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Receive and file this report and the timeline of events compiled by Councilman Gardiner that is attached.
Councilman Gardiner has provided a summary of Channel 33 events and related PVNet facilities use and portable building agreement to further amplify the various relationships between PVNet and Channel 33. That summary is attached to this report by the City Manager.
At their meeting of September 5, 2006, the City Council approved a budget adjustment of $15,150, primarily to fund annual utilities and maintenance costs for the PV on the Net modular building, as required by an agreement approved by the City Council on June 20, 2006. In addition, the Council (on September 5, 2006) was asked to approve a one-time charge of $26,800 for upgrades of electrical and utility services, primarily to accommodate the PV on the Net modular building. The City Council directed staff to report on how the cost of these services had escalated from the figure of $5,000 that was estimated in the June 20, 2006 staff report.
On May 6, 2003 the City Council approved an agreement with PV on the Net for the Lease of the Cable Television studio. A copy of the May 6, 2003 staff report (with Agreement) is attached. At that time it was staff's understanding that without the offer from PV on the Net to equip and operate the studio, the City Council may not have been able to fund this project. The term of the studio lease was for a period of five years, but could be terminated by either PV on the Net, or the City upon 90 days notice. After receiving notice of termination PV on the Net would have180 days to remove equipment and vacate the premises.
On November 15, 2005 the City Council conceptually approved the addition of a 320 square foot PVAN building and a 960 square foot PV on the Net building to be constructed adjacent to one another near the cable studio. The cost of extending electrical utilities to the two buildings was to be shared equally by the City and PV on the Net and was estimated at about $3,500 apiece.
At the Cable TV Committee meeting of February 3, 2006 TV Manager Holt reported that she had met with SCROC representatives who expressed an interest in using the City Cable TV studio as a classroom for formal training of students. She asked if there was a scenario under which PV on the Net would allow this use of the studio. It was agreed that Ted Vegvari and Gabriella Holt would meet with the SCROC superintendent to try to work out a SCROC/PVNet/City/PVHS partnership for use of the studio.
Unfortunately, after several months of trying to work out this partnership, it was agreed that it would be best for all if PV on the Net would give up the remaining two years of their lease and vacate the studio by September 1, 2006. The City Manager accepted the task of attempting to work out such an arrangement. There were three goals that the City Manager felt he was tasked with:
Discussions with Ted Vegvari on a equitable exit strategy revealed that he would be willing to give up the remaining two-years of PV on the Net's studio lease, as well as donate lights, cameras and other studio equipment if the City would be willing to provide PV on the Net a site for a modular building, and maintain it as if the City owned it, for a minimum period of three years. The terms offered by Mr. Vegvari were discussed by the Cable TV Committee and (the City Manager felt) were acceptable to the Committee.
The Cable TV Committee, at their meeting of June 9, 2006, received a draft of the proposed lease agreement. There are no minutes of that meeting and the City Manager does not recall any discussion of the agreement other than a generally expressed appreciation that PV on the Net would be out of the studio in time to accommodate the SCROC classes scheduled to begin in early September. It was pointed out to the City Manager that it was urgent that both PV on the Net and SCROC have a commitment on the part of the City in order to plan their respective programs.
On June 20, 2006 the PV on the Net Lease Agreement, recommended (as understood by the City Manager) by the Cable TV Committee, was entered into between the City and PV on the Net. The new Lease Agreement stated that in exchange for the remaining two-year Cable TV Studio lease and the donation of cameras and lighting that were currently installed in the studio, the City would agree to:
The staff report (with Agreement) of June 20, 2006 is attached. Although Exhibit A to the Agreement described the location and size of the new PV on the Net modular building, there was no discussion of the size of the building in the staff report. In order to get the agreement before the City Council as soon as possible, no new maintenance and utility cost estimates were prepared. The staff report stated that the annual fiscal impact to the City of the lease agreement would be $5,000. This figure was an estimate of the cost of building maintenance, including custodial service. The cost of extending utilities to the PV on the Net building that was formerly (under the November 15, 2005 conceptual agreement) to be borne by PV on the Net, but would now be a cost to the City, was overlooked. No allowance for the annual cost of utilities was included as the City Manager felt that energy costs could be absorbed in the $110,000 already budgeted for electricity for all City buildings.
As the City Council is aware, the building actually approved on June 20, 2006 was 1440 square feet. When the Public Works Department generated new estimates for the custodial service for the building, the cost rose to $6,500 annually. The annual cost of energy (primarily for air conditioning) is now estimated at $8,500, although it appears that the size and energy demand of the air conditioners for the 1440 square foot building and the 960 square foot building are identical. The total annual maintenance budget for the 1440 square foot building was re-estimated in August at $10,000 and the utilities/telephone/alarm system budget (previously thought to be negligible) was added into the budget at $10,150.
The Council asked "why were the costs more than those estimated in the June 20, 2006 Staff Report and how can we address issues like this in the future?"
The answer to the first part of the question….why were the costs more…?
The answer to the second part of the question…how can we avoid issues like this in the future…?
Respectfully submitted
Les Evans
City Manager
Attachments: Timeline of Events provided by Councilman Gardiner
City Council Staff Report - May 6, 2003
City Council Staff Report - November 15, 2005
City Council Staff Report - June 20, 2006
City Council Staff Report - September 5, 2006
Summary of Channel 33 Timeline of Events
PVNet Delivery on "Quid pro Quo" items
Summary of Benefit to PVNet of New Lease From City
Total market value to PVNET for forgiven obligations = $44,800
Equipment donated to RPV TV studio by PVNET estimated at $35,000.
Amount new PVNet portable reported in staff report to cost city: negligible
Amount revised expenses for PVNet portable in FY 2006/07: $41,000
Note: No agreement was executed between the City ad hoc cable committee and PVNET. The cable committee only recommended terms and conditions to City staff for approval by City Council. The Cable TV Committee cannot enter into agreements on behalf of the City Council as they are ADVISORY only, can only make recommendations, but it is the City Council who are the decision makers and enter into binding agreements. Moreover, once the issue of vacating the studio was resolved, the cable committee decided the details of the proposed lease between the City and PVNet were not in the prevue of the Cable Committee and the matter was no longer discussed by the cable committee.
Note: When the Director of PVNET was directly asked by the Mayor at the June 9, 2006 Cable Committee Meeting the following question: "What costs will be borne by the City for the terms specified in the Portable Modular lease?" the reply from PVNET was "None".
