I nor my roommates are receiving any signal strength on our cell phones due to the low mountains surrounding our location. We all have differerent providers (T-Mobile, Verizon, & AT&T) and not a lot of money. Please help me find a cellular signal booster that doesn't cost an arm and a leg or more than $100. I don't even know how to begin.
I'm looking for recommendations for a cheapish, basic, reliable phone. I'm in the UK. [more inside]
Do you like your phone? Tell me about it!
I'm looking for a cheapish mobile phone that can do basic internet chores (facebook, email, basic web stuff). I can't afford a smartphone or the monthly contract that comes with them. I am in the UK. Do you have a phone in this category that you like/hate? What would you recommend? Extensive information about my personal needs and whims follows: [more inside]
I need more than just a product brochure
Help me decide whether to buy a Nexus One. Unusual questions about switching service providers, SIMs, and international options inside. [more inside]
What free services exist out there that automatically send a text message alerting you to something or another?
Ever since I was pointed towards Umbrella Today I've yet to be caught out in the rain without an umbrella. I'd quite like to find other free services that automatically send a text message alert. It can be about whatever, doesn't have to be weather related at all. I live in Providence, Rhode Island.
If you were a G1, and you were born today, what cell phone would you be?
I would like to buy a nice new cell phone with a physical keyboard to replace a broken G1. Please help me with any knowledge about the Droid or the Cliq or any other suggestions you may have! [more inside]
Did I mess up my phone's reception?
Could I have messed up my cellphone's reception when I replaced its casing? I recently replaced the casing on my phone: taking my phone apart, unscrewing lots of things, then putting the phone into a new case. I just followed online instructions; I don't have a lot of experience with these sorts of things. I can't remember when it started, but my phone seems to say "Emergency Calls Only" or "No Carrier" quite regularly now, and I never noticed it doing this in the past. Is there something I can do to fix it? [more inside]
How can I be certain my iPhone doesn't send or receive data except phone, text and Wi-Fi?
How can I make sure my iPhone 3G doesn't transfer *any* internet data while retaining phone, texting and Wi-Fi capability? [more inside]
I want my damn 3G...
Is there any (genuine) way to improve my cell/mobile phone signal? [more inside]
Making my laptop behave like a phone over bluetooth
I've noticed that mobile phones have a much easier time talking to each other than to most laptops/PCs. Is there any software out there that can make a PC behave like a mobile phone? For some reason I'm expecting mostly open-source, but anything is welcome.
Mobile software for the mobile traveller?
What applications/software for your mobile device did you find useful/essential for travelling? [more inside]
Microcell or cell phone booster?
Which will work better for me for improving my cellphone coverage, a microcell unit or a booster? [more inside]
Cheap calls please
UK Mobile phone monthly contract recommendations? [more inside]
Help me save my poor little phone
Last night, a friend accidentally spilled a drink over my mobile phone. Now it sort of works. What can I do? [more inside]
P.S. I'll find my phone. Who took my phone.
UK phone fraud: Someone stole my phone and rang up £3000 of calls to Nigeria. The phone company says it's my fault for not keeping tabs on the phone and I have to pay it. Is there anything I can do? [more inside]
Ping Pong Cellular Telephony: Chinese phones and US SIM cards
Phone from China, SIM card in the US: what do I need to know to make sure I have a working cell phone when I return to the US for a month or two this summer? [more inside]
Verizon or AT&T in NYC?
What's the best wireless phone service for the NYC area? I'm as fed up with Verizon as the next guy, but my limited experience with an iPhone in Manhattan left me with dropped/missed calls and very intermittent access to maps, etc. (unless already cached). Putting aside fun features that usually work, and imagining your life depended on receiving or making a phone call, which network would you choose?* *Please speak from experience with a carrier and nevermind the silly games they play (e.g., crippling bluetooth, etc.); I simply need a service that doesn't miss or drop calls.
Nokia N95: is it better than a stick in the eye?
I have serious tech lust. I think I want to get the American version of the Nokia N95. Please help me decide if this is the phone for me. [more inside]
Help me control the stereo with a phone.
What's the cheapest mobile phone available in Australia which speaks 802.11b or 802.11g?
