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Nice though your 750ti is, I think it's top end GPUs that cryptocurrency miners are interested in - 980s, 1080s and the like. The prices of second hand 980tis (for instance) have gone up considerably recently and it's hard to get one for much under £300 at the moment.
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Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs
Dirty code? If it works, leave it says Thoughtworks CTO
I thought the point she was making was don't make changes for change's sake? If the code is insecure or buggy or unsafe, then change it, but if it's a mess and is working, don't touch it until you have to. I would imagine that most gainfully employed folk don't have time to go around changing code that functions perfectly well. And imagine the joy you'll experience if your shiny new version has bugs in it!
Zuck covers up mic and webcam because sharing isn't always good
Re: Zuckerberg is running Thunderbird
TBird is a bit of a bloated lump these days, but it is still the best. I ditched Eudora for it years ago, and despite intermittently trying out the competition I'm still happy with it. I'm open to suggestions for an alternative on Win 7.
Supermassive black hole devours star and becomes X-ray flashlight
Re: No black hole required
Presumably though, the power and spectrum of X-rays detected is difficult to explain if you invoke sources other than an accretion disk. And if you can work out the size and speed of rotation of the accretion disk, then you can work out what the mass and density of the object in the middle of it is. Since you're clearly familiar with how Nature does things, you'll know that, given our current knowledge of physics you can only pack so much stuff into such a small space before you end up forming an event horizon.
btw, saying the x-rays are created using electricity is a bit of an odd way of phrasing it. Strictly, they're the photons emitted when an outer shell electron transitions to an empty lower energy state - it's caused by an electron transition, but it's not an electric current.
Battlestar Galactica vets needed for online roleplay
Quake Live = Linux support
And it runs (sort of) in the browser...
And its waaaayy better than UT :)
NY bomb scare bank worker 'evacuates self'
What what ?
This is srs news ! Srs !
Sacked health care BOFH jailed for revenge hack
These comments deliver
Worth $17m for these comments alone. And you people are eligable to vote....
Researchers: Arctic cooled to pre-industrial levels from 1950-1990
Less spots = cooler
Paradoxically, the sun is slightly cooler during a solar minimum :
Less spots = cooler sun.
Science can be tricky like that sometimes
UK.gov may cut BBC licence fee in 2012
Kwality telly
I wish I could find all this quality programming everyone keeps banging on about. Last time I looked there was feck all on the Beeb that couldn't have been made by Living TV.
Microsoft's .NET at ten: big hits, strange misses
Hah hah haaa ! OMG !
You're serious aren't you ??
Scattering begins and ends all over the place obscures the code. It makes things worse. {} && || symbols are much cleaner. If you can't handle that then god knows what you'd make of the bitwise operators or the ternary operator.
Overly compact code can be a problem, and coding clearly doesn't seem to come naturally to a lot of my colleagues, but I think you're aiming at the wrong target here...
Art and engineering: do they mix? Yes they do!
Mini Fusion reactor ??
Give them a Noble Prize and the keys to the World.
Unless it's 'just' a ball of plasma of course. Oh wait. It is. Plasma != Fusion.
Still awesomely impressive though.
Mighty hard-sums special function toolset goes online
Internet Explorer
Cannot display the webpage :(
Games console 'killer' powers Avatar 3D power package
Pew pew pew !
I think I'll stick with Quake Live for now. With the graphics turned up, it's a thing of beauty, at 125 frames per second no less.
Playing at 480 would be like going back to the 90s. I could see this working for online Civ. But a fast FPS ?? In the evening ?? At weekends ?? Only for ignert teenagers. Oh wait, that is the console market. Hmmm. Profit ?
Expedition to seek out 'alien' ocean-abyss life sets sail
I'm pretty sure that's not the case. I thought the abyssyl depths were anoxic. They metabolise sulphur and methane and stuff like that. No oxygen required. And stuff.
Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown
Best thread evah
Well. today anyway. Lord knows what would happen if some of you lot bumped into Mrs Bardell (Sexton Blake's housekeeper, not the Dicken's one). You'd explode like a tyrannical Star Trek computer confronted by a logical impossibility.
Now it's off to the shops to buy myself some decimated coconut.
Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Mini
Generic MP3 player
This sounds like another iWhatnot only piece of kit. I'd be interested to know how much of the MP3 player market Apple has cornered. I assume it's most of it...