Note: The following productions have been completed as of date PVNET relinquished use of the Studio and was forgiven past and prior obligations to the City for production services:


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The fine folks at the PBSoffbook YouTube channel have posted their latest docu-video, interviewing three experts on the rise and future of 3D printing.
Described by one person in the video as the "late early adopter" phase, that means we'll be seeing more mainstream adoption of 3D printers and services that can reach more consumers. A recent episode of "The Big Bang Theory" had two characters building personalized action figures from a 3D printer, so we're getting very very close to mainstream knowledge, at least.
If you've been interested in learning more about 3D printing, get a great head start on your neighbor by watching this video:
The biggest question for me will be how inexpensive they can start making the printers for in-home use, as well as making it easier for people to create their own objects for printing.
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By LTC Christopher KlemDecember 20, 2007
A team of seven medical personnel from Tripler Army Medical Center recently teamed with army physicians from Bangladesh to treat impoverished civilians at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Bogra, a Bangladeshi Army hospital.
The "Sight, Sound, and Smile" mission name is derived from the three types of disease addressed by the surgical team: cataracts, chronic ear disease and cleft lip and palate.
The deploying team consisted of two ear, nose, and throat (ENT) staff surgeons, one ENT chief resident, one ophthalmologist, one noncommissioned officer-in-charge, and two surgical technicians.
Forty-four patients had life-changing surgery during the four-day mission.
"It was really incredible to see how much of a difference we made," said MAJ Ben Cable, an ENT surgeon who performed cleft lip and palate surgery on 12 patients, and was the mission's team leader.
"Bangladeshi children born with a cleft lip deformity are frequently ostracized and often unable to lead a normal life," Cable said. In developed countries, cleft lips are typically repaired when a child is three months old, while the average age of the cleft lip patient on the mission was five years.
Diseases such as cataracts and chronic ear disease are usually treated at a much earlier stage in developed countries, but frequently progress to cause major problems when left untreated.
"We literally had people who came in blind from advanced cataract disease and were able to see after surgery," said MAJ Brett Nelson, the team's ophthalmologist.
The mission goals were to offer specialty surgical services to Bangladeshi patients that are typically unavailable, as well as to train the Bangladeshi doctors to perform these surgeries. U.S. and Bangladeshi Army physicians worked closely during the mission to accomplish this complex task.
"There were sometimes two U.S. and two Bangladeshi physicians around a patient in surgery at one time," said SGT Melissa Aschenbrenner, a surgical technician. "By the end of the mission, the Bangladeshi doctors were able to do a lot of the surgery on their own."
"The Bangladeshi Army really deserves a significant amount of credit for the arrangements to take care of the civilians during this mission," said SFC Robert Nelson, mission NCOIC and surgical technician.
Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world and one of the poorest. Nearly 150 million people live in an area approximately the size of the state of Iowa. With average per capita income less than $200 per month, most of the population lives in poverty. Although a national health-care system exists, access to medical care is difficult for most of this rural population.


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Styx headline one of the summer's hottest tour packages as the Midwest Rock N Roll Express stop at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater/Encore Park in Alpharetta, Ga.
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Always a pleasure to shoot, Styx performances are lit like it's your birthday! The artists as well seemingly ensure stage front posing of all combinations during the limits of the first three songs all the while accompanied by glorious production. The challenge of this night was a tight pit of photographers limited to a single file area approximately 20 feet long at dead center stage. This limited shooting angles and required patience for the artists to pass or mug at stage front and center – which they were gracious to do for the media. Nikon D700's and the 24-70 2.8 and 14-24 2.8 handled capture duties.


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Vitamin D is a pro-hormone and plays an essential role in a vast number of physiologic processes and clinical consequences [
Vitamin D inadequacy is a primary concern for post-menopausal women as they are already predisposed to the osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases due to decreased oestrogen levels. Menopause represents an important transition in vitamin D requirements due to the dependence of the VDR on oestrogen [
Studies were identified by searching PubMed for English-language articles through March 2013 by using keywords such as "vitamin D, hypertension, blood pressure, endothelial function, vascular health, chronic kidney disease, renal or kidney function", alone or in combination. The reference lists of published reports were also searched.
Vitamin D deficiency is an increasingly recognized public health problem. The direct comparison of data on vitamin D status from various studies are limited by the varying population characteristics, assay methods and the differing thresholds of vitamin D inadequacy. However, all the data suggest that there is a high rate of vitamin D insufficiency. A 2009 study of global vitamin D status reported that serum levels below 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) prevailed in every region studied [
The inadequacy of vitamin D affects an even larger proportion of postmenopausal women, particularly those with osteoporosis and a history of fracture [
No universal consensus has been reached on which level of serum 25(OH)D reflects optimum vitamin D status. In addition to the large inter-laboratory differences in assays for serum 25(OH)D [
Several commercial methods are available for serum 25(OH)D measurements. The international Vitamin D Quality Assessment Scheme [
In humans, skin synthesis of vitamin D from sunlight exposure is the major source of vitamin D (80%–90%) in humans under natural conditions [
Vitamin D is a collection of fat-soluble steroids. There are two types of physiologically important vitamin D: cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) and ergocalciferol (vitamin D2). D2 is typically obtained from fortified foods and vitamin sources [
The concentration of 1,25(OH)2D is regulated by a variety of factors including serum PTH, calcium, and phosphate [
The serum 25(OH)D level is the best indicator of overall vitamin D status since its long half-life (10–27 days following oral or intravenous administration and 1–3 months based on pharmacodynamic response, a more clinically-oriented half-life [
The active form of 1,25(OH)2D binds to VDR. VDR is nearly ubiquitously expressed. In addition to its traditional effects on bone health, there is accumulating evidence to suggest that the VDR has a broad spectrum of effects on various cell types including the endothelium [
The principal causes of low vitamin D levels are limited cutaneous synthesis due to inadequate sun exposure (sunscreen use, institutionalized or homebound status) or combined with low dietary intake of vitamin D rich foods [
Older people have lower dermal synthesis of vitamin D. Even similar exposure to sunlight, a person aged 70 y produces 75% less vitamin D than a person aged 20 [
Foods naturally containing rich vitamin D are limited. Oily fish (salmon, mackerel, and sardines) and cod liver oil are good sources of vitamin D3. Other food source includes egg yolk, fortified milk and orange juice, some cereals, mushrooms and cheese [
The US Institute of Medicine concluded that serum 25(OH)D of 20 ng/mL or more will cover the requirements of 97.5% of the population and recommended Dietary Allowance at 600 IU per day for people aged 1–70 year and 800 IU per day for older adults [
The effect of vitamin D on blood pressure could be one of the potential mechanisms underlying the link between vitamin D and cardiovascular diseases. The 1α-hydroxylase enzyme that converts 25(OH)D to 1,25(OH)2D is expressed in human endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells which have special relevance in the genesis of hypertension.