How do I remove the simlock of a siemens c55 phone given that I have the unlock code?
I have a siemens C55 telephone that is simlocked. I've also gotten the unlock code off my provider a while back. The problem is I either didn't receive or have lost the unlock instructions, i.e. what exactly I need to type into the phone along with the unlock code, and whether this should be with the original sim card, a new sim card or no sim card at all loaded. I know I can unlock it without the code if I have a data cable, but I don't have a data cable and they'd probably cost more than the entire phone is worth. Googling is made difficult by the millions of sites offering to unlock phones for low low prices.
How to transfer mobile phone contacts from one phone to another?
How does Verizon Wireless in-store tech support transfer an address book from one mobile phone to another? [more inside]
Cheaper cellphone texting from the UK to the USA.
How can I save money sending hundreds of SMS messages (and making occasional phonecalls) from my UK mobile phone to a USA cell? [more inside]
Cellphone Filter: Hunt for a superphone.
Cellphone Filter: Help, getting a new phone this week! Looking for an awesome superphone. [more inside]
Mobile phone video formats & conversion
A couple of questions about mobile phone video formats: [more inside]
How can I track down my ideal mobile phone?
I'm looking to upgrade my mobile phone, and I don't want to be limited to my provider's (T-Mobile's) choices. I have specific needs for the phone, in extended. I'd like to know if anyone knows of a phone that fits these requirements, or, better yet (and more useful to others), what are some good ways to track down a particular model that fits my specific needs? [more inside]
Cell phone: off or on to make battery last?
I'm sure somebody else who's travelling over Thanksgiving could also benefit from this knowledge. I brought my cell phone with me on my five-day trip to my parents' place, but of course I forgot the charger. The question I ask is: 'tis nobler to leave the phone on continuously and hope the battery pulls through, or is it a better idea to turn the phone off every night and turn it on only at the point in the day when I plan to use it? Does powering off and on drain more battery power than idling / the cell phone equivalent of "sleep"? FWIW, I have a relatively new Nokia 6682, and the battery is currently showing a full charge but I suspect it's lying, as I think it's been at least 24 hours since I charged it (that said, this battery's done five days unplugged before).
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Summer stack
After a bumper lemon season, your shelves should be full of the creamy lemony spread. Make a stack of thin crepes, plump American-style pancakes or wafer biscuits with curd and sliced new-season berries, dredged with icing sugar of course.
For an instant sweet gratification, stir into a thick, Greek-style yoghurt and add crushed biscuits (amaretti are good). Or mix with an equal quantity of whipped cream, berries and crushed meringues for a lemony Eton Mess.
Don't trifle with me baby
Whip up individual baby trifles for Christmas dinner - or a sneak preview, now. Soak ladyfinger biscuits in sherry (or orange juice), layer with lemon curd, whipped cream and fresh berries (or stewed apricots from the pantry).


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Second Generation Web Services
In the early days of the Internet, it was common for enlightened businesses to connect to it using SMTP, NTTP, and FTP clients and servers to deliver messages, text files, executables, and source code. The Internet became a more fundamental tool when businesses started to integrate their corporate information (both public and private) into the emerging Web framework. The Internet became popular when it shifted from a focus on transactional protocols to a focus on data objects and the links between them.
The technologies that characterized the early Web framework were HTML-GIF/JPEG, HTTP, and URIs. This combination of standardized formats, a single application protocol, and a single universal namespace was incredibly powerful. Using these technologies, corporations integrated their diverse online publishing systems into something much more compelling than any one of them could have built.
Once organizations converged on common formats, the HTTP protocol, and a single addressing scheme, the Web became more than a set of Web sites. It became the world's most diverse and powerful information system. Organizations built links between their information and other people's. Amazing third party applications also weaved the information togethe; examples include Google, Yahoo, Babelfish, and Robin Cover's XML citations.
Related Reading
Web Services Essentials
First generation web services are like first generation Internet connections. They are not integrated with each other and are not designed so that third parties can easily integrate them in a uniform way. I think that the next generation will be more like the integrated Web that arose for online publishing and human-computer interactions. In fact, I believe that second generation web services will actually build much more heavily on the architecture that made the Web work, using the holy trinity: standardized formats (XML vocabularies), a standardized application protocol, and a single URI namespace.
