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This paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs:
—George Bernard Shaw
—Erving Goffman
—Pierre Martineau
Information relates to matter-energy by always being dependent "upon it" and fundamentally "of it", and yet at other levels of analysis somehow "
Information occurs throughout the inorganic and organic world; nature not only exhibits emerging orders of complexity but the whole of reality does not occur all on the same level. This means that although energy can be transformed, exchanged, and used but not created or destroyed, information is, depending upon context as well as level of analysis, continually created and destroyed, and it is also negated, distorted, falsified, and misread. Hence, the amount of energy in the cosmos is basically constant; it simply changes form according to various kinds of interaction. In significant contrast, writes Wilden, "the amount and diversity of information in the cosmos has been increasing since the beginning of time (the origin of organization)—more so since the beginning of life (biological organization) and the evolution of increasingly complex organisms, and yet more so since the emergence of human social systems at the beginning of history." ([
To illustrate the range of issues here as well as provide some useful vocabulary for understanding the nature of information, I first outline three different levels of signs (index, icon, symbol).
Three kinds of signs must be outlined, each of which bears a particular orientation, set of relations, and, depending upon context, level of abstraction. As a first cautionary note, although each kind of sign can be considered individually for the purposes of discussion, they represent emerging orders of complexity and a dependent logical hierarchy such that latter levels depend upon earlier levels. Hence, all three remain present (or can be identified) at the symbolic level (e.g., a spoken or written language). And, as a second cautionary note, the present focus on the three
Evolutionarily, I would suggest,
Through a long evolutionary period,
Old Woman or Young Lady.
In this image, two different iconic signs can be seen at a level of abstraction different than the sensory (
Iconic sign-use within communication can be found in the operations of eidos: Organisms map their environments and bring forms of intelligibility that allow for generality and the emergence of meaningful experiences rather than mere fleeting attention to sensory differences immediately present. Low-level concepts, still inextricably installed within the immediate perceptual environment, are examples of iconic signs. Our sensory organs of olfaction, touch, taste, even to some extent hearing and vision, mostly operate indexically by codifying sensory differences into information but perception
Gregory Bateson nicely illustrates the evolutionary progression from the level of indexical signs to the various levels of iconic signs when he at various places suggests that, "The playful nip denotes the bite but does not denote what would be denoted by the bite" (see [
We can playfully illustrate some of the relations to be found between index, icon, and symbol by turning, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, to Hilary Putnam's
Outlining various developments involved in the evolutionary process by which human symbolicity emerged, Wilden writes that "the more complex the organism, and the more extensive its relations with other organisms, the more abstract the information becomes, the more levels it involves, and the less it resembles the matter-energy that bears it." ([
Again underscoring the dependent-hierarchy between index, icon, and symbol, we need to combat the all-too-common tendency to treat language as if it were merely or exclusively a symbolic system, one that represents through "arbitrary" relations. Language, not reducible to the symbolic level, also has an indexical and an iconic underbelly. It is indexical not only because all real, actual speech and language occurs at factual places and times, but also, at a different level of analysis, because many kinds of linguistic indexes, words such as "now", "here", "this", pervade language use (see [
The information employed within human language, then, is multileveled. From a fixed set of elements selected from and combined according to various rules of grammar and syntax (e.g., phonemes, syllables, words, and letters of the alphabet), we can produce an infinity of meaningful propositions and can even signify what is
Before concluding this section, I offer three more sets of examples to clarify and illustrate the dependent and hierarchal nature of the three different levels of signs. I first briefly review these terms by considering publically posted signage, how such terms bear upon criminal activities and detective work, and finally, I briefly address the relevance of the terms for understanding the operations of DNA.
Notice that most traffic signs and publically posted billboards display all three levels of the sign. First, the physical material of the sign as well as where it is actually placed manages it in its indexicality. If it is a traffic sign, it will need to be placed at a distance appropriate for an assumed speed of encounter. If it is to indicate an upcoming off-ramp, it needs to give enough distance or time but not too much. If the sign is for a men's or a women's bathroom, it will need to be placed on the appropriate door, or at least at a non-confusing location. In addition to the logistics of signage size and placement, many publically posted signs display icons or graphic images in addition to carrying written language. The icon might be an arrow, a representation of an upcoming fork in the road or of an off-ramp. If it is a bathroom sign it may bear some likeness to customary male or female clothing. A no-smoking sign might depict a graphic image of a lit cigarette (an icon) with a circle over it and a diagonal line across the circle, a conventionalized sign (a symbol) for "don't". And, obviously, all written language on any signage, as always posted somewhere and always in some kind of font, embodies all three levels.
For a second illustration of the differences and dependent relations between index, icon, and symbol, consider how criminals, detectives, and forensic scientists all play their part in employing the different kinds of signs: After a crime is reported, detectives enter the scene and carefully look for indexes of what happened [
As one final consideration of the different levels of signs, reflect upon the differences between the processes of DNA and all of our talk about it. First, only few segments of DNA are solely devoted to expressing traits and characteristics, while other parts counter against noise by providing redundancy at different levels, others still regulate what other parts and sequences do and when they do them (
The three levels of signs (index, icon, symbol) emerge as increasing orders of complexity, and they form a logical hierarchy such that the latter levels depend in various ways upon former. In addition to these levels of signs, we need to distinguish between and among three different kinds of coding: Analogic, digital, and iconic. Information, said otherwise, regardless of the particular sign-level at issue, can be coded in at least three different ways.
Nature exhibits at least three different levels of signs, and those signs are coded in different ways, though two general forms of coding seem to predominate. This issue is well brought out by Gregory Bateson when, in noting the difference between "number" and "quantity", he suggests that you can have exactly three tomatoes but you never can have exactly three gallons of water [
There is, in fact, a significant and important difference between those coded values (
No two categories, and no two kinds of experience are more fundamental in human life and thought than continuity and discontinuity, the one full, complete, compact, dense, and infinitely divisible, the other partial, intermittent, atomic, discrete, and not divisible beyond the individual parts that make it up. Similarly with information: Analog coding, based on difference, is continuous, digital coding, based on distinction, is discrete; and iconic coding, based on both different and distinction, is both continuous and discrete. Analog differences, related by contiguity, are "more-or-less"; digital distinctions, separated by gaps, are "either/or" (and often "all-or-none"). Time and space as we perceive them are obvious examples of analog information; the alphabet and money are equally obvious examples of digital information. Perceptions consisting of analog differences organized by digital distinctions, as in visual images, distinct sensations, or specific events, are examples of iconic representation ([
One of the general principles to notice is that analog differences operate at lower levels of abstraction but at higher orders of complexity, whereas digital distinctions, as higher-level abstractions, are lower orders of complexity. For example, by turning a stereo volume knob to the right, more volume is produced, and, by turning it to the left, less volume is produced. Although all sound volume levels are contiguous and continuous with neighboring ones, we can recognize meaningful differences along the continuum. Then, from within such continuous adjustment to the sound level in either direction, we can
Other clear examples of analog, digital, and iconic coding can be found in the world of music. First, musical instruments, as iconic devices, make up an orchestra. Now, to the extent that any musician can take a moment of rest within a piece, the instrument has some base level of digital qualities, though these occur at a different level than the following: Piano keys and foot pedals are digital, whereas how long the notes are held is analogic. Guitars have strings as well as frets, making them fairly digital, though the length and volume of any note played remain analogic in character. The strings of the harp and lute are distinct and are separately digitalized by the fingers, though they can be played with varying levels of intensity and length. Violins have distinct strings but are without any frets or digital distinctions in the bow; they are partly so difficult to play and master because they are so predominantly analogic. Regarding woodwinds (clarinets, flutes, oboes, saxophones,
When listening to an instrumental composition played by a live orchestra, we can sense all of the sounds in the auditory field, overlapping, resonating, and intersecting in various ways. We might be able to sense the vibrations of the sound waves, and to feel the emotional contours of the sounds. But without lyrics, such music is unable to signify, unable to propose propositions about aspects of the world. It may be rich in emotional expression, and it may allow for acoustical iconic representation, especially to the extent that one can codify the sensed auditory field by identifying single instruments or orchestra sections. Consider the symbolic musical notation: The notation is generally symbolic in character (and digital as well), though the placement of notes along staff lines, signifying particular notes and keys as well as how long each are to be played, have indexical levels as well as forms of analogic and iconic coding.