The association between 25(OH)D levels and arterial hypertension has been assessed in a number of cross-sectional studies [
Several large scale cross-sectional investigations revealed an inverse association of vitamin D levels with prevalence of hypertension. The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) [
A large cohort study [
A few prospective studies [
A 5-year prospective study among 1471 older women (mean age 74 year) fail to show a significant association between initial levels of 25(OH)D and change of BP. However, when the analyses were adjusted for vitamin D supplement use, greater initial levels of 25(OH)D (≥20 ng/mL compared to <20 ng/mL) were paradoxically associated with larger increases in BP [
A number of randomized controlled trials (RCT) evaluated the impact of vitamin D supplementation on BP, however the results are inconclusive. Several large scale trials specifically conducted among postmenopausal women also reported inconsistent findings.
In the largest trial [
Similarly, a one year RCT in UK among 305 healthy postmenopausal women aged 60–70 years also reported that daily doses of vitamin D3 at 400 or 1000 IU/day for one year did not affect conventional markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk including lipids, blood pressure and endothelial markers
A meta-analysis including 11 RCT provided little support for a positive effect of vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure [
In summary, although experimental and observational studies favor the hypothesis that vitamin D sufficiency promotes the lowering of arterial BP, findings from clinical trials are still inconclusive, especially among postmenopausal women. In general, the antihypertensive effects of vitamin D seem to be particularly prominent in vitamin-D-deficient patients with elevated blood pressure. Further large and well designed randomized, placebo-controlled trials are needed to clarify the effect of vitamin D on blood pressure.
Endothelial dysfunction is an early vascular pathology and characterized by a change in the properties of the endothelium toward decreased vasodilatation and the creation of a proinflammatory and prothrombotic state [
There are many potential mechanisms mediating a vitamin D effect on endothelial function. Vitamin D may improve endothelial function indirectly by reducing BP, which may in turn be due to its suppressing renin-angiotensin system [
Most observational studies have shown associations between low circulating levels of vitamin D and endothelial dysfunction. In a large study of 554 healthy individuals, serum vitamin D levels were independently associated with brachial artery flow mediated vasodilatation (FMD) and arterial stiffness after adjusting for age, sex, race, BMI, serum lipid levels, plasma C-reactive protein and medications [
In addition to healthy individuals, vitamin D levels can influence endothelial function in disease states. Impaired brachial artery FMD was documented in 280 type 2 diabetic individuals who had low serum vitamin D concentrations [
Clinical trials using vitamin D as supplement produced inconsistent findings (
Randomized controlled trials on vitamin D supplementation and endothelial function.
|Authors year
|Sample size
|Intervention groups
|Outcome measures
|Schleithoff, S.S.
|Patients with CHF
|9 months
|50 μg vitamin D3 plus 500 mg Ca/day or placebo plus 500 mg Ca/day
|Vitamin D3 reduces the inflammatory and endothelial biomarkers.
|Sugden, J.A.
|Patients with Type 2 diabetes and low serum 25(OH) D levels (<50 nmol/L), with average age of 64 year
|8 weeks
|A single large dose of vitamin D2 100,000 IU or placebo
|Vitamin D significantly improved brachial FMD by 2.3% independent of BP change.
|Tarcin, O.
|Vitamin D-deficient subjects (25(OH)D < 25 nmol/L)
|3 months
|300,000 IU im monthly for 3 months
|Vitamin D has favorable effects on FMD.
|Dong, Y.
|Normotensive black boys and girls, mean age 16.3 year
|2000 IU daily vitamin D3 supplementation
|Significant improvements in PWV with vitamin D3 supplementation.
|Witham, M.D.
|Patients with type 2 diabetes and baseline 25(OH) D levels < 100 nmol/L
|16 weeks
|A single oral dose of placebo or vitamin D3 100,000 IU or 200,000 IU
|No significant difference in the primary outcome of endothelial function.
|Harris, R.A.
|African Americans
|16 weeks
|60,000 IU monthly supplementation of oral vitamin D3 and placebo group
|Significant improvements on FMD in the vitamin D group (1.8 ± 1.3%).
|Patients of type 2 diabetes
|12 weeks
|Vitamin D3-fortified yogurt drink (containing 170 mg calcium and 500 IU/250 mL), or 170 mg calcium and no vitamin D/250 mL), twice a day
|A significant improvement in endothelin-1, E-selectin and MMP-9 by vitamin D3-fortified yogurt drink.
|Witham, M.D.
|Patients with stroke and baseline 25-(OH) D levels < 75 nmol/L, with mean age 67 year
|16 weeks
|A single large dose of 100,000 IU oral vitamin D2 or placebo
|FMD was increased at 8 weeks (6.9%
|Stricker, H.
|Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and low 25 (OH) D level (<30 ng/mL)
|1 month
|A single large dose of 100,000 IU oral vitamin D2 or placebo
|No effect on endothelial function and arterial stiffness.
|Longenecker C.T.
|HIV-patients with baseline Vitamin D deficient (</=20 ng/mL)
|12 weeks
|vitamin D3 4000 IU daily or placebo
|No effect on FMD.
|Gepner, A.D.
|Post-menopausal women with serum 25(OH) D concentrations 10–60 ng/mL
|4 months
|Vitamin D3 2500 IU or placebo
|No significant effect on FMD, PWV or AIx.
CHF denotes congestive heart failure; BP denotes blood pressure; Ca denotes calcium; FMD denotes flow mediated dilation; PWV denotes pulse wave velocity; AIx denotes augmentation index; im denotes intramuscular injection.
