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Whether warranted or not, school boards have been something of a punching bag in recent years. In 2008, The Atlantic Monthly ran a story by the Center for American Progress's Matt Miller titled "First, Kill All the School Boards." U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has repeatedly touted the virtues of mayoral control of school systems since taking his post in 2009. Meanwhile, the role of boards has evolved in light of a changing policy environment. In the past decade, No Child Left Behind, new state accountability systems, and a relentless focus on student achievement have brought district governance into a new era.
How have boards and their members responded to these pressures? What have these changes meant for board policy and practice? And what does it mean to be a board member today?
This winter, we released a new study that examined precisely these questions. In one of the first systematic national surveys of members since 2002, we collaborated with NSBA, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the Iowa School Boards Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation to offer a comprehensive look at who sits on boards, how boards work, and what board members today think. The report -- School Boards Circa 2010: Governance in the Accountability Era -- presents an up-close look at the individuals charged with governing America's 14,000 school districts.
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Fresh, flavourful, health-giving ingredients will add some pep to your step.
This is the ideal time of the year to start to spruce up for summer. In the cold months of winter we are all drawn to comforting foods which, as the weather starts to change, can work to leave you feeling sluggish. Looking for lighter, healthier options should be priority right now. That's why today I've created recipes that scream with flavour, texture and fresh vitamin-fuelled ingredients that will have you feeling well and bursting with energy.
The first recipe uses quinoa - a name that people always find hard to pronounce (it's keenwa) - a gluten-free wholegrain that can be boiled and used like rice or, cooked first then toasted in a pan for more flavour. I have paired it with all the goodness of fresh ginger, shredded raw beetroot, lemon and sesame for flavour. It's a delicious salad and would be even more flavoursome if you add grilled salmon or shredded duck meat.
It is so good to see ripe avocados in the stores right now, all so full of flavour.
Avocados contain mono-unsaturated fat and because of their rich buttery texture can be used in cake recipes and also instead of butter on toast. (My favourite quick breakfast on the run is, in fact, avocado and tomato on marmite toast with plenty of salt and pepper.) They are full of fibre, potassium, vitamins B and E, and folic acid which adds up to a supreme vegetable. Today I've combined avocado with crab meat for a fresh and tasty salad.
Crab meat is high in vitamin B12 and folate. Crab meat has become more readily available and not nearly as expensive as it used to be. Ideally you would catch your own and dig the sweet meat out from the claws.
Whole crabs are easy to find but you can use tinned crab meat as a back up.
The last recipe is inspired by a recent trip to a refugee festival. The sun was shining, the music was fantastic, the food was interesting and delicious but one stall stood out for me. It was selling an island smoothie - 'otai - made from crushed watermelon (you could use rock, or honeydew, depending on what is available), mixed with fresh coconut, coconut water, honey and ice cubes, poured into a large cup. It was so delicious to sip in the sunshine; a healthy offering and a much better alternative to fizzy drink for the children.
Coconut water is currently being hailed as the laste wonder drink and you can buy it in stores. It is has a unique way of making you feel instantly rehydrated as soon as you have a drink. It is a natural isotonic, full of vitamin B12 and detoxifies and cleanses.
Chef's tip
All the ingredients for these recipes need to be as fresh and as ripe as possible in order to appreciate the optimum vitamin and mineral content.

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Samsung, as I've noted before, is one of the most prolific digital camera manufacturers. Its range currently includes the GX20 digital APS-C SLR, the two models that currently comprise the NX compact system camera range, and no fewer than 26 compact cameras. Although that may sound like a lot, this is actually fairly restrained for Samsung; its compact camera range has often run to over 35 models.
The newest camera in that huge list is the WB2000 compact that I'm looking at today. The WB series is home to most of Samsung's high-end compacts, such as the excellent WB650 travel camera, the WB5000 super-zoom, and the WB1000 advanced compact, the predecessor of today's camera.
Like the WB1000 the WB2000 is a technically advanced camera aimed at experienced users, featuring a high quality Schneider Kreuznach f/2.4-5.8 5x zoom lens (equivalent to 24-120mm), a 10-megapixel back-illuminated high speed CMOS sensor, a 7.6cm (3.0 inch) VGA resolution AMOLED monitor, and a full range of manual exposure controls. In terms of competition the WB2000 is in the same category as the Canon S95 (£290) and the Panasonic LX5 (£330), although its closest rival is probably the Casio EX-FH100 (£245), which has similar high-speed shooting options. The WB2000 is quite expensive by comparison, currently selling for £290, although that price will probably drop fairly quickly as dealers offer discounts coming up to Christmas.
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Apartment with 2 rooms, kitchen, terrace
Size50 m²
Floor No.1
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Lockable room
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Oesterstraße, 44309 Dortmund, Germany
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We offer a newly renovated beautiful 2 room apt . for up to a total of 6 people in the center of Dortmund Middle - Brackelmann , only 15 minutes to the city center (bus, subway, taxi)
10 minutes from the airport (bus, subway, taxi) , rental car service ,
5 min to highway ,
to reach surrounding cities ( Essen, Bochum , Cologne, Dusseldorf , Bremen, Hamburg , Hannover .... ) quickly ,
In the vicinity , about 5 minutes you can find bus , subway , taxi , restaurants , casino, several supermarkets , cafes and Large green areas such as
Conservation Area Buschei main cemetery with ancient trees , higher than the Westfalen Park
- Wickeder Ostholz with the Pleckenbrinksee
- Allotments
- a network of bike paths
Sports facilities , indoor pool, stables and 2 golf courses
Racecourse ,
-BVB Training Center
- Archdiocese of Paderborn and many beautiful churches
- Cultural balou
City Branch Library
Community College
- There are only 11 km to the Marine Park Luenen and Ems Canal
There are only 6 km to Phoenix Lake
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Very beautiful and newly renovated 2 bedroom apartment at Casa Brasil ,
The apartment is equipped with 6 single beds , wardrobe, table & chairs and bench, and television.
One room has access to a spacious terrace.The central kitchen has enough space for a cozy get-together . The other room on the street side has direct access to the windowed bathroom with toilet and shower.
The beds are freshly made , fresh towels provided , also , there are pots, plates and utensils to cook for ourselves , there is also a coffee maker , kettle , toaster and microwave...
WLan Internet is also included and 7.5% tax, and parking
House rules- Smoked allowed only outside the house, or outdoors,
we ask for compliance, since smoke odor perpetuates itself and also
the respect due to the other guests!
- From 22.00 clock room volume is desired!
- No parties and drugs!
- Bed-hopping and jumping is undesirable
- In general duty of care and cleanliness, please pay attention!
- Please only toilet paper in the toilet and rinse well is permitted, everything else please in the trash,
- Animals and visit by appointment only!
- Only to use beds which correspond to the number of persons, z.Bsp .: 2 persons (1 pair) 1 bed, if not avoided additional cleaning costs will be payable of € 10 per bed!
- When using the Internet, it is forbidden, illegal download
To use platforms!
- During the heating phase, please close windows and doors!
- Furniture and fixtures must not be altered or taken away!
- When a key is lost € 25 fee will be charged!
- When leaving the apartment, please make sure the lights, stove and
Oven is switched off, and the water is turned off!
- Street shoes please do not use in the apartment, ggbf. be able
Slippers are provided.
Failure to comply are additional Costs, and / or immediate termination!
Deposit at arrival!
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|$ 33 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Beautiful nice apartment, easily accessible, friendly landlord
Schöne nette Wohnung , gut erreichbar, freundliche Vermieter
Small very luminous home, not far from the center, easy access to local transport.