Another domain that offers countless illustrations of the differences and relations between analog, digital, and iconic coding is the realm of sports and athletic events. For example, the particular movements and actions that make up any sport are caught within local analogic differences, while the countless gestures and distinguishable movements are iconically coded in perception and then digital statistics are taken ad infinitum. Hence, if we do not speak the language and are completely unfamiliar with a given sport being played, we can only see a flow of analog differences. If we are familiar with the language and with the sport played but are watching on TV with the sound off, we have the analogic codes of movement and posture coded by iconic representation of some moves and the like, but without any of the decontextualizing capacities of digital symbolic coding, including various statistics of the season, the event is highly limited in space and time.
Well beyond the scope of the present essay would be to examine the ways that visual information, once digitalized, makes for increased power, prediction, and control. The ability to make identical prints was crucial for scientific advancements [
Everyday life is so replete with examples of analogic, digital, and iconic information that delimiting their range and scope can be difficult. One helpful way is to briefly reflect upon canine and human interaction, which, roughly summarized, contains a highly limited degree of digital coding and a large amount of analogic coding [
Within our speech, all of the continuous and contiguous values such as volume level, rate, tone, and posture are analogic, while the digital values refer to those that are discrete and, to some degree, decontextualizable (phonemes, morphemes, syllable, words, expressions, gestures,
Wilden identifies a common reflexive principle across these many different examples of the three kinds of coding. He writes,
Three levels of knowledge can also be distinguished: sensing, where analog continuity dominates digital discontinuity; meaning, where analog and digital coding combine in iconic coding; and signification, where digital coding dominates analog coding. Taking up the definition of information as coded variety (or diversity), sensing can be defined as coded information, meaning as coded sensing, and signification as coded meaning ([
One final example may help to clarify and further illustrate. Recently standing in a stalled checkout line at a local grocery store, I was holding a nearly empty basket. The cashier chatted on-and-on with a couple checking out; they exchanged pleasantries, gave animated gestures, and even hugged at the end of the sale. When my turn finally arrived, the cashier looked into my eyes and said, "I'm sorry; I can tell you're in a hurry." I denied her proposition, tried to be polite, and reassured her that, "I'm in no hurry at all" and further added, "It's nice to see old friends enjoy a brief reunion." In this situation, the combination of analogic and iconic coding enabled her, and me, to make a truth claim about the current relation-states of the parties involved. How so? Well, it happened on many fronts in addition to her knowing that, in this particular context, she was dallying and spending extra time with this particular set of customers. In addition to the length of time, there were overly animated gestures, personal topics of talk, bright inclusive smiles, and even a quick hug terminating the exchange. For my own part, in addition to the long line of customers behind me, my body was always in some position, and the movements I made were always contiguous and continuous. Standing in line, I must have had a certain slump, or perhaps it was the way I was holding the basket, or maybe even my slightly muffled sighs, or various moments when, while my eyes were wandering around, I looked longingly—and perhaps for a slightly prolonged duration—toward the door and parking lot. At any rate, the cashier did not see mere variety in motion within the visual field, nor merely sense analogically coded information in posture, nor even perceive meaningful nonverbal displays by iconic coding, she actually saw someone, me, who was in a hurry and she
Once it is agreed that information and noise are not inherently distinct, then it follows that without context, there can be no information—
As trite and hackneyed as it seems, we can re-examine the old philosophical question, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" We might use the above terminology to respond as follows: There would be, admittedly, matter-energy but without an organism to make the distinction between uncoded and coded variety, there would be no sensed sound value (coded sensation), no meaningful experience of the sound being sudden or loud or near (coded perception), and certainly no propositional statements about the veracity of such abstract possibilities (coded meaning).
Richard L. Lanigan, working in resonance with Wilden's provocative, "Context Theory: The new science" ([
"Information", accordingly, refers to
When we select from a stock of linguistic units (e.g., phonemes, letters, words) and then combine our selections with others, we produce data, information that emerges only because those selections were from a limited context of choice: There are only so many phonemes and morphemes, only so many letters to an alphabet, only so many words within a lexicon. The construction of data occurs on the side of the speaker or author by selecting from the stock of possible units and constructing a message while the listener or reader creatively participates in the communication by contextualizing the information, thus creating capta.
Imagine that a tabloid reporter, in a public square full of other people, shouts to a local politician: "Did you check into alcoholics anonymous yet?" or "Have you stopped beating your spouse?" or perhaps, "When will you quit lying to everyone?" Without the ability to stop and reframe and reinterpret, without the capacity to make explicit all the assumptions imbedded within any question or statement, anyone could be railroaded. It almost doesn't make any sense to talk about symbols and signification without
Ideally, we recognize human communication as both information theoretic and communication theoretic, where the former is a subset of the latter. Without choice of context, humans are reduced to non-reflexive information processing systems. Lee Thayer writes, "One problem with the notion of 'information' is, of course, that the system in which it occurs is not decomposable…. The 'same' information, perceived as vital in one system, may be irrelevant in another—or even malignant" ([
One might well argue that part of the distinction between physical systems, biological systems, and cultural systems is more than the degree of constraints which allow forms of freedom: It also has to do with the nature of commands and obedience and the levels of permitted abstraction and decontextualization. At the level of physical systems, the command and the obedience are simultaneous (e.g., gravity or magnetic polarity). Within biological systems, the command gains some distance from obedience, even if ever so slightly and remains "locked in" by indexicality (e.g., DNA chemical instructions or the salivation of Pavlov's dogs). But by the time you get to human culture and symbolicity, one finds commands at one time and their
As we descend the dependent hierarchy from inorganic nature to society and culture, the relationship between matter-energy and information radically changes. The more complex a system is, the more distinctive is the relationship between the two…. In the social and cultural order the relation between matter-energy and information becomes increasingly indirect and arbitrary, nowhere more so than in speech and language, where the matter-energy has no natural relation to what it symbolizes…. It also becomes richer, more complex, more flexible, more ambiguous, and less dependent on close connection: Continents or centuries may separate one sender-receiver from another ([
Perhaps even more important, the level of abstraction in symbolic information becomes increasingly evident in metaphorical expressions such as "ships passing in the night", where the speaker is referring to neither vessels nor the evening. The same goes for ironic statements. We seem not truly at home in language until we can use and appreciate ironic statements, as when we say, "What a great day!" or "Such a fine move!" and mean the exact opposite of what we said [
Thayer's provocative essay, "How Does Information Inform?" from his book
One knows what one is looking for when one shuffles through the sports section of the newspaper looking for yesterday's results. If one wants to know whether or not a particular library has a particular book by a particular author, one can consult that library's card catalog…. But one can also think of information as that which informs imaginative or inventive behavior in an open system—that is, where the response or the behavior that ensues is neither necessary nor specifiable. The person who goes to the library "looking for something interesting to read" would be an example…. In both cases, (closed and open systems), information and action mutually inform each other. In the one case, there needs to be an action that justifies and rationalizes the existence of certain prior and accessible information. In the other, certain information needs to be generated which will justify and rationalize the action…. It is precisely the degree to which the information-decision system is closed that makes it possible to "bureaucratize" that system…. Open systems, being nonrepetitive and historical—creative—have no regular logic that would enable us to routinize them, or reduce them to recipe…. We design and build closed system information-decision systems only by assuming that certain information is given, and that the users are interchangeable. But a person who assumes that he or she is the instrument of his or her own destiny is by definition noninterchangeable. And the information that appears to be given or—self-evident—for those who are interchangeable is likely to be differently interpreted by those who are not ([
If we now, taking Thayer's line of thought as our guide, honestly reflect on the various failings of action within contemporary U.S. culture, we can see that it comes not from any shortage of information but from too many people who, goalless, expect "information" to carry the weight of deciding who they ought to be when they grow up. Seriously, many young people have the informational world as their proverbial oyster. They have quicker, faster access, and, despite the amount of information available, many remain crippled by their inability to commit to goals.