So, anyone know if there are any docks out there that work with other players, like my loverly Sansa jobby ?
Windows 7 speculation claims SP1 will land in Q4 2010
Start Menu
Ooo. Maybe it'll let me get an XP style Start Menu, instead of the god forsaken thing that I'm saddled with. Why can't I create my own folders, or change the order that things appear ? That's progress for you.
Bah. A small prize for anyone that shows me the way to enlightenment.
Experts reboot list of 25 most dangerous coding errors
Doom at Dilbert.com
Rather appropriately it appears that www.dilbert.com has been hacked this morning and is serving up a dodgy virus scanner instead of some pithy 3 pane comment on the IT industry.
Don't go there, especially if you've set your browser to 'download everything and infect me pleaase'.
Combat walker machines: $3m for new studies
Crush, Kill, Destroy !
Mighty walking tanks eh ? They sounds awesome. And with no tracks to get damaged they'd be invulnerable ! Unless they've got some other kind of weakness.
Wikisupremes eject UK Wikispokesman from inner circle
Think of the children
It's nice to see them trying to clear up their act. Most of their articles are pretty good these days, but how would you spot minor mistakes like this :
Google 'experiment' crossbreeds Python with C++
Sounds teh awesome !
Or rather, it sounds a bit like C#, only without the huge number of libraries and a nice IDE. Presumably there will be an IDE ? I hear that vi is good.
And who really cares about compile times anyway (cue post from someone that does...)
Java, C++ and C# cover everything for me and there's always Coral 66 for those special occasions.
Cornish separatists take aim at pasty students
Priced out ?
Not wanting to be too picky, but who sold all those houses at vastly inflated prices to the hoorays ? Would that be the locals then ? Hmm. I guess it must be...
French workers threaten to blow up factory
I'm missing out
Hey, I can't see any pop up ads ? And IE8 isn't reporting blocked pop ups. I feel like I'm missing out here. How will I know what to buy if I'm not informed by adverts ?
Not sure I entirely agree with Citizen Kaned, much as I enjoyed the Scargill vs Thatcher saga when I was a lad. Breaking the law cos it suits your view of how the world should be is only going to end in guillotines and lycnhings you know. Or an India free from colonial rule. Anyway, it's one of the two.
Still, I'm happy to watch the French blow their factories up, as long as they don't spoil the family camping holiday on the Cote D'Azur in a fortnight by blockading Calais for no readily apparent reason.
Business throws cold water on gov hot air proposals
Nationalise El Reg !
Oh yeah, I'd love to live in a country where you could only get food from the State... That sounds awesome. Though I wasn't aware that was the case in Germany and France. Must look up Lidl on Wikipedia..
The State is godawful at running anything. The private sector may not provide utopia, but if it's regulated properly, it's a much better bet than any other party in town. If nothing else, it's much easier for the government to step in with an axe if they're not in charge (see the East Coast mainline shennanigans recently).
I agree with comments about the CBI - they're not known for long term thinking.
Tories don black cap for ID cards
Smash the rich
Well it ent the Tories that'll be paying to break these contracts - it'll be the Treasury, i.e. the taxpayer, i.e. us.
So, James, you've got it completely back to front.
Wayland - perhaps they're saying they're going to scrap em because, er, well, maybe they are actually going to scrap them ! Gumpf !
They've said this fairly consistently over the last few years, so it seems unlikely that they are really in favour of them. Contrast that with their reticence to go into much detail over other policies...
Yahoo! exposes very own stuffed elephant code
Hadaway and
But what was the elephant named after ???
Curious minds (with nothing better to do) demand to know !
Swivel-shed v polar stilt-scope in Big Bang boffinry clash
Nearly there
I think that Garret got it more righter than I did. Thanks Garret !
Re Ripples
They ent detecting gravity waves directly - they're looking for the effects that this primordial space-time wibbly wobblying would have had on the cosmic microwave background radiation, a la COBE.
It should see hot spots where the waves are in compression, and cold bits where they stretched space (well, relatively - it was all being stretched humunguosly; the gravity waves just overlayed a little extra squishing and stretching on top).
Presumably, their awesome theory predicts a particular pattern of hot and cold, rather than just a bunch of random speckles ?
Blighty's black honeybee comes in from the cold
One million dollars !
10 grand ? Isn't that basically no money ?
Or have I banged my head and woken up in the 60s ?