Kleines gemühtliches Heim, nicht weit vom Zentrum, gute Anbindung an den örtlichen Nahverkehr.
Leider nicht wie auf den Bildern vorgefunden, statt dessen eher dreckig und unhygienisch; verstopfte Dusche; Sehr laute Musik jede Nacht und teilweise nicht vorhandenes WLAN Signal.
Leider nicht empfehlenswert !
Wohnung ist sehr sauber, große Küche, zwei große Schlafzimmer, Bad und schöner Terrasse. Der Preis ist etwas hoch für eine Nacht, aber ich glaube das, dass an Wimdu liegt, da die ja auch mitverdienen wollen. Jedenfalls Wohnung Tip Top, sollten wir wieder nach Dortmund reisen, gerne wieder :-)
Reviews for this host's other properties
Very nice host. The shower and toilet is shared with another apartment, but this was not a problem for us.
Sehr netter Gastgeber. Die Dusche und das WC teilt man sich mit einer anderen Wohnung, was für uns jedoch kein Problem war.
Everything worked out great :) very close located to public transport, quiet location.
Apartment cozy, 3 bedrooms with shower each with TV, bathroom. Was clean and very friendly, helpful hosts :)
Would not hesitate to book again :)
Es hat alles super geklappt :) sehr nahe gelegen zu öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln, ruhige Lage.
Wohnung gemütlich,3 Zimmer jeweils mit Fernseher,Bad mit dusche. War sauber und sehr freundliche,hilfsbereite Gastgeber :)
Würden es jederzeit wieder buchen :)
Very close to training center of Borussia Dortmund, easy access to city center via public transport. Stores, local restaurants and even a skittle-alley in walking distance.
Not super luxurious rooms, but in good shape, very clean and cosy.
Very kind hosts.
We chose this place as it was closely located to my sister's family in Dortmund. However it really isn't that far from the centre of town - about 15 minutes on a tram. The apartment is cosy sized and the loft area with a second bed is pretty cool.
The apartment is really nice and I have felt totally comfortable. It is indeed quite far out, but the connection to bus and train is fine. All very clean and good facilities. To be recommended!
Die Wohnung ist wirklich sehr schön und ich habe mich total wohlgefühlt. Sie liegt zwar ziemlich weit außerhalb, aber die Anbindung an Bus und Bahn ist prima. Alles schön sauber und gute Ausstattung. Zu empfehlen!
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The journal scope in focus -- putting scholarly communication in context
Just imagine if all authors currently writing up manuscripts about a subject were instead to coordinate their efforts by collaborating on a single but detailed and balanced citable reference in which the topic would be described in and linked to all relevant contexts, updated as new research results pass peer review.
Since the advent of printed scholarly periodicals in the late Middle Ages, context in scientific communication has mainly been established by providing each of these publication venues (now collectively referred to as journals) with a scope, typically in terms of topics or methods covered, or with respect to a perceived threshold in newsworthiness.
Besides establishing context, the scope also defined the audience -- and thus indirectly the number of printed copies, their pricing and their distribution amongst individuals and institutions -- as well as criteria to be met by manuscripts in order to be considered for publication. Given the scope of a particular journal, consequently, knowledge about specialist terms (which may describe completely non-congruent concepts in different fields), methodologies, notations, mainstream opinions, trends or major controversies could reasonably be expected to be widespread amongst the audience, which reduced the need of redundantly repeating the same things all over and again. Interestingly, redundancy is still quite visible nonentheless, especially in the introductory, methods and discussion sections and the abstracts, often in a way characteristic of the authors (such that services like eTBLAST and JANE can make qualified guesses on authors of a particular piece of text, with good results if some of the authors have a lot of papers in the respective database, mainly PubMed, and if they have not changed their individual research scope too often in between).
Of course, there would be side effects: A manuscript well-adapted to the scope of one particular journal is often not very intelligible to someone outside its intended audience, which hampers cross-fertilization with other research fields (we will get back to this below). When using paper as the sole medium of communication, there is not much to be done about this limitation, and we got so used to it that few indeed would perceive it as a limitation at all. However, the times when paper alone reigned over scholarly communication have certainly passed.
So, in principle, the online version of a manuscript could link directly to any appropriate source of information (even blogs, for that matter, if no better source is available or accessible; see here for an example) but in current practice, linking is usually achieved paper-style, i.e. indirectly, via a list of references which itself is often not linked to online versions (let alone openly accessible ones) of the references in question, even though Uniform Resource Identifiers like DOI and SRef have been around for about a decade now, and International Standard Book Numbers longer still.
The above-mentioned hampered cross-field fertilization is crucial with respect to interdisciplinary research projects, digital libraries and multi-journal (or indeed cross-disciplinary) bibliographic search engines (e.g. Google Scholar), since these dramatically increased the likelihood of, say, a biologist stumbling upon a not primarily biological source relevant to her research (think shape quantification or growth curves, for instance). What options do we have to integrate these cross-disciplinary hidden treasures with the traditional intra-disciplinary background knowledge?
Interestingly, lack of context is also a consistent feature of most "Facebooks for scientists" (including ways.org which hosts this blog) - in fact, the whole set of scholarly pages on the www is the appropriate network for researchers but so far it is not optimally connected, particularly because formal scholarly communication has not yet fully hatched from the structures it had during the paper-based era (see also this nice overview of the current situation). Just imagine if all authors currently writing up manuscripts about a subject were instead to coordinate their efforts by collaborating on a single but detailed and balanced citable reference in which the topic would be described in and linked to all relevant contexts, updated as new research results pass peer review. Of course, this would shift the focus away from periodicals (and, in passing, render things like a journal's scope and Impact Factor superfluous), which is likely to meet resistance from the publishing establishment.
Groupware comes to mind in this regard, and wikis in particular: They allow to aggregate and inter-link diverse sets of knowledge in an online-accessible manner, basically for free. The by now classical example are the Wikipedias, and one scientific journal - RNA biology - has already announced that it requires an introductory Wikipedia article for papers it is to publish on RNA families, an idea that recently spurred an ongoing debate on the merits of such an initiative and of doing it with Wikipedia.
An investigation (video lecture by Bill Wedemeyer here, my brief annotation here) of the quality of a set of science articles in the English Wikipedia is currently being written up for classical paper-style publication but the preliminary results indicate that "[t]here is a subset of reliably helpful science articles on the English Wikipedia for outreach, teacher training, and general science education" (slide shown at 29:35min in the video). However, the distribution of the set of articles was skewed towards the Good Article and Featured Article classes which constituted only 2% of the English Wikipedia at the time of investigation, and it did not include articles in the humanities (they come next).
Furthermore, the larger Wikipedias have a serious problem with vandalism: take an article of your choice and look in its history page for reverts - most of them will be about changes like this or worse. This is less of an issue with more popular topics for which large numbers of volunteers may be available to correct spammy entries but it is probably fair to assume that most researchers value their time too much to spend it on repeatedly correcting such information if it had already been correctly entered once. Other problems with covering scientific topics at Wikipedia include the notability criteria which have to be fulfilled to avoid an article being deleted, and the rejection of "original research" in the sense of not having been peer reviewed before publication. Peer review is indeed an important aspect of scholarly communication, as it paves the way towards the reproducibility that forms one of the foundations of modern science. Yet I know of no compelling reason to believe that it works better before than after publication (doing it beforehand was just a practical decision in times when journal space was measured in paper pages).