Think for a moment of an artist sculpting a statue out of marble. The marble has little relevant information until the artist has an image, an intended form, of the end result. Even if the desired final outcome changes as the sculpting proceeds, the final statue must be guided all along by an image of an end goal. Without the envisioned goal, portions of the stone cannot disclose themselves as "not part" of the final sculpture. Without the artist's ends, such information is literally not there.
No information can disclose itself as vital to me or to my functioning if I am goalless. For example, what is a decision? When have you made one? How many are you making right now? What information is bearing upon those decisions? How much clearer could it be that those who have no goals nor any real sense of what they want out of life or who they want be or what specifically they want to do, cannot distinguish relevant or vital information even it were all at their finger tips. What would one need to know in order to know that some information is relevant or not? What information do people need in order to keep themselves from doing what they know they ought not do? And, why can people fail to act upon relevant information? Might it be that the "information" most people ought to be acting upon cannot be found "in" the environment independent of their goals and values? Said quite otherwise, perhaps the more information accessed and registered but which is not acted upon (or perhaps cannot be acted upon), the more irrelevance, uncertainty, and disorder that persons allow into their lives. Many forms of human malaise and strife can be successfully managed only by understanding the nature of goals, context, and how they relates to changing informational value (
So much of Thayer's work calls people to recognize their need to contextualize their performances in terms of ideal goals. I close this section with a brief example. Sometimes students will ask a rather trivial question about an upcoming paper, suggesting that they do not yet have enough information in order to proceed (e.g., "Exactly how many pages are required?" or "Does it need to be stapled?" or "What font should it be in?"
The main implication is that information only becomes communication in a particular context, and the particular persons involved are essential elements within that context. Goals contextualize the variety and generate strategic information accordingly; the information is literally imperceptible without those people seeking those goals. This means that goals are not best understood as a function of information so much as information is a function of goals. The most important information about us may not be where we came from but where we currently are heading. Moreover, systems having no self-reflexive capacity to re-contextualize messages and whose basic operating values are not subject to revision or reassessment can at best deal with data or information.
A pernicious literalism starts to infect people when they assume a bioenergenic view, oust form from its indigenous relationship with matter, and think that they will be able to understand all of reality—and even life—as if it occurred on a single-level: A unidirectional flow of deterministic energy-matter ([
Three broad but interrelated factors seem to account for the confusion. First, any information more complex than analogic indexicality (e.g., digital icons, symbols, words,
Second, in addition to the forms of transcendence just mentioned, many forms of iconic information and symbolic information enable an articulate representation of endless oscillations as well as "timeless" paradoxes. That is, information occurs on various levels, and, at the level of icons and symbols, it lends increasing intelligibility to notions of transcendence and perpetual motion. Recall that the second law of thermodynamics clarifies why a perpetual motion machine is impossible, and yet, the kinds of information (iconic and symbolic) that humans deal with introduce visual and verbal paradoxes and oscillations (
Some of the best examples, on the visual plane, include Escher's well-known "Waterfall", which depicts an endless waterfall, an iconic image of a perpetual motion machine (see
Escher's "Waterfall".
Penrose's "Impossible Triangle".
On the verbal level, the best examples are varieties of paradoxical injunctions such as, "
Third, and finally, the highly abstract word "entropy", which is based upon a concept of "probability", challenges any separation of information from context, memory, and goal-seeking. Hence, the scientific study of probability raises critical questions about the nature of order and disorder within open and closed systems. "Entropy", it should be underscored, is not the name of some kind of substance. It is the name for a probability statistic that had been thought applicable only to physical and chemical systems. Part of the problem, though, is that probability, as far as
People can reduce entropy in their world by becoming more knowledgeable and by putting items of concern into adequate context. The degree to which probability and information run together basically means that one cannot trust an overdrawn separation between objective information "out in the world" and the subjective information held "within" the perceiver or receiver. Information helps to reduce entropy when it carries enough redundancy in the message and when the structure of information corresponds in some way to how some material state of affairs is structured (either now here or at some other place and time). There is, though, a somewhat suspicious literalism within some accounts of entropy as mere "missing information" rather than a measure of uncertainty. The difficulty is that, within open systems, the very information that disambiguates one issue can create new forms of uncertainty elsewhere in the system. As Thayer observes, "… we are seemingly convinced that as our information about things increases, our ignorance of those things decreases" ([
In this relatively brief paper, I tried to outline a few key terms for talking about information and communication. My main goal was to address how information and communication relate to matter-energy. An additional goal, perhaps obvious throughout the paper, was to problematize—and hopefully safeguard against—overly simplistic understandings of language, information, communication, and human life more generally. It would seem that far too many people, both inside and outside the academy, believe (or basically act as if) language were nothing but a symbol system, something best understood as wholly arbitrary, with nothing more than convention motivating the relationships between and among relevant elements. On the contrary, more people need to reckon with the multileveled nature of signs and reality. They need to appreciate the different properties implied by different kinds of coding, and they ought to understand the vital role that contexts, goals, and values play in interpretation and interaction, as well as in the generation of information and in communication. And, finally, more people would greatly benefit from trying to comprehend how symbolic communication provides humanity with a genuine taste of transcendence, even if such transcendence—because reality itself is multileveled—never completely disentangles from the world of matter-energy [
I wish to express thanks to the people who have helped greatly in this paper: Robert K. Logan for his original inspiration and invitation, Valerie V. Peterson for her continued support, encouragement and editorial assistance, and finally, Chad Hansen for valuable discussion and guidance in the final stages. I also need to acknowledge and thank Grand Valley State University for the generous sabbatical release that greatly aided in the production of this manuscript.


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A Streetcar Named Desire Announces Casting & Starts Rehearsals
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present Natasha Richardson (Blanche Du Bois) & John C. Reilly (Stanley Kowalski) in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' classic drama A Streetcar Named Desire, with Amy Ryan (Stella Kowalski) & Chris Bauer (Mitch), directed by Edward Hall at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street). A Streetcar Named Desire will begin previews on Saturday, March 26th, 2005 and open officially on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005. This is a limited engagement through July 3rd, 2005.
The cast also includes Wanda L. Houston (Negro Woman), Kristine Nielsen (Eunice Hubbell), Scott Sowers (Steve Hubbell), Will Toale (Young Collector) and Teresa Yenque (Mexican Woman).
The design team for A Streetcar Named Desire includes Robert Brill (sets), William Ivey Long (costumes), Donald Holder (lights) and John Gromada (original music and sound).
Set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans' gritty French Quarter, A Streetcar Named Desire is the dramatic story of Blanche Du Bois, a faded Southern belle driven to madness by her animalistic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
Natasha Richardson returns to the Roundabout Theatre Company having received a 1993 Tony® nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as "Anna Christopherson" in the Tony® Award-winning Anna Christie and a 1998 Tony® for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as "Sally Bowles" in the Tony®-winning revival of Cabaret.
John C. Reilly returns to Broadway after receiving a 2000 Tony® nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in True West. He alternated performing the roles of "Lee" and "Austin" with Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2002, John received a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie Chicago.
Amy Ryan returns to the Roundabout Theatre Company having received a 2000 Tony® nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Uncle Vanya. She also appeared at the Roundabout in Broadway productions of The Women and Three Sisters.