This next generation of web services will likely adhere to an architectural style called REST, the underlying architectural model of the current Web. It stands for "representational state transfer". Roy Fielding of eBuilt created the name in his PhD dissertation. Recently, Mark Baker of Planetfred has been a leading advocate of this architecture.
REST explains why the Web has URIs, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and many other features. It has many aspects and I would not claim to understand it in detail. In this article, I'm going to focus on the aspects that are most interesting to XML users and developers.
The Current Generation
SOAP was originally intended to be a cross-Internet form of DCOM or CORBA. The name of an early SOAP-like technology was "WebBroker" -- Web-based object broker. It made perfect sense to model an inter-application protocol on DCOM, CORBA, RMI etc. because they were the current models for solving inter-application interoperability problems.
These technologies achieved only limited success before they adapted for the Web. Some believe that the problem was that Microsoft and the OMG supporters could not get along. I disagree. There is a deeper issue. RPC models are great for closed-world problems. A closed world problem is one where you know all of the users, you can share a data model with them, and you can all communicate directly as to your needs. Evolution is comparatively easy in such an environment: you just tell everybody that the RPC API is going to change on such and such a date and perhaps you have some changeover period to avoid downtime. When you want to integrate a new system you do so by building a point-to-point integration.
On the other hand, when your user base is too large to communicate coherently you need a different strategy. You need a pre-arranged framework that allows for evolution on both the client and server sides. You need to depend less on a shared, global understanding of the rights and responsibilities of a participant. You need to put in hooks where compliant clients and serves can innovate without contacting you. You need to leave in explicit mechanisms for interoperating with systems that do not have the same API. RPC protocols are usually poorly suited for this kind of evolution. Changing interfaces tends to be extremely difficult. Integrating services typically takes complicated software "glue".
I believe this is the reason no enterprise has ever successfully unified all of their systems with DCOM, CORBA, or RMI.
Now we come to the crux of the problem: SOAP RPC is DCOM for the Internet.
There are many problems that can be solved with an RPC methodology. But I believe that the biggest, hairiest problems will require a model that allows for independent evolution of clients, servers, and intermediaries. It is important, then, for us to study the only distributed applications to ever scale to the size of the Internet.
The Archetypal Scalable Application
The two most massively scalable, radically interoperable, distributed applications in the world today are the Web and email. What makes these two so scalable and interoperable? They depend on standardized, extensible message formats (HTML and MIME). They depend on standardized, extensible application protocols (HTTP and SMTP). But I believe that the most important thing is that each has a standardized, extensible, global addressing scheme.
There's an old real estate joke that the only three things which make a property valuable are location, location, and location. The same is true in the world of XML web services. Properly implemented, XML web services allow you assign addresses to data objects so that they may be located for sharing or modification.
In particular, the web's central concept is a single unifying namespace of URIs. URIs allow the dense web of links that make the Web worth using. They bind the Web into a single mega-application.
|Does the REST model make sense, or is SOAP enabling something that couldn't have happened otherwise?
URIs identify resources. Resources are conceptual objects. Representations of them are delivered across the web in HTTP messages. These ideas are so simple and yet they are profoundly powerful and demonstrably successful. URIs are extremely loosely coupled. You can even pass a URI from one "system" to another using a piece of paper and OCR. URIs are late bound. They do not declare what can or should be done with the information they reference. It is because they are so radically "loose" and "late" that they scale to the level of the Web.
Unfortunately, most of us do not think of web services in these terms. Rather we think of them in terms of remote procedure calls between endpoints that represent software components. That's CORBA, DCOM thinking. Web thinking is organizing around URIs for resources.
Claim: The next generation of web services will use individual data objects as endpoints. Software component boundaries will be invisible and irrelevant.


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100 Women We Love: Injoy Fountain
We are thrilled to present the 2013 list of 100 Women We Love - Including...