Fortunately, the Wikipedias are not the only wikis around, and amongst the more scholarly inclined alternatives, there are even a number of wiki-based journals, though usually with a very narrow scope and/ or a low number of articles. On the contrary, Citizendium, Scholarpedia (which has classical peer review and an ISSN and may thus be counted as a wiki journal, too), OpenWetWare and the Wikiversities are cross-disciplinary and structured (as well as sized, for the moment) such that vandalism and notability are not really a problem (with minor exceptions, real names are required at the first three, and anybody can write about anything, particularly their fields of expertise). None of these is even close to providing the vast amount of context existing in the English Wikipedia but they might perhaps if the latter were broken down to scholarly useful stuff, as discussed above. Out of these four wikis, only OpenWetWare and some Wikiversities (here counted as one) currently allow for original research to be published on their site - in the case of OpenWetWare, this is indeed the main purpose.
Further, a number of more specialized scholarly wikis exist (e.g. WikiGenes, the Encyclopedia of Earth, the Encyclopedia of the Cosmos, or the Dispersive PDE Wiki) which can teach us about the usefulness of wikis within specific academic fields. I will not dwell on details here but instead list a number of features I deem desirable for future scholarly wikis, derived from experience with existing ones. These include, in no particular order:
- search engines that integrate or otherwise compare favourably with major scholarly search engines on the web (the already mentioned Google Scholar and PubMed as well as, say, the BioText Search Engine that searches Open Access text and images)
- pan-disciplinary scope, with consistent disambiguation of specialist terms (mainly but not fully achieved at Citizendium)
- some system of peer review (basically, any wiki allows to leave comments, annotations or formal reviews on talk pages of users or articles but these ratings should be featured more prominently; templates like those visualizing article status at Citizendium may help with that); this may be as simple as disallowing individuals to add information to Citizendium when the only available support is their own non-reviewed research published at OpenWetWare - the real name policy will minimize misuse
- the uploadability of all kinds of media (including videos, which are blocked at the Wikipedias but allowed at Citizendium, for instance, and the scope of the Journal of Visualized Experiments) that traditionally (if you can call a habit that barely is a decade old a tradition already) went along with paper-based publications as "supporting online information" (which would be easily integrated in an all-online article with no sharp space limitations)
- stable versions for contents that has undergone peer review (like the Approved Articles at Citizendium), along with draft versions for anything else (including improvements to and updates of previous stable versions); like any non-protected page at the Wikipedias, these draft versions can serve as a playground, though a real-name policy would probably make it a more educational one
- a separate namespace for references (already in use at the Dispersive PDE Wiki and the French Wikipedia, in test at Citizendium); as a side line, this would open up ways for new citation metrics, via the What links here function
- attributability of contributions (automatically realized, though not in the traditional scholarly way, in any wiki with a real name policy like that at Citizendium, via the User contributions function; special arrangements exist at Scholarpedia and WikiGenes; OpenWetWare does allow nicknames but real names prevail; the Wikiversities have basically the same user name policy as the Wikipedias)
- easy download of selected sets of pages for local archiving by individual researchers
- licenses that allow unrestricted reuse and derivative work if the original source is properly acknowledged (typically CC-by-SA or the older GFDL, both of which are hopefully going to be compatible soon)
- resource-effective design (see also discussions on the energy use of the internet and individual websites)
- integration with the non-scholarly world (certainly achieved in the Wikipedias and Citizendium), particularly with students (cf. the Eduzendium initiative at Citizendium) and non-English contents
- automation of the formatting, as already common in non-wiki environments, e.g. with LaTeX templates (none of the wikis I know comes close to that, albeit templates are heavily used at the various Wikipedias and, to a lesser extent but in a more consistent manner, at Citizendium; they seem to be rather rarely used on smaller or more specialized wikis); the same applies to references, though automated wikificationhas already progressed considerably here, despite the lack of wiki export functions at publisher's sites (or of suitable XML-to-wiki converters for those who provide XML)
One of the most useful templates in use at Citizendium is that for subpages (open the Biology article in a separate window to see what this is about) :
- The article's main page is a stable version, approved by an author with expertise in that field
- Next comes the Talk tab that leads to the discussion page, as per default in any wiki
- the Draft tab leads to the editable version (this only applies for articles that have already been approved; in others, the main page is editable)
- the Related Articles tab roughly corresponds to "see also" in the Wikipedias but is more usefully structured for navigation and somewhat replaces the categories which are heavily used in Wikipedia but only to a limited extent at Citizendium
- there are further subpages: Bibliography for further reading, External Links, Gallery, Video and so on
It is interesting to see that these individual subpages largely complement existing social networking tools and have thus the potential to replace them (or to be replaced by them), at least for scholarly purposes:
- the Bibliography subpage is a context-based alternative to CiteULike, Zotero, BibSonomy and other reference managers, possibly in conjunction with Open Library, scholarly search engines and tools like Scribd or Papers. One problem wikis cannot solve is that of access to paper-based research publications but due to the current spread of Green and Gold Open Access initiatives, this is likely to change in the next few years anyway.
- the External Links subpage is a context-based alternative to conventional social bookmarking as known from delicious and simpy
- Additional subpages could be tailored to meet the needs of individual categories of articles (e.g. properties of chemical elements, genes, stellar constellations etc.) or more general scholarly needs (e.g. peer review, slides, code, protocols, or bot-generated transcripts from video lectures)
Besides, User pages may provide context-based alternatives to individual pages at different networking sites, and possibly even to blogs like this one, while the Recent changes page could turn into an alternative for friendfeed, with items on your Watchlist (if you are logged in) equivalent to friendfeed rooms or personal feeds you are subscribed to. For the record, this social networking component of Citizendium has already been discussed two years ago, prior to its official launch and thus at a time when many of its current structures and their implications were not known yet.
Finally, and importantly, the easy availability of context (once the system would be reasonably well adopted by scholarly communities, and the encyclopedic corpus thus reasonably complete) would make it more easy to guide expert attention and thus to identify obvious gaps in current knowledge (e.g. by means of an expert evaluation of items listed on the Most Wanted page), and science funders could then issue a call for research proposals on such topics (e.g. via a Calls subpage, InnoCentive, Mechanical Turk or by more traditional means). And while we are at it, I think science funders, job committees and review panels would profit from familiarizing themselves with the workings of wikis, particularly the aspects relevant to reliability, attribution, and outreach (your organization, company or university probably has a page on Wikipedia - take a look at it, along with its history and talk pages, and you will almost certainly find something to improve).
To sum up, the still fledgling Citizendium currently seems to be the closest match for a cross-disciplinary scholarly wiki anchored in the real world, and independent of whether it will allow original research to be posted in the future or not, this essential function in scholarly communication can be fulfilled by OpenWetWare (indeed, a similar separation of powers is one of the most healthy elements of most democracies). If widely adopted, this would entail a major shift in the way research is being done and communicated, towards what has come to be known as open science. As a side effect, commercial publishers would have to look for new things to publish, other than original research (non-commercial publishers like scholarly societies may, after the usual period of resistance, see more advantages than disadvantages in the groupware model). Reviews at different levels of expertise may be one option, and tutorials or other learning tools another but all this could be done via some intelligently structured set of groupware, too, depending on the incentives involved (in fact, such reviews are the scope of Scholarpedia). A side effect for researchers would be that they could use the author fees, page and figure charges and all the other money currently required to publish a paper for other purposes.