Roundabout Theatre Company has a long association with Tennessee Williams, having staged most recently The Night of the Iguana (1995-1996), Summer and Smoke (1995-1996 and 1975-1976) and The Glass Menagerie (1994-1995).
The Broadway premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire was at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 3, 1947. The cast included Marlon Brando as "Stanley Kowalski" and Jessica Tandy as "Blanche Du Bois" (1948 Tony Award, Best Actress). This Roundabout Theatre Company production will be the fifth Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. The most recent revival opened on April 12, 1992 starring Alec Baldwin as "Stanley Kowalski" and Jessica Lange as "Blanche Du Bois". A Streetcar Named Desire won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Tennessee Williams (Playwright). Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second child of Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Dakin Williams, who also had a daughter older then Tennessee and a son younger than him. The family lived for a few years in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and moved to St. Louis in 1918. Tennessee first started writing at 16, when he won third prize for his essay "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" In 1929 he entered the University of Missouri. University life was not for Tennessee, and in 1931 he began to work for a St. Louis shoe company. He also took work as a waiter, elevator operator, and theatre usher to support himself. All this time he continued to write. In 1937 Tennesse's first play, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay was produced in Memphis, Tennessee. The production was a great experience for him, and led him to have two of his plays, Candles to the Sun and The Fugitive Kind, produced by Mummers of St. Louis in 1937. Williams enrolled briefly in Washington University, and finally entered the University of Iowa graduating in 1938. It was there that he earned his college nickname, Tennessee. Williams got his first taste of fame when he won The Group Theatre prize fir American Blues, and received a Rockefeller grant in 1939. Near the end of World War II, what many consider to be his finest play, The Glass Menagerie, ran successfully in Chicago and moved to Broadway a year later. At age 34, Williams won the Drama Critics' Circle award for best play of the year. Over the next eight years Williams wrote four more plays for Broadway. His reputation was even more firmly planted when he won the Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948. For the next thirty years Williams divided his time between New Orleans and New York, while many of his plays were made into films. He earned a second Pulitzer in 1955 for his play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Williams died on February 24, 1983 at the Hotel Elysee in New York City. He will always be remembered as a man who helped the South find its voice.
Edward Hall (Director). Theatre includes: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (National Theatre), Calico (Duke of York's), Edmond (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy Theatre, Watermill Theatre, UK Tour - TMA Award for Best Touring Production), The Hinge of the World (Guildford), Macbeth (Albery Theatre), Rose Rage adapted with Roger Warren from Henry VI parts I, II and III (Haymarket Theatre, Watermill Theatre, UK/International Tour and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre - Olivier Award Nomination for Best Director and TMA Award for Best Touring Production), The Constant Wife (Apollo), Putting It Together (Chichester), Julius Caesar (RSC), Tantalus (Denver Centre and UK Tour), Henry V (RSC - The South Bank Show Award for Theatre for "The Histories"), Twelfth Night (Watermill - Winner of the TMA/Barclays Theatre Best Director Award), Sacred Heart (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), Celaine (Hampstead Theatre), The Two Gentleman of Verona (RSC), The Comedy of Errors and Henry V (Watermill, Pleasance Theatre London, RSC, The Other Place, Stratford and International Tour), That Good Night (Yvonne Arnaud Tour), Othello (Watermill and the Tokyo Globe), Richard III (Tokyo Globe), Cain (Minerva Studio, Chichester), Bare Knuckle Selling (Edinburgh Festival). His production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which played in London at the Comedy Theatre in 2003, went on to play at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in New York in early 2004, where both he and the production were nominated for Drama Desk Awards. His production of Rose Rage which he directed for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2003, transferred to the Duke's Theatre in New York in September 2004. It recently won four Jeff Awards including Best Play, Best Director and Best Ensemble Cast. Television includes: "Safari Strife" (Cutting Edge, Channel 4) and "Richard III" (NHK in Japan). His radio productions include "Dear Exile", "Eveline", "Into Exile" (all for Radio 4).
Natasha Richardson (Blanche Du Bois) trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Natasha Richardson started her career at Leeds Playhouse. She has performed extensively on stage in roles including "Helena" in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, and "Ophelia" in Hamlet at the Young Vic. In 1986, she was voted the London Drama Critics' Most Promising Newcomer for her performance as "Nina" in The Seagull, with Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce. In 1987, she played "Tracey Lord" in Richard Eyre's musical High Society. Playing the title role of Anna Christie she was voted London Drama Critics Poll Best Actress in 1992 at the Young Vic; then in 1993 on Broadway at the Roundabout, where she was nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk for Best Actress in a Play, and won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Debut of an Actress. For her performance as Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes' and Rob Marshall's production of Cabaret, she won the 1998 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk Awards for Best Actress in a Musical. Then played "Anna" on Broadway in Patrick Marber's Tony nominated play Closer in 1999 and most recently played "Ellida" in Trevor Nunn's production of 'Lady from the Sea' at The Almeida 2003. Some of her television credits include Ibsen's Ghosts for the BBC, also starring Judi Dench, Michael Gambon and Kenneth Branagh; the HBO miniseries, Hostages with Colin Firth; the BBC film Suddenly Last Summer, based on the play by Tennessee Williams directed by Richard Eyre co-starrring Maggie Smith. In 1993, she was Cable Ace Award Nominated for her portrayal of "Zelda Fitzgerald" in the TNT movie Zelda directed by Pat O'Connor and co-starring Timothy Hutton. In 2001, she starred as "Ruth Gruber" in the CBS mini-series "Haven" based on Ms Gruber's book. In 1987, she made her feature film debut in the role of "Mary Shelley" in Ken Russell's Gothic. Her performance caught the attention of director Paul Schrader who cast her in her highly acclaimed title role in Patty Hearst. Since then, Ms. Richardson has achieved notable success in such films as Pat O'Connor's A Month In The Country, and Roland Joffe's Fat Man And Little Boy. She then went on to win The London Evening Standard Award for Best Actress of 1990 for her performance in Volker Schlondorf's The Handmaid's Tale and Paul Schrader's The Comfort Of Strangers. In 1994, she received the Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival for her lead role in Widow's Peak, co-starring Mia Farrow and Joan Plowright. She co-starred with Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson in Nell, in 1995. And then in 1998 starred in Disney's The Parent Trap opposite Dennis Quaid. Her recent films include Blowdry in 2001, and Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls in 2002, Wakin' up in Reno with Billy Bob Thornton in 2002,and Maid in Manhattan in 2003. She just completed Asylum based on the Patrick McGrath novel, directed by David Mackenzie to be released in 2004. Natasha has worked for numerous AIDS organizations in the UK and US including Aids Crisis Trust, National Aids Trust, Mothers' Voices, and Gods Love We Deliver. She has spearheaded and organized many campaigns and fund raisers for "The American Foundation For Aids Research", most notably "Unforgettable: Fashion of the Oscars", the auction of Oscar dresses which raised over 1.5 million dollars. In 2000, she was honored with AmFar's prestigious Award of Courage for her work in the fight against AIDS.<


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> I put a definition of DNA terms up on my Web site at:=20
Thanks, Ann. That is really impressive.
Getting the lingo straight is a good start at getting the picture.
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Hello everyone!
My name is Nicholas R and I am a gaming addict.
I'm seemingly the first in my family to have a gaming problem.
I also did drugs and drank to excess.
So, I'm an addict all the way around.
I attend AA meetings in my home town of Houston regularly. These help keep me sober, connected, and on-track to what really matters in life, which is living in God's will of helping others.
I use the word "God" to signify a Higher Power. My idea of this Higher Power is pretty inclusive, but I don't feel like sharing what it means to me.
I'm diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. I am on medication for those.
I'm going to school for computer programming and in my free time I like to play piano and produce music, among other things.