Opera scrambles to quash zero-day bug in freshly-patched browser
IE7 rules ! Oh wait...
Hmm. Click me eh ?
So that's a FAIL then.
Silverlight 2.0: killer features, no Flash killer
Corporate users
But it will be popular on corporate intranets. Web app front ends are still somewhat lacking in performance and features when compared to client executables running on every user's machine. This would seem to fix that problem nicely.
It's all about building and maintaining the developer base. People tend to develop applications using tools that they know. Flash and Ruby on Rails may be teh awesome, but if Megacorp has a gross of .NET programmers on the payroll, they'll start using Silverlight.
Fancy nipping for a quick two-thirds of a pint?
London bleergh
I'd gladly pay to drink less London beer. I mean, London Pride ? You ought to be ashamed.
Lehman Excel snafu could cost Barclays dear
re re re
No sensible suggestions on what should have been used I see.
'A proper document'. (www.properdocument.com ?). Ah yes. That's the solution. We can add up all the numbers by hand and then scribe them to vellum.
Surely the Reg readership would prefer to stick it to the 'junior LAW associate' than the much beloved Excel ? This is what happens when you let liberal arts students loose with technology (etc etc etc).
Microsoft sneaks out Silverlight 2
Mmm. Crystal Reports. The name is ironic I think.
Anyhow, surely some competition in the browser plugin market is a good thing, or do we prefer monopoly solutions, I mean standard ways of doing things ?
It's certainly ironic that it's not Microsoft with the monopoly this time, and given the amount of Silverlight content I've found on the web so far it probably won't be for some time.
Thousands more City workers to lose jobs, says CBI
The rise of the (self) righteous
Uh oh. It's starting to turn into "Have your Say" around here... It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the Daily Mail readers from the Morning Star readers. United at last.
Yeah bankers are evil ! They eat babies you know ! Without paying for them ! Or cleaning up afterwards !
At least we haven't got any posts all in capitals yet.
Calls to ban hoodie-busting sonic weapon
It's gone all Daily Mail on the Reg comment board.
What's the effect of these Mosquito devices on house prices, that's what I want to know.
And are they doubly effective on foreign teenagers ?
Submarine cable cut torpedoes Middle East access
Block cold calls ?
Try registering your phone with a cold call blocking service. I did and now the laydeez love me. Or something.
Anyway, that would seem to be the logical thing to do, if you're plagued by cold calls. Works for me.
Of course you could not bother, and continue to rage against furriners in call centres. Whatever floats your boat.
Visual Studio beats SQL Server in 2008 stakes
It's news to me.
Tech news on a tech news site. Who'd a thunk it ?
I'll be sticking with VS2005 for a few months though I think.
Forget passports - teachers and kids are the new ID card targets
Sub-Brains ? Wrists ?
Erk. This is a disturbing admission, given the quantity of Paris based articles on El Reg.
"It's not me. My wrist has a mind of its own"
Appalling images are coming to mind ! Aaargh ! My eyes !
Tighter controls likely after SocGen debacle
I blame the parents
Yay. More rules. I expect that these are special ones that won't be broken.
re Graham - if he'd been caught after making massive profits, he'd have been sacked sure as eggs is eggs. Despite the impression you may gain from the media, banks aren't interested in gambling their entire future on the markets and having nutters like Kerviel around isn't good for one's long term survival.
Making a bazillion bucks one minute and then going bankrupt the next isn't a solid business plan and it certainly hasn't been good for Bouton or the board's reputation. They'll be spending most of the next few years fending off lawsuits from the shareholders and the French regulator. Fun fun fun for them !
The idea that this is some sort of way of covering up their sub prime losses is laughable too. Pretty much every bank in world has taken a hit of some sort from the sub prime debacle. Covering it up with a massive c*ckup like this is akin to shooting yourself in the foot when you've got a veruca. And so has everyone else.
re Brent.
That's the top catchphrase in the wife's office (software development), always said in a nervously chipper fashion. Usually the answer turns out to be "Ooo. It's a bit more complicated than we thought".
Inside the Windows 2008 stack experience
When you're right, you're right
I'm with Stephen - it's nice to see an article about a large, real world project on El Reg.
I'm certainly interested to see how he gets on with 2008 - it'll come to all us MS shills at some point. More please !
And btw, I'd have no problem reading about somthing similar done with an open source project. It's all good.
Major HTML update unveiled
Frames ?