Of course, there are potential problems with such an enormous concentration of knowledge (e.g. for attacks and misuse, especially in relation to an international author identification that is currently being discussed). The obvious solutions are appropriate mirroring and otherwise transparency. Similar concerns would apply to a journal like PLoS ONE that does not have a scope in the traditional paper-limited sense mentioned above, yet two years after launch, it is doing pretty well, and my guess is that if it were to adopt a symbiosis with a suitable wiki in a way similar to the RNA Biology initiative, it may even do better.
As a next step, I wish to go into more detail concerning the relative merits of paper-based and wiki-based scholarly communication. So I started a Wikiversity page on wikis in scholarly communication and invite you to add to it (I chose Wikiversity such that those who object to real name policies may make their voice heard, too, and I think I can deal with spam should it arise there). This overview may also help in working out an ecological footprint scheme applicable to research, as described previously.
I dedicate this post to my granny who passed away last week.
Good work Daniel! I
Good work Daniel! I think this article makes the case for the future of collaboration in science related fields, which obviously means we are going to be spending some of the next generation redefining what we already know and hopefully moving on from there. I see the part about attribution, but it doesn't mention citizendium. I think one of the biggest features would have to be the 'real names' policies.
Hi Matt, thanks. I have
Hi Matt, thanks. I have rephrased that passage.
This post was an experiment
This post was an experiment in that it was drafted in public, such that people like Matt and Jean-Claude could comment. Thanks to both! Now it's finished.
Daniel,Nice, comprehensive
Nice, comprehensive post! The failure of web 2.0 tools in science has been a popular topic for discussion and wikis are one of the most prominent examples (aside from OWW), so this review of wikis in science and where they're going is great. Sometimes I wonder if change will come less from the actions of the passionate few than from the behaviors of the incoming generations. As said in "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky, "revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies - it happens when society adopts new behaviors."
Open science is currently
Open science is currently vividly being discussed at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2009. You can follow it via a dedicated friendfeed room (a window into which is provided below).
Excellent and resourceful
Excellent and resourceful work. Your granny would have been proud.


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Amazing Apartment City Center (B)
Size28 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Hot tub
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
- Pets allowed
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Záhřebská, 120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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|A few hours
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This part is well known as the most beautiful and peaceful residential district of central Prague with a great choice of restaurants, bars and shops in the vicinity. It is away from the crowds of tourists, but close to all the important city sights by foot, also by public transport. A tramway, bus and subway stops are nearby.
Houses in the district of Vinohrady were built as residences between 1900 - 1940, including our house which was built by our family in 1936. After the communists usurped power in 1948, the house became the property of the state until the "Velvet Revolution" in 1989. Shortly after this time, a general reconstruction of the building began and the apartment for tourists were established.
This modern apartment is now furnished in a charming wood motif, and includes a bathroom and WC, a kitchenette with basic cooking utensils provided, together with a refrigerator, cooker, microwave, kettle, coffee maker, pots and pan, bottles and cans openers, tee, coffee, sugar, spice... Satellite TV and computer connected to internet. Wi-Fi available, too.
A secured parking at our house is available, but because of limited spots, recommended to book in advance.
You will find the apartment tidy, ready to use, and clean bedding and towels are provided. Lift in the house. Welcome!
House rulesNon-smoking apartment
Parking: 10 EUR / day.
The stays usually begin and finish at noon.
Depending on vacancies and reservations,
most stays can be arranged for morning check-in and evening check-out with no extra fee. You can also store you luggage as long as you need.
Our house is a quiet and peaceful. It is not a good place for a loud night parties and celebrations.
|Weekly rate for 1 guest
|£ 220
|Monthly rate for 1 guest
|£ 733
|Price for > 1 guests
|£ 4 per guest/night extra
|Maximum Nights
|2 months
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|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
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|On arrangement
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Reviews of this property
Michal is a friendly and helpful host. He answers his e-mail very quickly. The apartment is central located in a nice neighborhood with nice restaurants and bars. The apartment is clean and has everything you need.
It is a nice and clean appartment. City center at walking distance. Shops(also biofood) and restaurants in the neighbourhood.
Michal's apartment is so nice, it's not really big but more than enough for two people. It's close to the oldtown and the neighborhood was really good as well.
Michael's apartment was nice and very clean. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. My flight was delayed and I couldn't chcek in until 1am but that was not a problem, Michael was very helpful and professional.
Was really great room.
There is a good restaurant near that Haus, which He recommended us.
We had a nice time in Prag
Really good room and Michal is kind.
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Last weekend, the vehicle that drives America's democracy skidded to a sudden stop. There was no other option. A roadblock was stretched across all lanes of democracy's information highway.
It blocked the far right lane, the center lane and the far left lane. Which is to say, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
Virtually no news about Washington or the rest of the world was getting through to us on our all-news cable networks — except an unrelenting gush of non-news (see also: punditry and prattle) about a murder trial in Sanford, Fla. Never mind that there was really no news to report because the jury was deliberating behind closed doors.
For a day and a half until the verdict was announced Saturday night, all-news cable outlets gave us best guesses from experts about the legal issues of the case, with a special focus on the racial concerns about the case. Especially everyone's inexpert predictions about whether a verdict of not guilty would lead to outbreaks of violence throughout America.
All that because this case involved a man, George Zimmerman, who is white (actually part Hispanic), who carried a concealed gun that he used to fatally shoot a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, who was carrying only a bag of fruity tea and candy from the 7-Eleven, as he walked to his father's home at night.
Even after the jury's not-guilty verdict was announced late Saturday night, all the all-news networks continued their fixation on all the racial angles of the Zimmerman case.
We saw a recurrence of a fundamental fact of news coverage that I have often written about. Namely: Too often, my colleagues in the news media cannot help but fan the flames when they cover the fires.
The media's big eye can magnify the importance of what it is focusing upon just by keeping it as the center of its coverage. In covering the Zimmerman trial, choices made by cable news deciders of all networks were clearly driven by their company's quest for market ratings. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and HLN (a spinoff of CNN) carried virtual gavel-to-gavel coverage. And even when the jury was deliberating and there was no Zimmerman case news to cover, no cable news network was willing to shift its focus to important events that happened in Washington and the world. Because no cable news decider was willing to lose Zimmerman-obsessed viewers to another all-news network.
The result: Some important events got scant coverage — or went uncovered. Indeed, during the past week and weekend, a number of major events got uncharacteristically short shrift because of cable news' unrelenting outbreak of Zimmermania.
Among them: A Syrian rebel leader was reportedly killed by al-Qaida gunmen; new pro-Islamist protests erupted in Egypt; NSA leaker Edward Snowden sought asylum in Russia; House Republicans reversed four decades of policy by removing food stamps from the House farm bill; and Obamacare's health insurance mandate was postponed for employers, but not individuals. This is no way to keep our democracy's electorate informed. So, once again, we must rethink the lessons we have just learned.
And we must hope that in the world of all-news cable networks, there are news deciders who are concerned enough to rethink and relearn the lessons that should govern our journalistic decisions.
But we cannot overlook the fact there was an element of unabashedly good news. It occurred in the form of what didn't happen immediately after Zimmerman was acquitted.
Violence didn't happen. Riots didn't happen. Burning and looting didn't happen — not even after the all-news cable network indeed fanned those flames just by virtue of their excessive coverage.
Yes, anger and outrage most certainly did happen. Spontaneous demonstrations and vigils occurred outside the Sanford courthouse and in many big cities. Thousands of protesters paraded through New York City's Times Square, and other unscheduled demonstrations occurred in Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Yet importantly, blacks and many whites paraded and protested side by side in these events. They conveyed their sadness, anger and disgust that the judicial system had freed the adult who killed the unarmed black teenager. But they conveyed all this peacefully.