"I wanted to be a ballerina, but I was also a huge tomboy," says 23-year-old Injoy Fountain, about discovering her passion for performing and musical theater in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas. "I'd play sports with the boys, then go put on my tights and tap shoes for dance class." Before she'd even graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, Fountain landed her first professional role in a pre-Broadway run of the musical Fat Camp and earned critical acclaim for her vivacious vocals. After playing major roles in various productions, ranging from Alma Hicks in The Music Man to the Sour Kangaroo in Suessical the Musical, she's breaking into the music industry—you'll find her singing at gigs all over New York with Jaime Cepero's (of NBC's hit show Smash) Band, and with Condola Rashad's actual band, Condola and the Stoop Kids. "I'm so blessed to be where I am, and especially to have the support of my LGBT community," says Fountain. "I hope to become a role model for girls all over the world. It's okay to love yourself and be true to who you are." –QW
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Ubuntu 11.10:
 sudo aptitude remove gnome-screensaver
sudo aptitude install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra electricsheep
sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command
GL: electricsheep --root 1 \n\
to ~/.xscreensaver
Run electricsheep either directly from commandline or as preview from xscreensaver-demo:
[avi @ 0x1b10080] max_analyze_duration reached
[avi @ 0x1b10080] max_analyze_duration reached
Terminated only written to CLI if running electricsheep directly. From xscreensaver-demo, the message "signal 15" appears on the screen as well.
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According to Dr. Gunter Schuele, Novartis Animal Health pig and poultry marketing manager, the eight new sales team members bring the backgrounds and experience necessary to help swine producers, veterinarians and nutritionists succeed, and is one element of Novartis' overall strategy to improve producer profitability.
"Working with veterinarians and nutritionists to develop a swine herd health program is one of the most important steps producers can take to achieve profitability," Schuele says. "Our newly expanded swine sales team will provide producers, veterinarians and nutritionists with greater access to the herd health tools they need to be successful in the years ahead."
The new Novartis Animal Health Swine team members include the following:
Novartis also announces that Dr. Dean Dau and Sean O'Hare have been promoted to the positions of swine sales manager and key account sales manager, respectively. In their new roles, Dr. Dau will manage the swine sales team and related sales activities; and O'Hare will lead the key account sales managers and related sales activities. Dr. Dau previously served the Novartis Animal Health swine business as a professional services veterinarian. Prior to his new role, O'Hare led the pig and poultry sales team as the sales manager for the farm animal business.
About Novartis Animal Health
Novartis Animal Health researches, develops and commercializes leading animal treatments that meet the needs of pet owners, farmers and veterinarians. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis Animal Health conducts business in 40 countries and employs about 2,600 people worldwide. For more information, please consult http://www.ah.novartis.com.
About Novartis
Novartis AG provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies. Focused solely on healthcare, Novartis offers a diversified portfolio to best meet these needs: innovative medicines, cost-saving generic pharmaceuticals, preventive vaccines, diagnostic tools and consumer health products. Novartis is the only company with leading positions in these areas. In 2008, the Group's continuing operations achieved net sales of USD 41.5 billion and net income of USD 8.2 billion. Approximately USD 7.2 billion was invested in R&D activities throughout the Group. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis Group companies employ approximately 98,000 full-time-equivalent associates and operate in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.novartis.com.
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For further information, contact Novartis Animal Health US, Inc., Customer Relations Department, 3200 Northline Avenue, Ste. 300, Greensboro, NC 27408; 1-800-843-3386.
© 2009 Novartis Animal Health US, Inc.
Novartis Animal Health Media Relations
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Happy New Year!
I guess that's still appropriate. Things go so fast now I should be mentioning Ground Hog Day.
I hope your Christmas was as good as mine. Everyone was healthy and got to my house on Christmas morning and everyone meaning all my children and their spouses, my granddaughters and their husbands and the four great-grandchildren.
They were dressed alike, and as the two young men gazed at the camera from beneath jaunty caps atop their heads, all the anticipation and zest for life was reflected in their eyes.
Brent and Ashley Roberts of Worthville would like to announce the birth of their second child, Claxton, a baby boy born Sept. 17, 2012, at Franklin Regional Medical Center.