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In contrast, a 16-week RCT [
The kidney plays an essential role in vitamin D metabolism in circulation [
The reasons for this marked vitamin D deficiency in CKD are multi-factorial. CKD can induce a progressive loss of the capacity of the kidney not only to convert 25(OH)D to circulating calcitriol (the vitamin D hormone), but also to maintain serum 25(OH)D levels for non-renal calcitriol synthesis. The resulting calcitriol and 25(OH)D deficiency associates directly with accelerated disease progression and death [
Most [
Results from animal experiments demonstrated reno-protective effects of both active vitamin D and its analogues [
Randomized, controlled trials addressing renoprotective potential of vitamin D are not adequately studied. Indirect evidence suggests that treatment with vitamin D receptor activators confers a considerable survival advantage in hemodialysis patients [
Although no consensus exists on the optimal levels of 25(OH)D measured in the serum, the US Institute of Medicine recommended that mean 25(OH)D levels should be >20 ng/mL in the general population. It might be reasonable to suggest slightly higher levels (up to 30 ng/mL) in patients with CKD [
In clinical trials, vitamin D toxicity was not observed with doses of up to 10,000 IU per day [
The observational data presented in this review suggest an association between low vitamin D status and increased blood pressure, endothelial and renal dysfunction; however, clinical trials have reported inconsistent findings. The discordant findings of RCTs could be due to the differences in features of participants, their adherence to the supplements, study duration, various dosage regimes or dosing interval of vitamin D, the concomitant calcium intake, or the primary outcome that was measured [
Although a single hormone like vitamin D seems unlikely to play a substantial role in preventing or ameliorating the diverse range of diseases [
The present research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
The author declares no conflict of interest.


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Nolinospiroside F is a steroidal saponin isolated from
Alzheimer's disease
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nuclear magnetic resonance
reactive oxygen species
real-time polymerase chain reaction
superoxide dismutase
yeast peptone dextrose
yeast peptone galactose
Aging has become a worldwide problem, and increasing numbers of people are suffering from age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and diabetes. Recent studies have shown a close relationship between aging and age-related disorders, especially between aging and AD. Small molecules, such as resveratrol (RES), have been shown to have significant anti-aging effects on yeast and positive effects on AD via the SIRT1 signaling pathway, a pathway that's known to have important functions in aging and AD [
One of the best-known methods used in anti-aging studies is the yeast replicative lifespan assay. A new bioassay method was established with the K6001 yeast strain, which is more convenient than the traditional lifespan assay [
Steroidal saponins are molecules with various bioactivities. Steroidal saponins are mainly found in plants and some marine organisms, such as starfish [
When screening natural products, the bioassay used must be simple, reliable and fast and have good reproducibility. The K6001 yeast strain meets these requirements, as proven in studies with a well-known small molecule, resveratrol (RES) [
Among the various theories used to explain the aging process, the activity of free radicals, which was first proposed by Harman [
Malondialdehyde (MDA), the principal product of the degradation of polyunsaturated lipids by ROS [
To confirm whether or not
SIRT1, the homolog of yeast Sir2, has an important function in the lifespan of mammals. SIRT1 can deacetylate and activate PGC-1α and FOXOs to induce
SKN7 is a transcriptional activator. In previous studies, we found that
In this study, both
Strains were derived from K6001 yeast.
After treatment with 0, 1, 3 or 10 μM nolinospiroside F, the K6001 yeast cells were cultured in 25 mL of galactose medium for 36 h. About 5 μL of the same OD600 aliquot of cultured yeast was spotted onto agar plates containing 7.5 mM H2O2. Incubation at 28 °C followed. After 3 d, the number of yeast colonies was counted.
K6001 yeast cells were cultured in galactose medium after treatment with 0, 1, 3 or 10 μM nolinospiroside F for 24 or 48 h. To measure the MDA change in cells after administrating nolinospiroside F under oxidative stress condition, K6001 yeast cells were pretreated with 0, 1, 3 or 10 μM nolinospiroside F for 12 h. After that, 75 μM H2O2 was added into the cell culture, and yeast cells were incubated continuously for 24 h. The cells were washed thrice with PBS and collected after centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 10 min. Cells were resuspended in 200 μL of PBS and disintegrated by ultrasonication (1 min/time, 5 times) and freeze-thawing (5 min in liquid nitrogen, then 15 min in water bath at 37 °C) 5 times, followed by repeated ultrasonication 5 times. The cell lysate was centrifuged at 12,000 rpm at 4 °C for 15 min, after which the supernatant was removed. MDA was measured using an MDA assay kit following the manufacturer's instructions (Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute, Nanjing, China).
RT-PCR was performed as previously described [
K6001 yeast cells were cultured in galactose medium after treatment with 0, 1, 3 or 10 μM nolinospiroside F for 48 h. K6001 or Δ
Different concentrations of nolinospiroside F were added to the reagents of an SIRT1/Sir2 assay kit, according to the manufacturer's instructions (CycLex, Ina, Nagano, Japan). The detailed procedure for the SIRT1 assay was described in a previous report [
Significant differences among groups in all experiments were determined by ANOVA, followed by two-tailed multiple
In this study, we found that nolinospiroside F extends the replicative lifespan of the K6001 yeast strain significantly and improves yeast survival under oxidation conditions. It also increases
We are grateful to M. Breitenbach, Salzburg University, Austria for gifts of K6001 yeast strain. This work was supported by NSFC (30873152) and Qianjiang Talent Program of Zhejiang Province (2010R10052).
The authors declare no financial or commercial conflict of interest.
Chemical structure of nolinospiroside F.
Effects of nolinospiroside F on the replicative lifespan of K6001 yeast strain. The yeast cells grown in YPGal medium were spread on a glucose medium plate containing different nolinospiroside F concentrations. The daughter cells of 40 microcolonies of each experiment were counted. The assay was repeated at least thrice. The average lifespan of untreated K6001 was 6.43 generations; resveratrol (RES) at 10 μM, 7.55*; nolinospiroside F at 1 μM, 7.65*; at 3 μM, 7.88**; and at 10 μM, 7.80* (*
Protection effect of nolinospiroside F on the growth of K6001 yeast under oxidative stress conditions. K6001 yeast was incubated for 36 h after treatment with 1, 3 or 10 μM nolinospiroside F. Then, 5 μL aliquots with the same number of cells were spotted onto plates containing 7.5 mM H2O2. The plates were incubated for 3 d at 28 °C, and the number of colonies was counted. The assay was repeated at least thrice. Vertical bars represent the mean ± S.E.M. of three assays. The average number of colonies of untreated K6001 was seven; nolinospiroside F at 1 μM, 37*; at 3 μM, 103**; and at 10 μM, 91*** (*
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that November's healthcare.gov enrollment was more than four times October's, for a cumulative total of nearly 137,204 Americans that have selected plans since Oct. 1.
In the same time, the state-based marketplaces had enrollments of 227,478. The numbers include individuals who have not yet paid the premium, which is the final step in the enrollment process.
Nationwide, the report said, 1.9 million have made it through the eligibility process since Oct. 1 but have not yet selected a plan. An additional 803,077 were determined or assessed eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The report also listed cumulative totals of 39.1 million visitors to the state and federal sites, and an estimated 5.2 million calls to their call centers.