The Mumble meetings I went to a few months ago really helped solidify the fact that I was a gaming addict. I'm so grateful that they exist and that they're attended so that I can relate to the people in them.
That's all! Thanks for reading! Peace
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Hello Nicholas. I'm glad that you're here. My other addictions are not substance related, but you aren't at all alone here in having more than just a gaming addiction. It's good that you've been to some meetings...I suggest also looking into getting a sponsor and working the steps in this program as well. All of the things that you've found necessary to do in order to stay sober from your other addictions will probably be required to stay sober from this one, and maybe some other things that you've not done in the past as well. Regardless, you're welcome here, and thanks for posting.
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Glad you're here Nicholas. Hope to keep seeing you in the meetings. They're a great help in many ways. I've definitely found it true that together we can do what we cannot do alone.
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Oil Price Manipulation, Gas Prices and the Free Market
Gasoline prices at the pump have never been proven to be a direct consequence of oil price manipulation. But it's widely conjectured.
Believe me, I hate paying more just as much as the next person, but get over it.
Geopolitical tensions, supply constrictions, war, tyrants with spigots and other buyers are the real factors at work and they always have been. When risks go up, so do prices – that's the way free markets work.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)didn't produce nearly 115 million iPhones and iPads in 2011 for kicks. They did it because there's huge demand for their products and they can make big bucks.
Things are just more critical now because we've failed to develop a comprehensive energy policy over the past 50 years at a time when global demand is increasing rapidly in absolute terms.
The president wants votes in an election year; this is pure political pandering.
For example, China's per capital oil consumption has increased by 350% since the early 1980s.
The International Energy Agency estimates that China alone will account for 42% of global oil demand by 2015. And they're one of the slow growers with consumption rising a mere 100% in the last ten years.
Other countries like Malaysia have seen per capita usage quadruple since the 1960s. Brazil and Thailand have seen oil demand double to 5.7 barrels/year and 4.8 barrels/year per capita.
And don't forget the weak dollar. Because oil is generally priced in dollars, Bernanke's weak zero interest rate policies are helping drive prices higher. Producers have to compensate with higher prices to make up the reduction in margin being forced upon them by greenbacks that have diminished purchasing power.
Speaking of which, the Beltway Boys, in their infinite wisdom have got it in their heads that margined trading – meaning you can borrow money to control more of the underlying asset – gives too much power to financial investors aka the speculators.
What they don't realize is that:
- Even if you tighten up margin requirements, traders will shift to derivatives like options, swaps and other so-called exotics.
- Higher margin requirements lead to less liquidity which, in turn, actually exacerbates the speculative volatility they're trying to control.
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Science-oriented students headed to electro-optics camp
SOUTH BUFFALO — While the other kids are paddling canoes and toasting marshmallows around a campfire this summer, some future scientists and engineers could be listening by videoconferencing to personnel at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., talking about optical imaging.
They also might be making their own holograms or building robots.
Those technology-minded campers will have their adventures during electro-optics summer camp at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Northpointe Campus, where they will be learning about things such as wave optics, electronics, fiber optics, holography, infrared imaging, lasers and nanotechnology.
Eddie Schindler, a freshman student in IUP Northpointe's electro-optics program, got to build an infrared remote and sensor device at last summer's camp.
"You point it at the sensor and whenever you push the button, the lights come on," said Schindler. "I still have it. It still works."
Schindler didn't know anything about electro-optics before coming to the camp. He said the camp inspired him to go into that field. His plans are to attend IUP Northpointe for two years and finish with a bachelors degree at IUP's main campus in Indiana.
"I wasn't sure if this was exactly what I wanted to do," Schindler said. "The experience I had at the camp was very beneficial to my decision in coming to IUP. All the way from the guest speakers coming in, to the staff helping us, made the summer camp such a fun time. What I learned at the camp gave me the background to what I am currently learning at IUP."
"I'd recommend coming to summer camp to anyone who enjoys science, doesn't hate math and is a hands-on person," he said.
The five-day summer day camp is scheduled 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 15-19 and June 22-26. Campers can choose from one of the two weeks.
Any students interested in the electro-optics summer camp can contact Kelley Nuttall, outreach and career coordinator for the 2+2+2 workforce leadership program in electro-optics at the South Buffalo campus, by calling 724-294-3300, ext. 24, or e-mail email@example.com . Details of the camp can be viewed at www.iup.edu/northpointe .
The summer camp is free and open to any students entering 10th, 11th or 12th grade this fall.
Breakfast and lunch are provided free each day and a free banquet for students and their parents is held on the last day of camp.
The camp is sponsored by IUP Northpointe and the Penn State Electro-Optics Center in the county's Northpointe Industrial Park in South Buffalo.
It is funded through a grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development.
This will be the fourth year of the camp. It has grown steadily from 18 campers attending the first camp in 2006, 27 in 2007 and 30 in 2008.
Due to the large attendance, two camps are offered this year. The school is expecting 24 campers for each week of camp.
For the first time, robotics will be added and students will have the opportunity to build their own robot.
The campers will experience the state-of-the-art labs at the campus. They'll be guided through hands-on activities related to electro-optics.
They will learn about the emerging high-tech career field of electro-optics, visit local electro-optics application companies such as II-VI, Sabeus, Optical Systems Technology and the Penn State Electro-Optics Center and hear from guest speakers in the field. Police departments also take part in the camp to show electro-optics applications in forensics.
"They come to the camp and are able to make a determination that 'this is fun,'" said camp director Feng Zhou, PhD., professor of physics and electro-optics and electro-optics program coordinator at IUP Northpointe. "We try to make camp in a way that they leave knowing they can do this. The students have a sense of accomplishment and see that the field of electro-optics is accessible to them."
IUP Northpointe officials recently were informed that they will receive an additional year of workforce leadership grant funding to continue to build the electro-optics program. The electro-optics summer camp is an extension of the2+2+2 program.
The 2+2+2 program is designed to take a student from high school into college. Students take two years of classes in electro-optics in high school and earn a certificate and credits which can be used towards a two-year associate degree programs in electro-optics at the IUP Northpointe campus.
After earning an associate degree, students are prepared to enter the workforce in positions in the electro-optics industry or they can transfer to the third level of the 2+2+2 program at IUP's Indiana campus where they can obtain a 4-year degree in applied physics with an electro-optics track.
Nuttall received news of a success story of the 2+2+2 program. She said Matthew Gorr, a graduate of the IUP program with both an associate's degree and bachelor's degree, has been hired by Carnegie Mellon Research and Development to work on a laser tweezer project. He will also get free tuition toward his master's and doctorate degrees, she said.
"I think this is encouraging during these tough economic times," Nuttall said.


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Almost all retailers in Paris can offer you with a "détaxe" form, to apply for a VAT reimburse on the 18.6% sales tax if purchases go beyond a certain level. You have to fill & submit a form in the Douane( French Customs) in the airport upon leaving France. You should get all your invoices stamped at airport customs and return the authenticated pink copies within three months by means of the stamped addressed envelope received at the time of making purchase. You should wait for your refund within about six weeks. Some stores, like Hermes, have their own vat refund form.
In Paris you can also make your shopping at "duty-free" shops, most of which are located around Opéra and Palais Royal. These will sell you products with the tax already deducted, as for instance, particular luxury items like perfume and leather goods. This is only applicable for those residents outside the European Union. To get it you have to produce your passport at the time of purchase.
If you want to get the refund through your credit card, you have to mark the paperwork to have the refund applied to your credit card instead of a check in euros. If you acknowledge cash in any currency other than euros, you will lose money on the conversion rate.
Procedures for getting a vat refund in Paris with duty free shoping :-
There are also others ways to get your VAT refund:-
Paris train stations, unlike airports, do not have a customs office. So if you're leaving the country by train or road you need to use a specialist company like Global Refund or Premier Tax Free to get your tax refund. These organizations also provide online service to provide VAT refund. Many stores in Paris are affiliated with these companies and certify Global Refund receipt before pursuing the refund.