Claxton was 19 1/4 inches long and weighed 7.9 lbs. He was welcomed home by his big sister Audrey. Proud grandparents are Steve and Kimberly Hawkins and Allen and Teresa Roberts.
I'm getting a slow start this morning. The coffee hasn't quite reached the brain yet. Last week was a very busy one for me. It seemed like I was at the computer or on the phone most of the week. People to notify, questions to answer for Pat or Rita and finding others who had moved and should be notified. If you have never had to cope with the "business of death," it's daunting the first time you have to do it.
Things did fall into place and Johnny Bob's memorial service was really nice.
It was like coming back home for Christmas. Elbow room was in short supply, and if you were lucky enough to find a seat it was wise to stay put. The lights and homemade ornaments on the tree seemed to embrace the nostalgic atmosphere and beckoned the crowd to gather round to talk, laugh and remember.
Though made of iron, the horse's silhouette seemed to wiggle with delightful anticipation. His movement may have been the result of vibrations from the flatbed trailer upon which he stood, or perhaps it was just a bit of the Christmas magic which filled the air during the Owen County Christmas Parade Dec. 2.
Chad and Katie Dunn are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Kinlee Fulton.
Kinlee was born Nov. 15, 2012 at 12:56 a.m. She weighed 8 lbs. and 5 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Mark and Nancy Criswell. Paternal grandparents are Benny and Elva Dunn, all of Owenton.
Kinlee was welcome home by lots of family, especially her aunt Kenzie and uncle Cody.
I think the drought is broken. I think we must have had 3 inches of rain since it started raining last week. None of us know because we take our rain gauges in the first of December to keep them from freezing and cracking. Not the case this year. Its been near 60 on the Branch all week and is still about 50 this morning. The Branch has been running high since Friday. I talked to Fay this morning and she said they had been checking their gap every day to make sure it hadn't washed out. Otherwise they have been keeping close to the house.
Each was unique. Some showed evidence of being painstakingly cut and carefully crafted by small hands. Others bore marks of well thought-out planning. Not all had been signed, but those that were revealed names such as Jasmine, Hailey, Brie, Hannah, and Rachel.
For this Christmas season, the tree in the parlor at the historical society museum will reflect nostalgic times in Owen County when families constructed their own ornaments, made homemade gifts and despite the lack of material things, celebrated Christmas with great joy.
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The Owenton News-Herald is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Owen County and Owenton, KY, and the surrounding area.


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Wrong again.<quoted text>
Contrarian, my arse.
You are denigrating the victim of a sex crime, as you always do.
Salivating over the enraged reactions you've received, as you always do.
Defending your indefensible behavior, as you always do.
I'm out.
I am making irreverent, off-the-wall, tongue-in-cheek comments. For some reason, most of you people are too obtuse to understand the vein in which they are made. It's hilarious to see so many people get so hot and bothered by something off-the-wall typed anonymously on the internet by a complete stranger.
By the way, I wonder if bottom's an-uhs is still bleeding.


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Daniel W. "Red" Robinson, 75, House Rd., Clayton, died Thursday, January 24, 2013, in Syracuse.
Calling hours will be held at Cummings Funeral Service, Inc., Clayton on Wednesday, January 30, from 6 - 8PM and there will be no funeral service.
Red was born in Ogdensburg on June 21, 1937, son of Willard and Myrtle Fifield Robinson, and he graduated from Canton Central High School.
He had been a cheese maker for Crowley Foods, LaFargeville. For 22 years he worked for the Town of Clayton at the transfer site and had been supervisor for several years. After his retirement from the Town, he worked for himself in lawn care. He enjoyed attending NASCAR racing and watching it on television.
Red is survived by his wife of 45 years, Della R. Roberts; his son, Barry D. Robinson and wife, Carolyn L., LaFargeville; son-in-law, Jeff Grant, Cape Vincent; several grandchildren and great grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
He is also survived by three sons and three daughters from a previous marriage, Tammy and Wayne Bishop, Becky and Tad Remi, Mary Beth Joanette, Brian Robinson, Randy and Sue Robinson, and Kevin and Michelle Robinson. His daughter, Deborah "Debbie" Grant, died April 2, 2012.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Richard E. Winter Cancer Treatment Center, 5 Lyons Place, Ogdensburg, NY 13669.