A much-cited Congressional Budget Office projection from May showed 7 million people obtaining insurance through the marketplaces in 2014.
The report said 11,788 Pennsylvanians had selected a plan on healthcare.gov through the end of November, which was the transition point for some significant improvements. Yesterday, nonprofit insurer Highmark reported that its total enrollment through Dec. 9 in Pennsylvania was 10,112.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged individuals to sign up by Dec. 23 for coverage starting Jan. 1 and noted that the open enrollment period is six months long, continuing until March 31, 2014.


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- Anthony Scaramucci Sure Has Made A Lot Of Blunders In His First Week
Last night, the Mooch accused Reince Priebus of "cock-blocking" him and Steve Bannon of "trying to suck [his] own cock." There's much more where that came from.
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Turns out what any good sales pitch needs is a salesman with ants all over his eyes and a great percussive beat to go with his speech.
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You know what goes great with ice cream? That's right, gingerbread — the most perfect summer bake.
- The Data That Transformed AI Research — And Possibly The World
Originally published in 2009 as a research poster stuck in the corner of a Miami Beach conference center, ImageNet quickly evolved into an annual competition to see which algorithms could identify objects in the dataset's images with the lowest error rate.
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Where some deliver knockout performances, others sound like they came from a middle school talent show.
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The scope of the infamous 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which evolution and creationism swung from different branches of judicial and judicious schisms, echoes still some 80 years later in a society that has never really been able to get this now new millennium "Monkey" off its back.
Christopher Plummer plumbs the depths of the daring dimensions of the godless Henry Drummond, a theatrical stand-in for Clarence Darrow, whose real-life defense of a Tennessee teacher accused of teaching Darwin to students was viewed as more than a Tennessee waltz away from the truth; it was a twist of ugly anger at the God-given word and world of the Bible.
Hell hath no fury like a wizard scorned — and to the prosecutorial table comes Matthew Harrison Brady (Brian Dennehy), a three-time presidential candidate (recalling William Jennings Bryan) whose heavenly pleas haven't turned him into a president but a damn-fine defiant preacher of the "Word."
The two stately actors have a way with the words penned by playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee more than 50 years ago. But give the devil his due — it's Plummer who smirks, storms and smashes the ageless controversy into a fistful of thunder that shakes the stage with greatness and startles it to action in a courtroom of suspenseful animation.
Not that Dennehy has the dearth of a salesman's tools to put over his God and glory gut-wrenching gristled performance — albeit, the gut is somewhat less these days — with his holier-than-thou (and thou and thou) thousand points of light he hopes to shine on the godless.
What remains important about this 50-year-old warhorse of a classic is that the ideological wars nag on in a gallop poll of urgency; legal wrangles and tangles bedevil both sides.
Though ostensibly written about the Scopes trial, "Inherit the Wind" wound its roundhouse punch when originally produced on Broadway for a shot in the oy of the McCarthy hearings as the playwrights let history of the '20s play out against the hysterics of the 1950s.
Is it any wonder then that "Inherit the Wind" has inherited the role of classic debunker of the moral pustules that seem to populate every generation of people with God on their side?
Whether incarnated on stage by Paul Muni (Drummond) and Ed Begley (Brady) originally, or George C. Scott and Charles Durning in a revival meeting new audiences 11 years ago — the 1960s' film version, with notable differences from the Broadway script, starred Spencer Tracy and Fredric March — or in the march of contenders in a variety of TV versions over the years, "Inherit" is inherently a dramatic clash of truths as treasons to one side or the other.
Most importantly, it is about thought-policing and those keyed in on uncuffing captured ideas sentenced to serve out their terms stigmatized. Playing out in the new millennium this new revival revs up the rage of unreasonable reckonings and seraphic sedition. It is here at the Lyceum Theater, where lies and truths and angels and agnostics agonize over survival of the frisson between religion and evolution, that God is in the details and the detritus. The work is directed by Doug Hughes, with one eye on hypocrisy and the other on the heavens.
"He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind," claims the proverb, "and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
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Can stormy weather cause a headache? Are two short walks as good as one long one? And what makes an eye flutter? Those are the questions in this week's mailbag.
Q: I experience horrible headaches with flu/hangover-type symptoms when the barometric pressure changes. Any thoughts on what this may be and how to cure or at least make it tolerable? It's getting to be difficult to live like this! — Julie Clark, Jupiter, Fla.
A: Frequent, severe headaches that literally sicken you and make life difficult could be migraines. If you've never had your headaches formally diagnosed, that's an essential first step. Working with a doctor, you can then track your headaches and possible triggers to find the best prevention and treatment approaches.
And you may be on to something with your belief that changes in the weather play a role. In a study published in 2004, 48 out of 77 migraine patients at a Connecticut clinic said their headaches could be triggered by weather factors — and 39 appeared to be correct when their headache diaries were checked against local weather reports for several months.
Patients often named a different weather factor, however, from the one that seemed the likely culprit for them. The most common apparent triggers are sudden changes in temperature and drops in barometric pressure (which can precede storms), says Fred Sheftell, president of the American Headache Society and director of the New England Center for Headache. The center was the study site.
Some other studies have dismissed the weather link. "For some people this is a controversy, but it's not from where I'm sitting," Sheftell says. "My patients are better predictors of storms than the National Weather Service."
For more information, visit the society's patient education site at achenet.org.
Q: I am an 80-year-old male in good health. I walk 3 miles every other day and play golf on the other days. Is it better to walk the 3 miles in one walk or walk half in the morning and half in the afternoon? There are two long hills on the 3-mile walk, and I get quite tired at the end. —David Schroer, Green Valley, Ariz., and Homer, Alaska
A: I posed your question to Vonda Wright, an orthopedic surgeon in Pittsburgh who advises senior athletes. She is author of Fitness After 40: How to Stay Strong at Any Age.
Her response: "Bravo on your exercise regimen! It sounds great. Research has shown that accumulating 30 minutes of exercise a day is as beneficial as doing one 30-minute session. (So), you can divide up your 3-mile walk and still get the health benefits. Note, however, that it does your heart the most good to have a continual 20 minutes of brisk exercise at a time. Depending on how fast you are walking, you may be able to divide up your walk into two 1.5-mile segments and still get the 20 minutes of healthy heart workout in each session. Onward!"
You can find exercise guidelines at the National Institute on Aging.
Q: Lately my right eye has been fluttering, and it's just the right eye. What could cause such a thing? —Ricardo Clark, Battle Creek, Mich.