And so we must honor all who conveyed their understandable outrage persuasively, yet nonviolently.
Even as we demand that cable news deciders respect their viewers' intelligence by refraining from their unjournalistic, ratings-driven practice of putting their own news roadblocks on our democracy's information highway.


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[quote user="bandwgn86"]we win and TAGF is still ****ed..i cant stand this eternal Eli debate.. if i had hair i'd be pulling it out...SERENITY NOW!!![/quote]

If Simms were our QB today, we'd have the same crap.* The law of averages says we must have our extremes.* Trouble is, the most passionate and vociferous on these boards are the very ones at each extreme of this eternally inane debate.* They demand attention from each other and clog our net waves with sludge.

They need their own thread... rules? Any debate or discussion about Eli Manning, #10, must be in that one thread.
[/quote]should just forbid Eli debates all together.. neither side read the others sides posts they just post the same garbage over and over in some freak show dowseedow..[/quote]+3,769,218,932,461[/quote]Morning.. You agree with me? That's odd, normally I get a blast of sarcasm.. Tbh I kinda miss it. Can you throw a insult my way, when you get a chance, so I know everything is a o k in the universe. Thanks luv.


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When I've got my digestive system operating at peak performance, everything else seems to feel better. No bloating, oodles of energy, more motivation equals a rise in productivity, activity and generally getting more out of my days.
Keeping your gut in balance can be tricky. Nutritionist Rene Schliebs says keeping stress levels low and maintaining a diet free of refined sugars should keep things in check.
But when we get sick or take antibiotics our bellies are packed with bagfulls of bad bugs, and the goodies are over-powered. The best way to boost numbers is by eating probiotics, says Schliebs, a medical herbalist and specialist in women's health.
Probiotics - which can be taken as a supplement or eaten in fermented foods like yoghurt and miso soup - establish the flora in the digestive system and make sure everything runs smoothly.
Schliebs believes nearly all of our immunity is based on the health of our gut, so if it's not operating smoothly, you're more prone to illness.
And if the balance gets really out of whack you're opening yourself up to problems like stomach ulcers, bowel problems, bloating and constipation.
However, registered dietitian Amanda Johnson says probiotics need to be taken every single day to get full benefits.
And evidence is still building as to how good they actually are for you, she says.
"If you're feeling good then you probably don't need anything," says Johnson, an expert with 20 years of experience under her belt.
"I don't think there's enough there to say if you have probiotics that you will boost your immune system."
However, they can help people with irritable bowel syndrome and could be worth packing if you're travelling somewhere you're likely to get a funky tummy bug.
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I spent the better part of last night with Steve... glad to have met him for I followed his travelpod (especially South East Asia) religiously as I planned my trip - I think he found it quite flattering that I could recount specific details about his trip - it was good to get the rundown on some other 'issues' that arose during his trip that he didn't mention on his travelpod. I found it refreshing to talk about a whole lot of issues associated with travelling with someone else that has actually done what I'm doing and can fully understand. We instantly hit it off given our adventures. But I must admit that he is definitely more adventurous than I am... he did his entire 1 year RTW trip independently whereas I've succombed to the comforts of organised group tours on some occasions. In talking to him, you could sense the passion and love he has for travel... alongside his aching desire to get away again. Steve, who is currently working in IT in Bath, plans to work for around 8 months to save the money needed to take another year's RTW trip. During one of our pub crawls, I caught up on our Aussie VB beer... I didn't realise it tastes so good until now. Absolute bliss. CAN'T WAIT to catch on our Aussie beer's and wine whilst in WA.
I spent the morning touring the sights... including the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey, Royal Crescents, Botannical Gardens, markets, Puteny Bridge and surrounding streets. Bath is a beautiful town... but funnily, not as beautiful as Yangshuo in China. I'd still highly recommend Bath to visitors to England. So glad I've concentrated on Cambridge, Bath and Brighton on this trip... but still want to see Manchester. Photos are coming.
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GRAYSON COUNTY, Va. - By this time next week just as you finish your Thanksgiving dinner, you'll start seeing this year's Christmas tree crop hitting the market.
The region's Christmas tree farmers are scrambling to get their crop to market. As we found out, this season's early snowfall has put them behind, but they're hard at work shipping trees non-stop.
Tens of thousands of Christmas trees are wrapped and headed on their way for the season's centerpiece. It's been a good year, but getting this years crop to market has been a little difficult high up in the mountains.
"We had 12 to 14 inches of snow here and we were just dead in our tracks. We couldn't move. We just have to burn more midnight oil whenever we get slowed up for whatever reason, the snow, rain," Grayson County Christmas tree farmer Rodney Richardson says.
Richardson cut 10,000d trees from his farm this year and despite weather conditions, there's something else happening this year. "We've got an early season, Thanksgiving is early. Most of the retail outlets are wanting their trees earlier," says Jackie Davis, the Mount Rogers Christmas Tree Grower Association president.
So they began cutting this year's crop in the first weeks of November; despite the setbacks, the crop is looking good. "Trees look really good, and one thing about this cold, snowy weather that just keeps them more fresh. So there's a blessing in that all the snow we had," Richardson said.
And freshness is what it's all about. The trees have a ways to go to get to their markets. "Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Ohio," the farmer adds.
Just like any farmer the cost for getting their crop to those markets keeps rising, but not the price. "Really the price of trees are the same as they've been in the retail outlets for a number of years. They've really not escalated at all. So that's making it tough for the farmer. A lot of the small farmers are having to get out of the business," Davis says.
So nothing is wasted. What's trimmed is used to make wreaths and with a window of opportunity of only six weeks to get the trees to market, there's no time to waste.
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· Urban Gaming Club Approval Request: Puton human vs. zombies, between 30-50 students participate. They want to form aclub since they want to continue this program. Invite schools on campus200-250. May hold a zombie 5k. Trying to do a lot of urban games on campus.Most of the stuff is outside, any time of the year, any time of the day.
o Motionto approve gaming club (Rodney)
§ Senators in favor vs. opposed (13/13)
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· TheLEED office is doing a leadership training this spring 6 sessions. The cabinethas approved a second year live on in the residence halls for retention, andalso added a first year experience, and a 5 day orientation before schoolstarts, one session rather than 4. Post WRAP events on bulletin boards. Secondyear live on will be required for incoming freshman for Fall 2012. They arelowering housing costs to make it more competitive. They have been talkingabout allowing pets in the residence halls.
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· Adam:I put second year live in on Facebook and prospective students said they wouldreconsider.
· Erika:On Tuesday next week MLK celebration at 7pm in Taylor Auditorium, speakercoming.
· Rodney:Students I spoke to about the live in requirement has not been positive.
· Walker:Take the name change survey on the website closes January 20th.
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- · Sarah:I wrote minutes from the last board of trustees meeting, discussed addingsoccer and swimming programs. There are a lot of costs for NCAA skiing butthere are many students involved with the club and the costs are lower.
- · Nick:City Council reapproved to host the pro cycle challenge we are third stage,through Durango, telluride, etc. Internship program took the deadline away andreceived 6 or 7 application. There is now a rolling deadline for the program. CBis struggling with snow, and can make new snow and they will remain open. Morepeople are spending and fewer people are skiing.
- · Haleigh:Office hour sign up sheet. Retreat next Friday the 20th, send anemail, no vans to get to the community school. Friday the 20th toSaturday 5:30PM- 12:00PM.
- · Erika:Minutes updated on webpage
- · Grace:$5,700 in bill money. Academic Peer Advisors are putting on workshops all aboutmajors for undecided students in residence halls.