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Questions of Janoris Jenkins' character plummeted his draft stock this past April, but his off-the-field behavior shouldn't keep him from becoming a shutdown corner in the NFL. Jenkins was drafted 39th overall to the St. Louis Rams in the NFL draft this year, and newly hired coach Jeff Fisher loves the kid.
"He's very talented…and that has shown just in the last couple days," Fisher said via ProFootballTalk after the Rams' first OTAs.
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Too. Cool.
My one concern is: can one cook safely over Sterno cans? (Apparently yes according to Sterno's own documentation.) And oh, I guess I need to get clearance from my venue too.
And having different flavors of marshmallows could make it even more seriously awesome. I'd love to write suggested recipes that guests could try on a menu on the side (e.g. Dark Chocolate Raspberry – chocolate graham cracker with raspberry marshmallow and dark chocolate: Vanilla Nut – honey graham cracker with vanilla marshmallow and chopped toasted pecans: and of course Traditional S'mores - honey graham cracker with milk chocolate and vanilla marshmallows)
Ahh, this is such a GREAT idea! I love smores!!
i love this idea. i bet it was a hit at your wedding
This is a sooo cool! You will be the talk of the town! I've never seen the flavors that you are using!! How unique!! Now you have me hungry!!! :)
What an amazing concept & set-up! I have to agree with Wolfmaure, completely ;) I'm definitely adding this concept and giving all credit to you on my "drool worthy" page...this is fantastic!!! I hope you don't mind :-/


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David Cage, the founder of Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, will be unveiling his studio's next game at Sony's E3 2012 press conference next Monday, June 4, a "trusted senior development source" tells CVG. The same source also revealed that the Paris-based game maker is working on two projects for Sony, though one or both may be aimed at a platform other than the PlayStation 3.
There's no word on what shape the mysterious E3 reveal game might take, but between QD's Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy, some sort of deeply interactive story-driven experience seems likely. Cage showcased the results of his more recent efforts in GDC 2012's "Kara" demo, prompting many to speculate that a new game reveal was imminent. This rumor certainly supports that. We'll find out soon enough, with less than a week to go before Sony trots out its upcoming lineup for E3-goers.


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Many great images can be found not far from your own front door. For Dan, the few miles along the Susquehanna River just North or South from his home/studio are a treasure trove of inspiration and material in rural south-central Pennsylvania. There is, of course, the river. But there are also miles of hiking trails and lime kiln ruins and abandoned buildings and . . . Just across the river in Lancaster County is a small river town called Marietta. On the edge of town is an architectural preservation site known as Musselman Vesta. It was on the grounds of this site that Dan stumbled upon these Toadstool "Sidhe" or Fairyfolk. While the Musselman Vesta will be preserved for the sake of history, the land surrounding it is reclaiming itself! Look closely at the world around you . . . if you are attentive, you will discover all sorts of treasure!
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- n. A rare silicate mineral of the mica group.
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- n. In mineralogy, a kind of mica, allied to biotite, but characterized by the presence of a large amount of iron protoxid and the almost complete absence of magnesia: it is found near Pike's Peak in Colorado.
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Watch Karrueche Tran Wash a DeLorean
Volume five, issue one of The Hundreds Magazine premiered less than a week ago, and the brand had some footage edited together of their cover shoot with Karrueche Tran.
Volume five, issue one of The Hundreds Magazine premiered less than a week ago, and the brand had some footage edited together of their cover shoot with Karrueche Tran.
Take a peak at Rihanna being all cute and stuff for my man Terry Richardson. This photo shoot is for the "Good Girl Gone Bad" latest feature in Rolling Stone magazine.
Boy oh boy, has Elle Fanning grown up or what? The now 14-year old actress, sister of Dakota Fanning, has been making waves in Hollywood since her first big role in "I Am Sam".
Mother of God, Mila Kunis is hot! The 28 year old actress who is best known for her role as Meg from Family Guy and Justin Timberlake's "fuck buddy" in Friends with Benefits, poses perfectly for Interview Magazine's August 2012 issue.