Global Refund, the biggest tax refund service (40 countries, more than 225,000 merchants around the world) provides immediate refunds in dollars at more than 700 locations. They will cash your refund cheque in France or abroad in one of their more than 200 international cash refund offices. It manages VAT-refund paperwork, working with more than 170,000 retailers in 28 countries. (When you fill out refund forms at Harrods in London or Galeries Lafayette in Paris, those are through Global Refund.)
They'll also directly credit your credit card, send you a bank cheque, or directly credit your bank account if you have one in France (you have to supply your IBAN).
Its commission is on a sliding scale -- the less you buy, the more you pay -- and averages about 3%, says Colleen Cowan, Global Refund director of marketing for North America.
Premier Tax Free have 20,000 retailers worldwide with the emphasis on Europe (they're based in Ireland). Note that the tax refund company will take a slice of your refund, which is why in France you'll get just over 12% instead of the full amount.
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New Books
late July
Joe Abercrombie
Daniel Abraham
Booker & Thomas
David Dunwoody
Jennifer Fallon
David Gunn
Stephen Hunt
Stacia Kane
Sandra McDonald
Issui Ogawa
John Ringo
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Ken Shufeldt
Williams & Beale
mid July
Jes Battis
Mark Chadbourn
G.O. Clark
Julie E. Czerneda
S.J. Day
P.N. Elrod
E.E. Knight
Philip Martin
Charles Stross
Michael Swanwick
David Weber
Liz Williams
2009 Directories
1. Novels
2. Other New Books
Baker, Kage :
The Hotel Under the Sand
Yound adult fantasy novel about a girl who's lost at sea and lands on a remote island occupied by a magical hotel.
Bova, Ben :
SF novel, fourth book in the "Voyagers" series following Voyagers (1981), Voyagers II: The Alien Within (1986), and Voyagers III: Star Brothers (1990), about an Earth explorer who makes alien contact and, in this book, returns to Earth.
Carey, Mike :
Dead Men's Boots
Supernatural thriller, sequel to The Devil You Know (2005) and Vicious Circle, about a London exorcist in near-future England.
Cooper, Seamus :
The Mall of Cthulhu
Lovecraftian horror novel set ten years after two college students escape a vampire incursion at a Delaware university, now facing a threat to a local mall.
Evans, Chris :
The Light of Burning Shadows
Fantasy novel, Book Two of the Iron Elves following A Darkness Forged in Fire, about exiled mercenary Konowa Swift Dragon.
Finlay, C. C. :
Traitor to the Crown: The Demon Redcoat
Historical fantasy novel, third in the trilogy following The Patriot Witch and A Spell for the Revolution, about male witch Proctor Brown during the American Revolutionary war.
Gonzales, Tony :
EVE: The Empyrean Age
SF novel based on the MMORPG EVE Online, set 20,000 years in the future and concerning elite spaceship pilots who can download themselves into clone bodies in the event of physical destruction.
Greenberg, Martin H., & Kerrie Hughes, eds. :
Gamer Fantastic
Anthology of 13 original stories about role-playing games and virtual universes.
Jones, Jaida, & Danielle Bennett :
Shadow Magic
Fantasy novel, sequel to Havemercy (2008), about the aftermath of a battle between two countries loosely based on Shogun Japan and Imperial Rome.
Pettersson, Vicki :
City of Souls
Supernatural fantasy novel, fourth in the "Sign of the Zodiac" series about a Las Vegas heiress who fights supernatural evil, following The Scent of Shadows, The Taste of Night, and A Touch of Twilight.
Richardson, Kat :
Urban fantasy novel, fourth in the series following Greywalker (2006), Poltergeist (2007), and Underground (2008), about a Seattle PI Harper Blaine, who wakes up two minutes after being killed, able to move between our world and the other side.
Schroeder, Karl :
The Sunless Countries
Science fiction novel, fourth book set in Virga, a miniature cosmos filled with numerous artificial worlds, following Sun of Suns (2006), Queen of Candesce (2007), and Pirate Sun (2008). (The books share a setting but do not need to be read in sequence.)
Smith, Sherwood :
Treason's Shore
Fantasy novel, fourth in a series following Inda, The Fox, and King's Shield, about a prince turned mercenary.
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. :
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three
Anthology of 28 science fiction and fantasy stories first published in 2008. Authors include Ted Chiang and Elizabeth Bear, with their Hugo Award-winning stories, Peter S. Beagle, Ian McDonald, Sephen King, Kij Johnson, Greg Egan, Michael Swanwick, and Kelly Link. Strahan provides an introduction to the book and introductions to each of the stories.
New SF/F/H books:
early August 2009
posted 12 August 2009
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Cleverness and bravery and absolutely necessary for good adventures.
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When Leal shut off the engine the whole world went away. Sight, sound, and touch fled into darkness, leaving only the sighing of her own breath. The touch of the pilot's seat faded as her weightless body drifted away from it. Leal kept her long fingers on the starter key for a few seconds, as if she might never find it again once she let go.
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It started just like it had in real life: The man belts me in the temple and it feels like my head is caving in. I tumble out of the chair, onto the hardwood floor. In the dream I can see its pattern of dark and light wood making a ribbon around the edge of the room, like a magic circle to contain the terror.
This page lists selected newly published science fiction, fantasy, and horror books seen by Locus Online. (Locus Online does not have access to materials sent to Locus Magazine).
Review copies received will be listed (though reprints and reissues are on other pages), but not galleys or advance reading copies. Selections, some based only on bookstore sightings, are at the discretion of Locus Online.
* = first edition
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Date with publisher info is official publication month; date in parentheses at paragraph end is date seen or received.
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Although I didn't spend as much as last month, this month I still spent a lot of money. I finished paying for my entire international trip pretty much this month, and also went on a long weekend getaway to the wine country area of B.C. (where I proceeded to purchase over $240 worth of wine unfortunately). It was fantastic 35 degree weather, beautiful sun, and relaxing drives. In terms of the lack of net worth increase this month, the flat markets don't really help either, there hadn't been much movement or increase in my investment accounts this month. After this month I am going to make a concerted effort to not spend so much.
My goal for the end of the year was to break a net worth of $350,000, which is means $16400 by the end of the year. If I include my pension contributions, my net worth goal was $380,000, which means $10,000 by the end of the year. Of course I will aim for the former net worth goal but I will use the latter one if push comes to shove 🙂 (since it's easier to achieve).
Okay, so here's the breakdown for August 2014 ($333, 600): -0.02% -$75
- I paid for my big trip this month
- I added up my chequing and savings accounts (High Interest Savings Account). I automatically deduct money from my chequing account and have it siphoned to the HISA account (paying yourself first)
I have $4800 saved up for my big trip that I hope to do this year.
Non-Registered: $105210 (-0.3%)
- This month was pretty "laggy" perhaps it's time to pick up some more!
- These are stocks that capture the "moment in time", including unrealized gains or losses in my BMO Investorline and Questrade accounts.
- This includes the pre-authorized monthly contribution into my TD E-Series account, a GIC in my ING Direct Account and a Questrade RRSP account.
I am seriously thinking about maxing out my TFSA instead, if I am not able to max out on both (read my TFSA vs RRSP great debate over here) from now on, as I will expect to have defined benefit pension when I retire.
- I'm not including my defined benefit pension contributions which is >$35,000
- I paid back the Home Buyers Plan for my down payment in 2013.
- Woot! I made $10 compared to last month!
- My TFSA is maxed out for 2014, I had to move money to another account (long story- stay tuned)
- Check out my dividend income spreadsheet!
- One of my to do tasks is to track my dividend payments in an excel spreadsheet
- Watch out for TFSA over contributions, guys, the CRA will get you for every last penny.