- · Blake:Mens and womens basketball 6 and 8 here Friday. Hickenlooper is coming to themen's basketball game to honor the cross-country team for winning a nationaltitle.
- · Travis:intramural volleyball, and flag football
- · Hayden:Women's Hockey in South Dakota
- · Elijah:February 7th Mayhem poets combine hiphop and poetry. Springfestworking on getting a headliner and coming up with a list of secondary bands.
- · Noah:Two trips going out
- · Maddie:New sustainability coordinators, Conner and Karen.
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[quote user="bigblue4417"]If you look at the top 17 on that hockey list only 1 team is not in the northeast or Canada. That is LA, one of the biggest cities in the world. Hockey is more popular in the east coast and colder climates. Plus it has a tradition up there. People in the midwest or west coast don't really care about hockey at all I would think unless they have a team in the city.
TV is a whole different story. There are NBA games on all the time. There is never hockey on unless it's on VS and who knows who even gets that channel. They get one national game a week and people barely watch that I bet. People would be much more inclined to watch a BBall game while browsing through the channels than a hockey game.
It is also losing popularity because of how difficult it is to play. Cities don't have rinks set up to play or programs to teach kids. You can't just go out in the front yard and play. You can bounce a ball with a hoop anywhere in the country and in any climate.
Hockey in the Northeast compared to the rest of the country is a HUGE difference. Plus if you have a city with a B'ball team and a hockey team I could almost guarantee the Bball team is going to be more popular than the hockey team most of the time.
well said, on all points, sir.</P>


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This is a nuttier version of a basic brittle recipe. I added macadamia nuts - my favorites - and the brittle turned out tastier than ever. I love making this crisp snack because the results are impressive...and the job goes fast using the microwave. -Cheryl Miller, Fort Collins, Colorado
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A person who exhibits qualities likened to "bossy", but expresses their aggressive and dominating character through suggestions, rather than barking orders.
Miss Abailar sure likes to throw her weight around and sure is bossy, but Mr. Chen prefers to make annoying suggestions that slowly jab into your soul, very suggesty.
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OROVILLE — The City Council has a number of decisions to make tonight with connections to the city's struggle to plug a $1.55 million deficit in next year's general fund budget.
The council will take a look at a tobacco sales ordinance, an amendment to allow cottage food operations in homes, updating a climate action plan and terminating a lease with the Kiwanis Club to accommodate a lease with a solar generation company.
The Kiwanis Club leases the property at 2363 S. Fifth Ave. for $1 a year. It originally leased 1650 Broderick St. in 1960 for a teen center for $1 a year.
Plans for the teen center fell through, and the club leased the building to other nonprofit agencies, according to the agenda report.
In July 2005, the city entered into an agreement with the club to exchange the building on Broderick — to house the Bolt's Antique Tool Museum — for a city building at 2363 S. Fifth Ave.
The Kiwanis now own the building on South Fifth Avenue, but the city still owns the land and wants to lease it to a more economically profitable user.
"As reflected in the general economy, the city is experiencing a time of fiscal difficulties, as local city governments have experienced a severe loss in revenues," according to the agenda report from city staff.
If the city terminates the lease with a 30-day written notice, the Kiwanis club would have the right to relocate the building within 120 days at their own expense, according to the report.
Over the last 18 months, the city has met with SolarGen, a Colorado-based company developing construction-ready sites for solar energy production.
In January 2012, the council directed the city administrator to negotiate a lease with the company, and the final 34-year lease agreement was recorded with Butte County in January 2013.
The solar company has to apply to PG&E for "interconnection" to the power grid, according to the city.
Once PG&E approves, the company can apply for grading and building permits.
The city would get about $1,000 an acre per year for the property or about $18,000.
A public hearing on tobacco shops will give information about a proposed code amendment and allow for public comments.
The Planning Commission has already reviewed the ordinance and passed it on to the council for consideration.
A public hearing also considers amending city code to allow cottage food operations to comply with the California Homemade Food Act.
Another public hearing will consider some amendments to the city code for the height and number of wall signs to help businesses market themselves, according to the agenda report.
The council will start the meeting considering approving 12 items on a consent agenda including a close-out report for the Community Development Block Grants that ended last December with $142,308 going for housing rehab, $138,000 to YMCA and $145,000 to Catalyst.
Council will also consider authorizing a proposal to update fire fees for items such as burn permits, emergency DUI response, false alarms and emergency medical response up to full recovery of costs.
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not to throw a large monkey wrench (how many of you folks are old enough to know what a monkey wrench looks like... raise your hands) into everyone's thinking, I keep recalling an incident from about 20 years ago that keeps coming to mind with the ccd thingee. we (I was working for a commercial concern then) had a fellow set down next to us in east texas who (if memory serves) was a small commercial outfit from south dakota. all during the spring his bees never really took off, matter of fact some dwindled even though they seemed well provisioned. if the owner had seen the same bees, seperated by about 2 weeks, I would think the symptoms would have looked much like ccd (or whatever you might wish to call it this time). it seems he had made some tops out of some form of treated plywodd and the bees were being slowly gassed everytime the wood was exposed to rain or water.
I guess why this come to mind is the odd symptom that the hives affected were not robbed out until the top is removed and the equipment is air out for a couple of days. sounds like some low level 'gas' would almost have to be present to mask the honey smell from all those unprotected hives especially in a commercial hive setting.


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The study reviews the formal and customary laws and practices governing the rights of women to inherit land in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The study includes an analysis of existing laws and customs and their impact on inheritance and land rights in all six countries. It also provides recommendations for how to design interventions that can attempt to improve women's inheritance rights.
The Bangladesh government should take urgent measures to make sure that religious fatwas and traditional dispute resolution methods do not result in extrajudicial punishments, Human Rights Watch said today. The government is yet to act on repeated orders of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, beginning in July 2010, to stop illegal punishments such as whipping, lashing, or public humiliations, said the petitioners who challenged the practice.
Police in Bangladesh broke up angry protesters blocking a main highway in the capital Dhaka, over a new law giving women equal property rights. Dozens were arrested and injured as police used tear gas and batons. Schools, businesses and offices across the country remained closed in a nationwide strike enforced by a group of Islamic parties. Bangladesh has a secular legal system, but in matters relating to inheritance it follows Sharia law. Under Bangladeshi law a woman normally inherits half as much as her brother. But under the new rules, every child would inherit an equal amount.
The High Court has ruled that no women can be forced to wear burqa at work and educational institutions. The bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain also ruled that they cannot be barred from taking to culture and sports. The orders came in the wake of a public interest petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers Mahbub Shafi and A K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday.
Asma was 13 years old and in eighth grade. She was living with her parents and other siblings in a remote village of marsh land in Bangladesh. She had to walk a mile, cross a river and then walk another mile to attend the high school. She was only girl from her village who was attending high school. Most of the girls of her age were dropt out after completing primary education, getting married and giving birth. She had moved away from home to live with her aunt, who was located much closer to the school because she was under constant harassment on her way to school by a man of 27 years who proposed her a marry. As Asma refused his proposal and failed to push her to accept his offer than he sent his family to Asma's family with a marriage proposal. The man was uneducated and a "bad boy." Neither Asma nor her family approved of him. Moreover, Asma's father told the family, "I want my daughter to continue her studies and I'm not going to marry her off now."
Film in eight parts by Hasan Mahmud, Director of Sharia Law, Muslim Canadian Congress, Canada.