Maxim sits down with the girls of Project X. Essentially it was an excuse to get 3 girls into a room, photograph them wearing nothing but their underwear, and shoot silly string at each other.
Talk about a blast from the past! I had to double take the title to make sure this wasn't an actual Madonna photo shoot. This beauty is non other than Sky Ferreira.
Tattoo'd hottie Hattie Watson shoots for The Hundreds Magazine. See all the photos after the jump…
Scarlett Johansson is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair's December 2011 issue. See the photos after the jump…
I'm always looking for a good place to store my CB2 and Urban Outfitters catalogues that collect dust on my coffee table. This rack takes a simple x-foundation and turns it into a fun living piece to have in your home or office.
Confusing title I know but it is what it is. Terry Richardson shoots Chloe Sevigny dressed in the standard Richardson attire for Candy Magazine Issue 3.


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I f I am interpreting correctly, you must find a point P which minimizes the distances from the cities to the main road.
You can do this with similar triangles.
Solve for x and we get
You could derive a formula using Pythagoras and then differentiate, set to 0 and solve for x, but you'll get the same solution only with a lot more work.


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America's most popular sport is back with the Cowboys defeating the G-Men in last Wednesday's season opener. Expect an exciting battle for the NFC wildcard as the Giants, Cowboys, and Bears all show playoff potential this year. Although the Giants dominated the Bears in the first half of their pre-season game (showing a week offensive line and aging defense–Urlacher's knee problems), the reunited Jay Cutler/Brandon Marshall combo has the potential to put up some big numbers offensively this season for Da Bears.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm a HUGE football fan! And I'm not talking about that "other" sport.. I'm talking about the pigskin hurling, field-goal kicking, hard-hitting sport we know & love in the USofA! That's right, we don't just talk about video games here at Gameloft! :P
In week 12 we will get to see a rematch of last year's NFC Divisional playoff game as San Francisco comes to the Superdome to take on the Saints. With the 49ers #1 ranked defense and Moss, Manningham, LaMichael on offense–Drew Brees will need a repeat of last season which was without a doubt one of the best in NFL History.
In the American Conference, I am looking to my home team–the Pats–to cakewalk through this season. Already a great offensive team, the New England Patriots got even better in the off-season with the addition of Chandler Jones and Dont'a Hightower to help solidify the defense. I can't wait for week 5's matchup between Brady and Manning, two future Hall of Famers with both teams favored to make the playoffs. In the North, don't rule out the Steelers, Bengals, or Ravens this year as they compete for the top spot in one of the toughest divisions.
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Category:Solid state circuits
Devices composed of a solid material where the flow of electronics is confined to the solid material
- Circuit subsystems - the organization of some aspects of a larger circuit into a distinct system
- Circuit theory - the theory of accomplishing work by means of routing matter through a loop
- FET circuits - a circuit that relies on field-effect transistors
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No more warm-up tournaments. The time is now. The 2013 Australian Open kicks off today.
Amidst all the lead up excitement for the first major of the year, there were two tournaments this week in the ATP World Tour, one in Sydney and one in Auckland.
One tournament had its fair share of surprises and upsets, while the other seemingly stuck to the script. Both of the tournaments were 250 level tournaments, but what they lacked in points they made up for in important preparation for Melbourne.
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FIFA Soccer 13, one of EA SPORTS' most successful franchises, is certainly off to a good start, and the game isn't even out yet. The demo has apparently been downloaded 1.99 million times in just three days, by folks across 73 different countries. Talk about international appeal, right?
Now if that weren't enough of an indication that FIFA's a popular series, FIFA 13 currently boasts over 875,000 pre-orders with two weeks until launch. That number is bound to go up between now and then.
The upcoming soccer (a.k.a. the real football) game will be out in North America on September 25, then Europe and the rest of the world on September 28. European fans do, however, have the opportunity to access the game six days in advance using EA's Season Ticket program. US fans get access on September 21 with the same program. If you're interested, just fork over $24.99 and snag the following benefits:
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Skip to comments.Did Colorado shooter single out Cinemark theater because it banned guns?