A: Most likely culprits: too much caffeine, too little sleep, too much stress — or all of the above. That's the word from Ivan Schwab, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California-Davis.
Most folks who say they have an eye flutter actually have an eyelid flutter — a muscular twitch that almost always is harmless and can be eliminated by cutting down your daily number of sodas, tea or coffee drinks, catching a few more Z's or reducing stress.
Less common: a twitching eyeball. That kind of twitch can create a "very disconcerting" sense that the "world is tilting," Schwab says.
In either case, a serious underlying health problem is rare. But if the flutter persists for weeks and bothers you significantly, see an eye physician.
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The biological mother has been convicted of DUI arrested for drugs and uses drug. Currently lives with her mother who is also a heavy drinker and abuses prescription medications.I am the biological father and have no means to support the child either does the mother can she be declared unfit and the child placed in foster care. to give the child a chance at having a life
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Your child is in a very difficult situation.
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One of the most famous advertising campaigns in US history launched on this day in 1968: "You've come a long way" (sometimes with "baby" added at the end) was the provocative tagline for a new, thinner cigarette produced by the Phillip Morris Company and marketed specifically to women. The campaign, developed by the famed Leo Burnett Agency, was wildly successful, both in commercial (it sold a lot of cigarettes) and cultural terms, becoming almost instantly a national catch-phrase.
The campaign traded on-- one might have said "co-opted" in the 1960s-- the emerging feminist consciousness and the rise of "the New Woman," a woman who was independent, self-sufficient, and eager to demonstrate her confidence. At the same time, imagery in the ads linked this sassy confidence with U.S. women's history (itself an emerging field in academe) in contrasting the freedom and glamour of today's woman with the drudgery and repression that women in the past had endured.
It was all very clever-- and Phillip Morris knew they had a winner right away. An in-house corporate study from 1986 touted Virginia Slims' "brand personality" as the key to its success. Contrasting the brand with "women's" brands produced by PM competitors, such as "Eve" and "Satin," Phillip Morris said the Virginia Slims brand was "feminine but non-threatening. It was 'user-friendly.' The women were women who could make choices but had not lost their femininity. The brand was aspirational."
"Aspirational"-- and also, like all other cigarettes-- addictive and lethal. The Virginia Slims campaign was widely credited-- "blamed" may be more appropriate-- for convincing thousands of teenage girls to take up smoking as a sexy, free-wheeling and ..... even revolutionary act.
Robert F. Kennedy dies in Los Angeles, June 6, 1968
Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded in a shooting in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 about 15 minutes after midnight, and after nearly 26 hours was declared dead on June 6. The assassination took place in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, just moments after Kennedy had declared victory in the California Democratic primary for the party's presidential nomination. The gunman was a young Palestinian-American, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who had become obsessed with Kennedy's support for Israel. Sirhan Sirhan was tried and convicted in 1969, and sentenced to death, a sentence later commuted to life imprisonment. At age 67, he remains in prison in California.
It's easy to forget how very brief Kennedy's presidential campaign was. He had only declared his intention to seek the nomination on March 16-- after Eugene McCarthy's surprising show of strength in the New Hampshire primary (March 12), but before the famous announcement (March 31) by President Lyndon Johnson that he would not be seeking a second term, opening up space for Vice President (and eventual nominee) Hubert Humphrey. March, April and May 1968 were thus months of immense volatility.
Kennedy's campaign went into high gear by the end of March, producing vast quantities of brochures, mailers, and buttons--most of which, sadly, were never distributed. Many boxes of unused campaign materials ended up with the Robert Kennedy Papers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, which has generously shared some of them with "The 1968 Exhibit."
Most amazing, however, is this extraordinary full-page advertisement, published in the New York Times on May 16, 1968: a seemingly endless list of "boldface" names and their professions, followed by the simple line "..... are for Kennedy." It's worth enlarging the image and taking a look at the still-famous names who endorsed Kennedy. In alphabetical order, it starts off with Hank Aaron ("Atlanta Braves") and Charles Addams ("Cartoonist") and concludes with Donald Zagoria, a political scientist. Along the way are Hollywood stars (Warren Beatty, Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Janet Leigh) and directors (Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz); artists (Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol); writers (Norman Mailer AND Truman Capote); sports figures (Vince Lombardi, Bob Cousy, Roosevelt Grier); and entertainers, including Sammy Davis, Jr., Bill Cosby, and Diana Ross and the Supremes ("singing group, Detroit, Mich."). Take a look:
Hubert H. Humphrey was born on this day, May 27th, one hundred years ago. He thus shares a birth year with another towering figure in American political history, Ronald Reagan. And at one time early in their public lives the two men actually occupied roughly the same side of the political spectrum---the liberal Democratic side. Reagan, of course, swung far to the right by the 1950s, becoming the great standard bearer of American conservatism, while HHH remained devoted to liberal political ideals until his dying day, which sadly came too soon, in January 1978, when he was only 66.
The career of Hubert Horatio [one of the great middle names in history] Humphrey has been beautifully chronicled by Minnesota filmmaker Mick Caouette in his 2010 documentary Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible (look for the trailer here), and in numerous biographical works.
The year 1968 was -- or should have been -- Humphrey's year. The year's HHH narrative is well known: In March, the man he served under as Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, under brutal pressure from a failing war in Vietnam, decides not to run for a 2nd full term as President. A full month later, HHH-- facing stiff opposition from two anti-war Democratic senators who had entered the race for the nomination-- Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy-- throws his hat into the ring, announcing that his will be a "politics of joy." McCarthy's campaign stumbles, Kennedy is killed in early June, and HHH emerges as the front-runner for the nomination, though still fighting to become his own man, independent of the twinned curse of LBJ and Vietnam. The nominating convention in Chicago in late August (the Republicans had gone first, and nominated former VP Richard Nixon, not without some heavy baggage and "negatives" himself) becomes a near disaster, both inside the convention hall and outside with pitched battles between out-of-control Chicago police and violent, angry, antiwar "hippies" and "Yippies" spoiling for a fight. HHH emerges a winner, but is severely bruised by the riots and Democratic disarray. The full Fall campaign-- just a little more than two months long-- is rocky, and further complicated by the strong presence of arch-segregationist and former Alabama governor George Wallace, running on a third party. HHH is way behind for a while, then pulls very close in the waning days of October, only to lose-- barely-- to Nixon on November 5th.
HHH appeared on a lot of magazine covers in 1968, and if he were still around, he might have liked this one from LIFE, showing a winning pose with his running mate, Maine senator Edmund Muskie (though the headline --"But What a Week"-- pulls you back into the ugly reality of the convention debacle).