High Court Directs Government to Immediately Implement Sexual Harassment Guidelines in all Educational Institutions, and ensure that Women Not Forced to Veil or Cover their Heads. Advocate Salahuddin Dolon v Bangladesh, Writ Petition No. 4495 of 2009. Summary: The High Court today directed the Ministry of Education to take immediate steps to implement the Guidelines on Sexual Harassment declared earlier in BNWLA v Bangladesh, and to ensure that no woman working in any educational institution, public or private is forced to wear a veil or cover her head, and may exercise her personal choice whether or not to do so. The Court also observed that Section 27A of the Government Servants Discipline and Conduct Rules 1979, must be read alongside these Guidelines, to ensure that public officials are held to account for any acts of sexual harassment.
Bangladesh's High Court has ordered authorities in an eastern district to protect and produce in court a 16-year-old girl who was lashed 101 times earlier this month after becoming pregnant as the result of a rape. The girl, who has not been named, received the punishment on the orders of village elders in the Brahmanbaria district who issued a "fatwa," or Islamic ruling, declaring that she be flogged for immoral behavior. The elders pardoned the 20 year-old rapist. The incident occurred five months after the country's highest court issued a ruling ordering authorities to investigate incidents of extra-judicial punishments and take action against those responsible.


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Playboy.com's Exclusive Interview with Meatballs Director: Ivan Reitman
We sat down with famed director/producer Ivan Reitman to talk about Bill Murray's first starring role in Reitman's summer camp comedy film Meatballs, which made its way to Blu-Ray earlier this month
At some point in your life you've probably been obsessed with one of Ivan Reitman's films. It could've been his most notorious movie, Ghostbusters, which starred funny guys Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray. If you've spent some time overseas, it may be the sardonic buddy film Stripes. Or, if you're a bit younger, you probably brought your girlfriend to the film Friends with Benefits last summer, which starred Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. There's no doubt that Reitman's career has been one which aspiring directors hope to achieve. But what you may not know is that his wild ride started at an imaginary camp called Camp North Star 33 years ago with one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, Bill Murray, up in the Great White North.
We sat down with famed director/producer Ivan Reitman to talk about Bill Murray's first starring role in Reitman's summer camp comedy film Meatballs, which made its way to Blu-Ray earlier this month, to talk about his memories on set, his work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood and the indisputable genuine charm you find in all of his films.
Playboy.com: It must be crazy for you to have a movie you made so long ago coming out on Blu-Ray.
Ivan Reitman: I of course hope all of my movies come out on Blu-Ray; I'm actually working on that happening. I'm really happy that Meatballs is coming out again.
Playboy.com: Yeah, it's so much fun! I hadn't seen the movie in so long. I was actually watching a bit of it at work today and it was a little bittersweet to think that the last time I watched Meatballs, I worked at a summer camp and now I was watching it in an office on a laptop.
Reitman: Ah, the world has shifted!
Playboy.com: What are your memories of working on set? I know it must be a haze since you've worked on so many other films, but Meatballs being your first major film, there must be some things that come to mind.
Reitman: Well, it was my second feature as a director; the first one I did was for about $11,000 in Canada, called Cannibal Girls.
Playboy.com: I love that movie.
Reitman: You saw Cannibal Girls? Wow, that's insane. After doing that film, I thought I'd be directing Animal House because I worked on that for two years and put the whole thing together. But, having only directed Cannibal Girls, they felt that they should get someone more experienced, so I ended up producing it even though I had worked on the script for two years and brought John Belushi into the fold. I didn't have the pleasure of directing it, John Landis did, which he did a really good job of. But I knew that I had to get back to directing so that wouldn't ever happen again. I called up some friends, Dan Goldberg and Len Blum, who I had gone to university with and decided to do a summer camp movie. Amazingly, the owner of White Pine Camp said yes to us filming Meatballs during the summer camp season. After everything was done, the big piece of the casting puzzle of course was getting Bill [Murray] to say yes.
Playboy.com: Was that role written for him?
Reitman: Yeah, it was. I had done a show called The National Lampoon Show, which was a variety show before SNL and before SCTV. The Lampoon Show had Bill Murray, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Joe Flaherty and Harold Ramis.
Playboy.com: Wow, okay! So everybody who was anybody was on the show.
Reitman: Yeah, but this is when they were all unknown. A bunch of the cast got hired by Lorne Michaels when he started SNL and Bill, although he was not hired, had done a couple of sketches that first year and was going to be brought in for the second year. I had just finished Animal House and called up Bill, who I of course knew and had his actual phone number [Editor's Note: Bill is notorious for having no agent and only a 1-800 number you can call and pitch your idea to] and told him that I was going to try and do this film up in Canada at a summer camp and promised it would be a lot of fun. He said, "Well, you know…I'd rather just golf and play baseball this summer because I'm going to go work on SNL next year."
Playboy.com: It seems that not much has changed with him.
Reitman: After that, I just kind of kept at him and wouldn't offer it to anyone else. I was cofinancing the film with my Canadian partners and then we were on location at the camp with full crew and all the other cast and literally I didn't find out he was going to do the movie until the day before we started shooting. He showed up on the second day.
Playboy.com: That's incredible. Is it true that the clothes he was wearing in his first take are what he showed up in?
Reitman: I'm not so sure if that's true, but it could very well be. The first thing we shot was when he introduces the viewers to the counselors-in-training. Although he used the structure of the scene that was written, he literally changed every line. And every line that he changed was of course much better than what was written. I remember turning to my partners and writers saying, "Thank god he said yes, I don't think the movie would be very good without him!"
Playboy.com: Is it strange to be the director of a film which many others are based upon or with scenes that are used as tropes?
Reitman: It used to bother me. I wasn't upset about it, but it was annoying. I felt like they were stealing. But now I see it more fully and realize it's a compliment. It's a long tradition in any creative work to borrow from others before. Particularly in the music field as of late, it's all samples from other great songs and artists are creating new work from it. So I think that sort of helped me come to terms with that.
Playboy.com: Fast-forward 33 years since the first release of Meatballs. A lot has changed for you!
Reitman: We just finished doing this wonderful movie called Hitchcock, which stars Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. Hopkins plays Hitchcock and Mirren plays his wife. It's a story of their lives in the year that he made Psycho so there's a lot of the shooting of that film in it. Scarlett Johansson plays the Janet Leigh role in Psycho. We have this extraordinary cast and we're rushing it out because the studio is really high on it and hopes that it will get a lot of attention.
Playboy.com: You've worked with so many big names. Who was the wildest on set: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd or Bill Murray?
Reitman: The person who always historically brought the most energy was Bill. Bill was just this force of nature. But, in all honesty, all three of them are forces of nature.
John Belushi's career was unfortunately so short. I got to work with him both in The Lampoon Show where I saw him onstage and then again on Animal House where he was in great shape and not on drugs whatsoever. He was just this extraordinarily funny and charismatic person. I think he could've been a great dramatic actor. He used to do Marlon Brando on SNL, but what made it so memorable was that lure he had that Brando had which, in my opinion, is incontestably taking the stage or being the center of attention where you can't take your eyes off him no matter who is with him.
As for Dan Aykroyd, he's sort of this mad genius. No one else has come up with the conceptual ideas that he has. I mean he single-handedly invented the Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Coneheads, the wild and crazy Czechoslovakian brothers…These are huge ideas. He's not a wild and crazy guy in real life, but he's a really good guy who's smart and funny and has these brilliant out-there ideas.
Playboy.com: How did you film your earlier movies? I feel the same sense of "normal" as I get when I watch Judd Apatow films, especially in Meatballs and Stripes.