Posted on 09/11/2012 7:01:29 AM PDT by marktwain
With 12 dead and 58 wounded, the July 20th shooting at the Cinemark Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado was sure to result in a lawsuit. On Friday, the first suit was announced, claiming Cinemark has primary responsibility. The theater did have responsibility for the attack, but not for the reasons that the lawyers bringing the case think.
The lawyer bringing the suit, Attorney Marc Bern, with the New York city law firm of Napoli, Bern, Ripka and Scholonik, suggested the theater should have had security guards the night of the attack. Yet, checking bags or metal detectors at the front of the theater that night wouldnt have prevented the attack. The killer brought his guns in through an emergency backdoor.
Armed security guards at movie theaters are rare in low crime areas, such as Aurora, especially on less crowded weeknights. And, with an audience fleeing the theater, armed guards may have experienced difficulty getting quickly inside.
So why did the killer pick the Cinemark theater? You might think that it was the one closest to the killers apartment. Or, that it was the one with the largest audience.
Yet, neither explanation is right. Instead, out of all the movie theaters within 20 minutes of his apartment showing the new Batman movie that night, it was the only one where guns were banned. In Colorado, individuals with permits can carry concealed handgun in most malls, stores, movie theaters, and restaurants. But private businesses can determine whether permit holders can carry guns on their private property.
Most movie theaters allow permit holders carrying guns. But the Cinemark movie theater was the only one with a sign posted at the theaters entrance.
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This is one of the few times a lawyer may do some good.
I don't know how everyone else feels about this subject but personally I pay no attention to those signs that say that concealed weapons are not allowed. If the need for the weapon arises the fact that you were carring against the owners wishes means nothing. I was caught one time when a waitress saw my weapon and reported me to the manager...he asked me to just keep it hidden and it was no big deal.
Gun-shop employee prevents massacre(California, 1999)
A perfectly reasonable statement. Is there law to back it up? (Asking because I hadn't been aware of that, and need to point it out to the HR doofs who put big bright "gun free" zone stickers on our office doors.)
Is that a common law doctrine, and if so, where can I find a good reference on it?
I would start with search of common sense and the law references.
See "Erik B. Scott, Costco Las Vegas."
I guess Aurora is "low crime" if you compare it to Chicago.
Who would have thought that denying the law-abiding of their right of self-defense would deny the law-abiding of their right of self-defense?
[Leaving out the /sarc tag to save precious Internet resources see Im saving the planet because I care more than you!]
I would presume that all businesses that post No Weapons Allowed stickers have previously discussed the matter with the company attorneys and insurance agent.
I doubt that the insurance policy would be a huge financial burden on any business. I mean what are the odds of a nutcase shooting up your theater?
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Brooklyn Heights is a family-friendly community in a neighborhood of (mostly) low-rise buildings, trees, playgrounds, churches, synagogues, mosques and restaurants. We have one main shopping street — Montague Street — though you can find interesting stores tucked away on our other quiet streets. The neighborhood extends south from Old Fulton Street to Atlantic Avenue, and west from Cadman Plaza/Court Street to the Promenade & the East River, encompassing the Brooklyn Heights Historic District (New York's first!) and the blocks surrounding it.
POPULATION: As of the 2000 census, 22,493 people live in Brooklyn Heights, up 11.5% since 1990. Of that population, 77% is white, 7% African American, 5% Asian American, 7.5% Latino and the remainder, multi-racial. Brooklyn Heights per capita income is $60,973, which is up 14.5% from 1990. But about 14% of our neighbors live in poverty.
HOUSING: Of the 12,042 housing units in the Heights, 57% are renter-occupied, 40% owner-occupied and 3% vacant.
LENGTH OF TIME LIVING HERE: Only about 49% of residents have lived in their current home for five or more years. Some moved from elsewhere in the Heights or Brooklyn, but it appears that nearly 40% are new to the borough.
CARS: About 33% of Heights households own at least one car. That's over 3,800 cars, not counting workers, commuters, shoppers and two-car families. The percentage is slightly higher than Manhattan's, but lower than the citywide or Brooklyn norms.
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