- I signed up for a Tax Free Trading Account with Questrade in 2009 and haven't looked back!
- My plan is to live in this for 1-2 year and then rent it out once I find my prince charming (haha…right?)
- I bought a car (so painful to part with money but am really enjoying the fuel economy and hatchback-ness)
- I will update it annually with the Canadian Black Book price
- I used a conservative estimate of the car, no CBB price for 2014 models yet
Credit Cards: $1960
- I applied for the CIBC Infinite Visa Aeroplan card and in the goal of travel hacking my way to trips and have been using it for a few months.
- The problem with not having Mint.com is that I can't see my credit card spending as easily so I ended up resorting back to the Mint.com account but I only added my credit card (this is helping a bunch so that I can keep track of my spending)
- I've redeemed $450 already this year with my MBNA World Points World mastercard.
- I've used my new Amex Aeroplan card twice so far.
- I pay off my full amount every month (and folks, it's VERY important you do so otherwise you're losing out on a 19% return!) but include it in my net worth update so I have an accurate picture of my actual net worth. I sort of think "If I were to sell everything right now, what would my net worth be?" I guess I shouldn't put it in the liabilities column since i pay it off regularly, BUT in mint.com it's under the liability column so I'll do the same.
Mortgage: $182,240 (-0.3%)
- My intent is to rent it out in a little while (see above). In order to offset future rental income, I chose to acquire a mortgage instead of paying for the majority of the condo.


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Films such as The Inbetweeners Movie have helped Wandsworth Council rake in more than £200,000 in filming fees.
Wandsworth is the third most popular spot in London for film directors and programme makers, according to new research.
Film London says the borough now accounts for nearly ten per cent of all filming work done across the capital.
Among the better known movies shot in Wandsworth last year are Fast Girls, Pusher and The Inbetweeners Movie.
While TV dramas filmed here included Little Crackers, Sherlock 2, Silent Witness, Above Suspicion, Episodes, The Royal Bodyguard and Not Going Out.
Councillor Jonathan Cook, the council's community spokesman, said: "The growing popularity of the borough among film production companies is a definite bonus because all the money we raise this way can be ploughed back into frontline services and can help ease the burden on taxpayers."
The council's coffer's have been swelled after the annual number of filming days increased from 955 in 2009 to 1,267 last year.
This means the borough is now listed just behind Westminster and the City of London, which are because they contain so many historic landmark settings that signify London to the wider world.
For every pound received by the council, it is estimated that another two pounds is generated for the wider economy with local shops and restaurants the main beneficiaries.
This means that filming was worth around £400,000 for businesses last year.


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Environmental lead abatement does a better job of explaining the crime decrease than almost any other variable.
This decrease was statistically significant because the data in that study weren't as variable.
"That variable remains constant," says the senior Obama official.
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But all variable stars need not necessarily be due to the light being intercepted by a dark body.
Marriage has always been an elastic and variable usage, as it now is.
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In the past, we used to focus on social forms of variable organization.
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The August 15 isue of Australia's Sydney Morning Herald had a terrific article about collecting Japanese cars. It appears that no matter which hemisphere you're on, the plight of the long-suffering Japanese car aficionado is same.
We've all experienced the sneers that Ray Ferguson, founder of the Brisbane Classic All Japanese Car Show, did when taking his '65 Prince Skyline to vintage car events dominated by the Big Three. That's what prompted him to start his own damn car show.
And of course, we'd all like to have a garage full of rolling art like Sydney collectors Al Palmer (Century, Corona 1600, '72 Corolla and formerly 2000GT) or Mark Griffin (NSX, R32 Skyline, Series 2 RX-7 and 5 more).
And last but most definitely not least, JNC's very own Kevin San was heavily quoted throughout the piece, tellin' it like it is and schooling greater Sydney's newspaper readers about nostalgics. That's him on the cover standing next to his '86 Luce. Good on ya, Kev!
The article goes on to make some bold predictions about where the scene is headed, and offers up a list of top 10 collectible Japanese cars. We've never been a fan of these types of lists (see the ones from the Chicago Tribune or Forbes), but the rest of this article seems to accurately describe what you JNCers have known all along – that our cars are cool, as worthy of collecting as any European or American car, and about to hit the prime time, baby.


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Brayton, Terry A La Berry Present Anti-Bullying Song, Video
|Terry A La Berry sings with Rosey Dzierga's kindergarten and first-grade after-school class.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Rosey Dzierga's kindergarten and first-grade after-school pupils shared their anti-bullying message through song with Lenox musician Terry "A La Berry" Hall to community members and families on Monday afternoon at Brayton Elementary School.
"They worked really hard... I think they deserve this recognition," Dzierga said.
The Mindfull program focuses on positive thinking and respecting others. Hall visited Dziegra's summer program last year where he sang the song "One People" with the pupils.
That experience went so well that Hall decided to call up Dzierga when his next project, a music video for his song, "Brave to be Kind," came to fruitation. Hall worked with the children to create a video, with them assisting in the chorus.
"These kids are so motivated, it's so much fun," Hall said.
The children walked down the red carpet into the school library. They then sang the two songs and presented the video to the crowd, which featured Mayor Richard Alcombright and Superintendent James Montepare.
Hall's latest album "Bad Kitty," which includes last summer's pupils singing "One People," was on sale.
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Suggested Reading
Barash, Marc Ian, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: a search for the soul of kindness, Rodale, 2005.
Barash, Marc Ian, The Healing Path: a soul approach to illness, Penguin, 1995.
Brennon, Barbara, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, Bantam Books, 1988.
Brennon, Barbara, Light Emerging: the journey of personal healing, Bantam Books, 1993.
Bruyere, Rosalyn L, Wheels of Light: Chakras, Auras, and the Healing Energy of the Body, Fireside, 1994.
Damasio, Antonio, The Feeling of What Happens: body and emotion in the making of consciousness, Harcourt, 2000.
Gerber, Richard, MD, Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies, 2001.
My all time favorite book. This book was first published in 1988. It was way ahead of its time. It gives a comprehensive overview of the scientific underpinnings of energy medicine.
Goleman, Daniel, PhD, and Joel Gurin, Mind/Body Medicine, Consumer Reports Books, 1993.
Judith, Anodea, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, Celestial Arts, 2004.
Ledoux, Joseph, PhD, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1996
Lipton, Bruce, MD, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Bruce Lipton, 2008.
Oz, Mehmet, MD, Healing from the Heart, PLUME, 1999.
Schore, Allan N, MD, PhD, Affect regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, 1994.
Shealy, C Norman, MD, PhD, Sacred Healing: the curing power of energy and spirituality, Element, 1999.
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LottaNZB aims to simplify and automate downloading of binary news from Usenet. You can tell it what to download using NZB files, which are created by many Usenet search engines. It integrates nicely with GNOME desktops, but is not limited to them, and uses the mature SABnzbd software as its foundation.
eSpeak for Android is a port of the eSpeak Text-to-Speech synthesiser to Android, supporting 75 languages and accents. It is based on the eyes-free version, but with improved language selection and language name display, support for accents and special characters, improved handling of speech rate and pitch, support for MIPS-based devices, and improved support for SSML.
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UPLAND - City Manager Robb Quincey has not been given any notice of termination, according to city officials.
Quincey was placed on paid leave of absence by the City Council Tuesday night for unspecified reasons.
"That would have been announced had there been a termination. There is certainly no termination," said City Attorney Bill Curley.
The city's Municipal Code states that the city manager shall not be removed from office within 180 days of an election if a new councilmember is elected.
Gino Filippi was elected to the council on Nov. 2.
"All I'll say about that, that particular code section isn't a matter of application right now," Curley said. "As we said they put on leave part of an evaluation process and that's really all there is to it."
Councilman Ray Musser confirmed there was no notice of termination.