Reitman: I like to think it's because [I'm a] a fabulous director. [Laughs] It's always been my style to play things in a real world. I've always believed that my principles as a director were that the main actors in my films were always the smartest guys in the room, as opposed as the dumbest guys, which is another form of comedy altogether. If you could be as clever as Bill Murray or Harold Ramis, and you were as brave as they are, this is the way you might be able to say something if you were at the top of your game.It's interesting; I see it now after Animal House, Stripes and Meatballs were rereleased.
I think people remember these movies very fondly and they have resonated through these decades and don't really feel dated in the way most movies from 30 or even five years ago feel. I mean the music is, the sense of clothing and style is different, but there's something about the storytelling, comedy and the character interplay that seems to work today as well as before.


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Sony 300mm f/2.8 G SSM II lens review: second update to pro-oriented G-series super-telephoto primeBy Kevin Carter - Monday July 01 2013 Lens Review
In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Sony announced a revised version of their 300mm f/2.8G SSM adding Nano AR coating and full AF compatibility with the firm's flagship full-frame Sony SLT Alpha 99. Read on to see how well this newly updated lens performs on their new top-of-the-range camera.
As the second most expensive and second longest fixed focal length lens in Sony's line-up, the 300mm f/2.8 G SSM II has been updated to include Nano AR coating, enhanced weatherproofing, and an overhaul of the ultrasonic-type (SSM) adding object tracking during video capture with the hybrid AF system of the Sony SLT A99 (including the 102 AF point phase detection system). The $7,498 price seems rather high given the optical design remains unchanged with 3 ED (extra-low dispersion) glass elements out of a total 13 in 12 groups, and the fact that savings must be made from not having image stabilization (it's not required as SLT cameras adopt a stabilized sensor platform).
Sony 300mm F2.8 G II image quality evaluation
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Sony overpriced junk
What a piece of junk. Sony better do better and for less money if they want to beat Nikon and Canon. Sigma is doing it.
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Sorry - I have to doubt the result of this test...
I wrote this text und the list of Sony lenses tested HERE:
from my rather long experience with the predecessor, the still "current" 300/2.8 SSSM, there has to be a mistake in the testing of the new Sony lens - it will not be worse than the old version (or will it?).
And the current 300/2.8 SSM is at least on par with the Zeiss 85/1.4 AF or the 135/1.8 AF which I use, and a lot (and I mean: A LOT!) sharper than the Sony 35/1.4, for example - it is one of or even the best lens(es) in the Sony system. For an impression, just look at Sony´s MTF charts.
Almost everybody in the Sony forums who has access to that lens says the same... - so could there have been a mistake in the testing?
A focus problem or a "faulty" lens, for example?
I would LOVE to see a retest with a second item - Sony company should be interested in putting the result right and proving the 300/2.8 SSM to be the "stellar" lens it is... - the current version is indeed!
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Added by Emilie_DxOMark | July 22 , 2013
Re: Sorry - I have to doubt the result of this test...
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
Sony lenses we analyzed were provided by Sony itself. About your remark on the 35mm f/1.4, analyzer results confirm what you noticed (please check the comparison here Sony 300mm vs 35mm f/1.4).
If you only look at the Sharpness score, the 300mm is far higher rated than the 35mm f/1.4. However the DxOMark score is performed lowlight. In such condition, the larger aperture of the Sony 35mm f/1.4 enables a lower noise on the SLT A99 sensor. That means that you will finally get a similar IQ on both couples: on one side (300mm), you have a sharp image but with an higher level of noise, on the other side, the image is softer but without noise.
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Microsoft reaches for new heights (lows?) of exaggeration
Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's also the most secure OS on the planet
Amazing. I'll have to bring this up at work so that we can get cracking on switching the whole company to vista.
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When colleges don't want to accept credits from another college because they don't believe the other school is good enough, when what they really want, is just your money to take their courses.
I applied to A fancy college after going to a state college and they would only accept 19 of 80 credits due to academic snobbery.
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Picture a geeky character on a TV show. What body type are you seeing? Let's change that.
Kids who spend their spare time reading, playing video games, or tinkering with electronics are not getting the same exercise as kids who are sports fanatics. I have often lamented that my favorite hobbies may be good for my brain, but not so good for my body. Star Trek fandom is not known for powerful physiques.
Exercise is always that extra thing I have to do because moving my body was not part of my regular childhood day. My husband read fantasy novels and played RPGs with his friends, but he was also a star basketball player, and lifted weights for fun (I'm not kidding.) Now as an adult, if he doesn't move his body on a regular basis, he is out of sorts. Exercise is a part of his lifestyle. I want that for my children too.


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Hot Girls Get Away with Shit: Yoga with Jaclyn Swedberg and Anna Berglund

Yoga with Playmates? Yes, please.

From the Sanskrit "union," yoga unites the spiritual, physical and mental aspects of the human existence. Much like Playmate of the Year 2012 Jaclyn Swedberg and Miss January 2011 Anna Berglund unite sexy, charming and gorgeous. So who better to send to the park to convince men to practice yoga…or at least a Hot Girls Get Away with Shit version of yoga?
Jaclyn put her two male volunteers through the ropes: they were game to try the Donkey Punch, the Crying Baby and, of course, the ever-popular Lost Coyote. All completely fictitious, naturally, but that didn't stop one man from insisting Jaclyn was aware of his yoga prowess.
Well, it couldn't be easy to keep one's eyes focused anywhere other than Jaclyn and Anna's ample sports bras; some of the men showed greater strength in their restraint than they did with their workout.
All in all, were these men enlightened? In the vicinity of Jaclyn and Anna, it's impossible not to be.
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Pulaski Technical College students, faculty and staff have reason to celebrate.
Pulaski Tech jumped from number eight to "lucky number seven" on Arkansas Business magazine's list of largest colleges and universities in Arkansas, surpassing Harding University in credit headcount enrollment. Pulaski Tech already ranked largest among the state's two-year colleges and seventh largest among the state's public institutions.
The annual list, published in the Aug. 11 issue, showed Pulaski Tech with an enrollment of 5,348 students in fall 2002--a 7.69 percent increase from the fall 2001 semester. Harding University had an enrollment of 5,276.
Others rounding out the list were (6) Arkansas Tech University, 5,855; (5) University of Arkansas Fort Smith, 6,154; (4) University of Central Arkansas, 8,553; (3) Arkansas State University, 10,435; (2) University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 11,491; and (1) University of Arkansas, 15,995.
Last spring, enrollment at Pulaski Tech reached 5,727. Pulaski Tech is expected to enroll more than 6,100 students this fall.
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What is a Selling Technician? Stated simply, selling technicians are service technicians with permission to sell system replacements. They can make repairs, but they can also run load calculations, assemble on-the-spot proposals, arrange for financing, and close a change out sale.
The Ethics of Allowing Technicians to Sell
Some HVACR contractors think it's unethical or deceptive to allow a technician to sell. And yet, many of these same contractors (or their fathers) sold as technicians when they started their companies. How is that different?
It's not.
Detractors of technician sales also claim that technicians will be so romanced by commissions that they will try to replace repairable equipment. So what? If a tech honestly persuades a consumer to replace when a repair would suffice, that's hardly a sin. Unless the customer is of unsound mind, he or she can always say no. As long as the technician doesn't lie or withhold information, it's the homeowner's choice.
The notion that commissions create corruption is equally inane. You cannot claim commissions are bad if spiffs are okay. You cannot claim commissions are bad for technicians, but okay for salespeople and owners (and every company owner works on commission whether he realizes it or not).