Surely, he would NOT have liked this one from Ramparts, the poster with his earnest face crumpled into a trash basket. Look for this from an earlier Covering 1968 post.
Full disclosure, right here at the outset: Richard Nixon is my favorite President. Not my choice for "Greatest President" (going to have to go with FDR there) but clearly at the top of "Most Fascinating," or "Most Compulsively Readable." My interest in RN (as he often styled himself) may run in the family. My greatest-generation-era Dad (an anti-JFK Irish Catholic) voted for Nixon 5 times on the national ballot (4 winning, one losing ticket). My brother, a journalist, confessed some years back to a passion for reading Nixon biographies-- he counted 50 or so at the time that he had tucked away.
So working on the 1968 Exhibit has allowed me ample opportunity to exercise my guilty pleasure of reading about Richard Nixon. As I wrote a while back, commenting on a magazine cover that declared that "the Nixon Era Begins" with his election to the presidency in November, it seems like ALL of the Sixties -- and at least a few years of the 1970s-- was The Nixon Era. Yes, this Vice President for almost all of the 1950s lost the presidential race to JFK in 1960, and lost again two years later to Pat Brown in the California governor's race, but he always seems to be THERE, lurking around the corner, waiting, working patiently for His Time, which he seized, brilliantly, in 1968.
Not that everyone was thrilled with the outcome in November 1968, not even Republicans. A cloud of suspicion and anxiety about RN filled the airwaves and the media as the positioning and the campaigning ramped up. Early in the year, LOOK magazine hired novelist Fletcher Knebel (co-author of the 1962 best-selling Seven Days in May) to profile the presumptive candidate, and ran the story as "The Puzzling Case of Richard Nixon." There's a nice Norman Rockwell portrait of him, but also a famous photo of a shifty-eyed, scary Dick Nixon, too. The article concludes: "And so, candidate Nixon of 1968: Hawk abroad, flexible innovator at home, a loser on the comeback trail, the old pro in the familiar, dusty road of a national campaign, a man who has learned to exploit the likelihood that he'll never win a beauty prize, the loner, the hustler, the riddle."
Contrast this with this great find: The Nixon 1968 Yearbook, a wonderful, big, glossy campaign book, published the Nixon/Agnew Committee just after the nominating convention in Miami Beach in early August. On the cover: The classic "tanned, rested, and ready" photo. There are photo spreads of Nixon's baby and boyhood pictures, photos of RN's career as a member of the House of Representatives, photos and stories of his forgettable eight years as Veep. There are whole "chapters" with titles like "And This is His Partner: Pat Nixon," and "Powerful Running Mate: Ted Agnew." My favorite photos are the "candids" of his family life-- in the "Family Album" section selected by Julie and Trisha Nixon-- there's even a shot of a bare-chested (yes!) Nixon on the beach with his kids. Stark contrast to the famous photos published during Nixon's presidency of him walking "casually" -- at the suggestion of his media advisors-- on a beach,
wearing a suit and dress shoes.
The Yearbook is a very effective bit of campaign propaganda-- brilliant in its own way as were his TV commercials. You immerse yourself in it and believe in Richard Nixon as 1968 America's greatest hope -- just for a second.
The CD "Stephen Stills Just Roll Tape" was released in 2007---a first-time release of music recorded (solo) by the famed guitarist, songwriter and singer at an informal studio session in 1968. The spare album notes by Stills are (in their entirety): "I was at a Judy Collins session in New York in 1968, and when she was finished, I peeled off a few hundreds for the engineer so I could make a tape of my new songs. Some you'll know; some you might not. The following fall we made the first CSN album, and the tape has been lost to the wind for almost 40 years. Somehow it's found its way back, and these songs now feel like great friends when they were really young."
The date "stamped" on the outside of the track list is April 26, 1968, although a Wikipedia article states that on that date Stills was playing a gig with Buffalo Springfield in Arizona, so draw your own conclusions. Stills, who is the only artist heard in the session, singing and playing guitar and dobro, apparently left the tapes in the studio, and eventually considered them lost. But they were somehow saved (and presumably unplayed) for nearly 40 years, finally ending up back in his hands.
The recording quality is amazing, especially the instrumental playing. And Stills distinctive voice runs through its huge range. As he says, some of the songs are familar--- VERY familiar to anyone who owned (or lived with a roomate, as I did, who owned) the first Crosby Stills & Nash album, released in 1969: "Wooden Ships," "Helplessly Hoping," and especially the nearly 7-minute-long "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." Here's a YouTube (audio only) version of that one:
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The corporate regulator for energy distribution has conceded that some companies have managed to rort the system and gouge large price increases from customers.
Australian Energy Regulator chairman Andrew Reeves conceded yesterday that there were problems but said the regulator was constrained by the rules that had governed the system since its establishment in 2006.
The AER sets the limits on what distribution companies, which own poles, wires and gas pipelines, can charge customers.
"Network costs are a major contributor to increases in electricity prices," he told an Energy Users Association conference in Melbourne yesterday.
"The current rules limit the ability of the regulator to determine efficient costs, putting upward pressure on energy prices for consumers."
Distribution charges made up half a customer's bill and were a major contribution to increasing power prices in recent years, he said.
The AER hoped to have its new rules approved by the Australian Energy Market Commission this year and in place for the price reviews in NSW and the ACT due to start in 2014.
Mr Reeves said the regulator needed to make greater use of bench marking so that it could make "unbiased" forecasts on the cost of capital and expenditure rather than relying on company information.
Incentives for excessive expenditure needed to be removed through different treatment of assets. He said the regulator was overly constrained in its assessment of the cost of capital. For example, it must use the 10-year corporate bond rate despite the very limited issuance of them in Australia.
The result was the AER was able to make changes only"at the margins" of the proposals from companies which had clear incentives to pitch their estimates at the top end, he said.
"While there is a fundamental need to invest in the networks to meet rising demand, replace ageing assets and maintain reliability, the AER considers that the rules need to be improved to ensure that consumers do not pay more than is necessary," he said.
The new rules would seek to "shield customers from inefficient excessive expenditure", he said.
Mr Reeves said the changes would bring the AER into line with other regulators of utilities such as water and telecommunications.
Energy Networks Association acting chief executive John Devereaux said the national price-setting system had almost completed one entire cycle and so it was a logical time to consider some "tweaking".
But he said there was no evidence of price-gouging by network companies.
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Energy Users Association executive director Roman Domanski said the review was welcome but it would have no impact until 2014.