"He's on administrative leave at this point, he's not terminated," Musser said. "He's not actively working, but is being paid, so therefore he's not terminated."
Quincey has been placed on indefinite leave and will continue to receive full pay. He was paid $271,700 in 2009, according to the state controller's website.
City officials would not give the reason for the council's decision to place Quincey on leave.
"We're trying to get to the bottom on everything and we just feel this needs to happen to have time to get things sorted out and get back to having our residents served in the way they should be served," Musser said.
It is unknown when or if Quincey will return to his position, but the goal is to get the situation cleared up, Musser said.
"It's a goal to resolve and get to the bottom of everything - all the unanswered questions at this point," Musser said. "I'm not sure all answers will be in but when we feel we have all the facts positive or negative then we can make a decision to go forward and that could be any direction at this point."
The Daily Bulletin reported in December that Quincey had negotiated a $25,000 settlement of an Upland police sergeant's lawsuit alleging he was passed over for a promotion because he had investigated a domestic incident with Quincey.
The sergeant was promoted to lieutenant as part of the settlement.
Filippi and Musser said they have not seen a copy of the police report or the settlement.
The report was given to the FBI by the police department as part of the ongoing investigation into Upland Mayor John Pomierski.
In June, FBI and IRS agents confiscated records from City Hall and Mayor John Pomierski's home, where his construction business is based. They also took records from J.H. Builders in Upland and Venture West Capital in Rancho Cucamonga.
A search warrant for Pomierski's cell phone sought records as evidence of violations including racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, bribery, mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
Although the documents are part of an investigation, the council is still privy to the information, Curley said.
"I will say the City Council certainly has access to all the documents involving the city affairs, and I don't know what each person may have seen personally, but certainly the council would all have access to it," he said.
Filippi said he has asked Curley to be able to read the report.
"I'm definitely interested in seeing it," he said. "I have many businesses owners and residents (wanting to know) what happened. We shouldn't be unresponsive."
Finance Director Stephen Dunn has taken Quincey's place for the time being. He will continue his role as head of the finance department.
It will be Dunn's second time as interim city manager for the city.
Councilman Brendan Brandt said the city is handling the situation as a personnel matter.
"In the interim the city is going to continue to move forward to operate and the fine employees of the city of Upland will continue to service residents and make sure all essential city services are provided," he said.
At Tuesday night's meeting, the council also discussed its contract with Curley and his law firm. The council held an evaluation performance during the closed session portion of the meeting but took no action.
Officials have expressed concerns over the amount of the city's legal fees.
Filippi said he is satisfied with Curley's performance and the law firm.
"During the campaign I made it very clear that any opportunity to settle lawsuits is to the advantage of both parties, and secondly, if the city of Upland was not involved in so many lawsuits of course the expenses would not be so high," Filippi said.
"So that's the status of and the reality of being in litigation and it's unfortunate and it's not a situation that people want to find themselves in."


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In the February 2015 survey we received responses from 883,419,935 sites and 5,135,229 web-facing computers.
Microsoft showed the largest growth in terms of hostnames, with an additional 12 million sites taking its total up to 253 million. This has increased Microsoft's market share to 28.7%, but Apache continues to lead with a 38.8% share, despite a loss of 5.9 million sites.
Web-facing computer growth was fairly even across the board, with the top three server vendors all showing similar gains. nginx made the largest gain of just under 22,000 computers, while Microsoft and Apache each gained just over 20,000. This has resulted in nginx's market share growing slightly to 11.3%, but Apache maintains its comfortable lead with a 47.2% share, while Microsoft's stays at 29.9%.
Despite its impending lack of support, the number of hostnames using Microsoft IIS 6.0 grew by more than 5% this month; however, the number of web-facing computers using this platform fell by 2%. This version of IIS was released more than 10 years ago, alongside Windows Server 2003, both of which will reach the end of their Extended Support periods in July.
Several of the new generic top-level domains continue to show surprising growth. The number of sites using the .xyz TLD nearly doubled this month, and now totals more than 10 million. Strong growth was also seen by the .red TLD, which grew by nearly 3,000% to reach a total of 850,000. Other new colour-based gTLDs to have appeared in Netcraft's survey recently include .blue, .pink and .black; these are all run by Afilias, which also acts as the domain registry for other well-established TLDs such as .info, .mobi.
The .paris geographic TLD has shown a promising start by already reaching a total of 13,000 sites, outpacing growth seen by other new GeoTLDs which reached general availability around the same time. The .paris GeoTLD became available to all on 2 December 2014 and proclaims itself to be the most affordable address in Paris. The most visited .paris website is currently www.toureiffel.paris, which is where visitors will end up if they attempt to visit the Eiffel Tower's previous website at www.tour-eiffel.fr.
In January, Google added support for the Google Domains beta directly into Blogger, making it easier for users to purchase custom domain names for their blogs. Google has been an ICANN accredited domain registrar since 2005, allowing it to sell domain names under the most popular top-level domains such as .com, .net and .org, but it is also in the process of making a much larger range of new gTLDs available to the public under its role as a registry.
Google Registry is operated by Charleston Road Registry Inc, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. So far, it has launched three new TLDs: .みんな (which means "everyone" in Japanese), .soy (Spanish for "I am"), and most recently, .how. Google's other successful applications for gTLDs include .zip, .eat, .foo, .meme, and .new, but these are not yet available to register.
Google applied for more than 100 new gTLDs in total, costing it over $18M in ICANN application fees. Some of these applications were subsequently withdrawn, such as that for .and, which was not allowed as it corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Andorra. Many of the gTLDs that Google applied for also had other applicants competing for ownership, including Amazon in 21 cases.
Google and Amazon were the only applicants for the .dev gTLD, but Amazon withdrew its application after an assumed private deal or auction. Despite .dev being used by private domain names in some corporate development environments, the risk of name collisions was evidently deemed to be low enough to allow Google's application to succeed.
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For the third quarter ended May 31, Walgreen Co. announced that GAAP earnings were $624 million, or 65 cents per diluted share, versus $537 million, or 62 cents per diluted share, in the period a year ago. Adjusted earnings were $812 million, or 85 cents per diluted share, versus $628 million, or 72 cents per diluted share, in the year-earlier quarter.
A Zacks Consensus Estimate for adjusted diluted earnings per share was 90 cents.
Third quarter front-end comparable store sales including general merchandise such as home goods increased 0.4% as customer traffic decreased 3.9% versus the year-earlier period and basket size increased 4.4%. Third quarter total sales increased 3.2% to $18.3 billion compared to the prior-year quarter.
Walgreens CEO Greg Wasson, in a conference call, said weather and a soft economy had hurt front-end sales, but acknowledged that the retailer needed to do more to support that element of the business. In a conference call, he alluded to three initiatives to bolster general merchandise and other non-prescription revenues. First, he said, the company is making ongoing adjustments to its pricing and promotions. The company also is applying data gleaned from its Balanced Rewards loyalty program while maximizing the initiative's value by placing more emphasis on redemption and rewards. And, finally, Wasson noted, Walgreens is enhancing store segmentation to meet local needs and preferences with assortments and circular content that better addresses community inclinations.
Prescription revenue, which accounted for 63.1% of sales in the quarter, increased 3.4%. Prescription sales in comparable stores gained 2%.
"This quarter we continued to see a strengthening in our pharmacy performance as we maintained strong margins and increased our retail pharmacy market share from 18.4% to 19.2% year over year," said Wasson. "This, in combination with our focus on cost control, and the contribution from Alliance Boots and related synergies, resulted in adjusted earnings per diluted share growth of 18.1% in the quarter. We also produced another strong quarter of operating cash flow of $1.4 billion. That said, our front-end sales are still not up to our expectations, and while the economy remains challenging, increasing customer traffic and front-end sales are our near-term priorities with a focus on pricing and promotion, and the leveraging of our Balance Rewards program, which now has 75 million members."


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