He called on governments to act to rein in price increases from distribution companies before the review.
Carbon Market Economics director Bruce Mountain said the onus of proof needed to be reversed so that companies had to prove their claims to the AER were correct rather than the regulator proving they were false.
Mr Mountain also criticised the appeal process saying it was stacked in favour of the distribution companies.
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On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart summed up our potential default and mocked House republicans for "playing politics with our credit rating."
Stewart discussed President Obama's deal that offers tax increases for the democrats and spending cuts for the Republicans as well as his now famous "eat our peas" comment, but he saved most of his snark for members of Congress, specifically Speaker of the House John Boehner.
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I have a cat named Catherine the Great, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias (Cat for short).
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I like music that has intensity, whatever that vague term means. Some examples: Beck, Fugazi, High on Fire, The Melvins, NOFX, Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Ravi Shankar.
I like spicy food. I like fruit more than vegetables, and I like orange but not green vegetables. I like bread. I do not care for any sort of of seafood.
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My bikes (not motorcycles, real bikes). I bike all year, which is not as difficult as you might think. Though I've done some casual races, I am not a racer. I don't train. I just like to ride and transport myself in an enjoyable way.
Wikipedia. C.f. http://xkcd.com/214/
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If my mission was to try to live without Office, this experiment was an abject failure. But I did have fun. I learned a lot. And I got all my work done.
Herewith, a few conclusions:
Online storage can be addictive. Sitting down at any PC with a Web connection and having instant, effortless access to all your documents can change the way you work. (Microsoft, why hasn't this feature been built into Office for years?)
Even highly connected people aren't connected all the time. And a productivity tool that's available only when you're online is one that will never eliminate traditional software from your life.
These services are still extremely immature. Their streamlined simplicity can be refreshing (in some ways, Writely is already a more pleasant place to sling words than Office 2003). But even if a browser-based service gives you 80 percent of the Office tools you need, that missing 20 percent may be really, really important.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Magic Circle - Magic Circle
1. White Light
2. Rapture
3. The Greatest Escape - White Shores
4. Scream Evil
5. Conquering Nocturnity
6. Magic Circle - Cloven In Two
Sorry that this blog grinded to a halt for a bit but work is an evil thing, so to make amends I drop this pearler here. Boston's Magic Circle are a heavily doom metal influenced band featuring members of Mind Eraser, Rival Mob and Doomriders just to name a few. Six tracks of doom laden sabbath reminiscent jams that will have you banging your head.
Posted by Brenton at 3:08 AM 5 comments
Labels: Magic Circle
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Snakeface - Oberon
1. Listen Up
2. Devil's Leap
3. Cash Grab
4. Scum
5. Oberon
6. Occupy
7. The Bank
8. Unqualified
9. Holy Books
10. Oberon II
11. Midwest
12. Singularity
Here is the debut lp from Sydney's Snakeface, recorded in the blue mountains.
They've really expanded on their earlier stuff which was influenced by early Trash Talk and early Ceremony.
These 12 tracks are a huge leap from their previous sound, in a very positive and impressive way.
The intro track "Listen Up" is great. Fact is throughout the entire album they create their own soundscape combining the aggressive influences with this experimental slow beat, desert-bluesy side of guitar ringing and effects. Beaut. Highly recommend these great jams.
Buy it from Arrest Records here.
Posted by Brenton at 9:54 PM 7 comments
Labels: Snakeface
Neighbor - Be Here Now
1. Forget About Us
2. Shitstorm
3. Be Here Now
4. Runnin Outta Breath
5. All Hell
6. Have Mercy
New material from Austin, TX's Neighbor.
This follows up their "In Our Times" demo which I played more than any other demo last year.
6 more unbelievably catchy & well-written songs from this three piece garage punk band.
Didnt know about this, boy am I glad that I stumbled onto it.
Neat neat neat.
Posted by Brenton at 3:53 PM 0 comments
Labels: Neighbor
Bloody Hammer - Bloody Hammer
1. Streetfighter
2. Struggle For Power
3. Social Climber
4. Bloody Hammer
5. Fire In My Eyes
Been away for ages, but now im back.
To make it up to you baby I've brought you a gift.
Here's 5 tracks of the debut 10 track LP from Melbourne's Bloody Hammer.
Oi punk perfection. Cant wait to hear the rest! I loved their demo and I dig the shit out of this.
Get into it.
Posted by Brenton at 3:12 PM 2 comments
Labels: Bloody Hammer
Monday, July 9, 2012
Out Crowd - Just Us 7"
1. Intro-Our Struggle
2. Big Head Strikes Again
3. Blind Eye
4. weekend Wastoid
5. Clockwork
6. Deafening
7. My Malfunction
Here is Atlanta's Out Crowd's latest effort.
Seven new tracks of hardcore on 7" put out by Reaper Records.
Follows up their split with Written Off which I posted on here (love that split).
This is in the same vein and the same standard as their previous material, meaning to say that this is good.
Posted by Brenton at 3:35 PM 2 comments
Labels: Out Crowd
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Clear - Demo 7"
1. Nobody's Fool
2. You Still Here
3. Two Eyes
4. Pain Chain
5. Your Life, Your Hands
6. Let You Down
Here is Clear's demo, which is still up for pre-order now on Triple B records.
They sent me a bent Rival Mob 7" once off ebay (which I was cool with) so I can upload this right?
But seriously, you should buy this from BBB here because it is more than worth it.
Five minutes - six real jams.
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Labels: Clear
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The Rival Mob - Mob Justice Tape
1. Mob Justice Intro
2. Mob Justice
3. Boot Party
4. Be Somebody
5. Fake Big
6. We're The Boys
7. Philcore For Philcore
The new promo tape from Boston's The Rival Mob.
6 new jams and a Blitz cover to get you excited for their upcoming Lp on Revelation.
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Pamela Anderson's Morning Pick-Me-Up
Posted Tuesday January 13, 2009 10:43 PM GMT
Dressed in her trademark all-white ensemble, Pamela Anderson was spotted up and about in Malibu early Tuesday morning (January 13).
The "Baywatch" beauty teamed up with a gal pal, with the two dropping by Starbucks for a morning coffee and some fresh air.
Meanwhile, Pammie recently raised a few eyebrows after stepping out over the weekend with what appears to be a new boyfriend.
Donning a skimpy bikini, Anderson hit the beach as she worked up her tan, getting friendly with a mystery bearded surfer at the same time.
Enjoy the pictures of Pamela Anderson out in Malibu (January 13).
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