I've heard rumours that frames have been dropped in HTML 5.0.
I know I could have a look at the spec meself, but I'm about to nip out for a paper, so I thought I'd harness the mighty opinionsphere that is the El Reg comments form instead.
If true, it will be a bit of a pain. I know tha tpurists rather look down on frames, but I do find them to be useful on occasion.
Do we need computer competence tests?
Utterly bonkers.
Utterly unpolicable.
There's so much wrong with this idea, practically and ideologically it's difficult to know where to begin. If you want to have a free internet, suggesting that massive government oversight of all users is the way ahead suggests that you regard freedom and security to be in perfect correlation, with security as the driver.
Presumably licenses would be revoked for catching a virus (aargh ! One click and that's my software business ruined !), it's the spammers that the ISP would send the bill when your 1p per email limit is breached and it would all be run by a benign and completely competent goverment organisation.
Unplug em all I say ! Especially those teenage game players.
Dip into concept programming
Frameworks are the new black
Or not that new really.
Seriously though, if you took the .NET framework away from C# and the host of Java libraries (Swing etc) from Java, they wouldn't be much more use to anyone than good ole C++, or Ada.
Whizzy new languages are nice to have - C#'s lock and event specifiers are loverly, as is garbage collection, but the real power is in the .NET framework. I can code up complex applications very quickly on my own, because most of the work is being done by someone else's code, code that is likely to be considerably more bug free than my own.
I'd rather use an old fashioned language with a great framework than something cutting edge that requires me to write my own linked lists...
Maybe Concept Programming is brown and we'll all be wearing it next summer. Or maybe not. If it is useful, then no doubt some of the concepts will permeate into the mainstream. As long as it doesn't involve pair programming I'll give it a chance.
Showdown over encryption password in child porn case
re Ikabod
Oo ! Scary terrorists !
I don't imagine Ikabod is going to reveal his password to the infidel policemen just because the law says he has too. After all he is planning to nuke New York which is also, like, totally illegal.
I expect in your world, the police really ought to be allowed just to pop a cap in any bad guys like him. I mean, they know he's evil right ? Although that didn't work out so well for Jean Charles de Menezes, or the Forrest Gate 'terrorists'.
Still, a few dead innocent folk is a price worth paying. Oo. I hope one of them's not me though !
Mind you, Judge Dredd always got it right...
Sun pulls MySQL into its orbit
Ain't Free
It ain't free. Well, not completely.
It's free to download and free to use if you're not deploying it commercially.
Otherwise they do a range of webserver and CPU licenses, costing a few hundred quid upwards. Not sure how adept they are at chasing up unlicensed users mind you.
Boffins slashed in big-science budget blunder bloodbath
Headline recognition shocker
Good grief.
Your splendid headline has gained recognition from esteemed physics blogger Peter Woit :
It always gives me the shivers when two websites, which are unrelated other than by my surfing habits, link up like this. I expect I'm living in the Matrix, or something.
AI egghead: Human-robot humping, marriage by 2050
von Neumann
How can none of you have spotted the real danger here ? What happens when these luvbots start having sex with each other and reproducing ? ROTM that's what !
Before you know it we'll be corralled into organic slave camps and forced into gladiatorial combat for the amusement of our electronic overlords. Or something.
Our only hope will be Patch Tuesday (which is either the pseudonym of a heroric freedom fighter, or a once a month worldwide reboot leading to a global BSOD). Microsoft as saviours of humanity. How ironic is that ?
Japanese diggers unearth dino skull
Rarr !
As an atheist I'm totally offended by the name Godzilla. God has no place in explaining the existance of Oriental supersaurs. Given that there are many manifestations of the giant lizard, I hereby propose the name Mozilla.
Judge rules Gore's film an inconvenient catalogue of errors
Legal fees ?
Anyone know who paid the rest of his fees ? 66 grand is whopping heck of a lot for Mr Dimmock to find and presumably it wasn't the school that funded the case ?
I'm genuinely interested to know the answer.


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> "ifconfig ath0 mediaopt hostap mode 11g ssid my_net"
Yea, that plus the opt1 change seemed to pull it up
> After this, everything works fine. I made a bridge with LAN network.
Did the same thing here, however I did not see that network show up
when I scanned for it. Now it shows up as "associated" in the status
for the wifi card.
So anyway, I'm useing 1.2b6 cdrom, a netgear WAG311 pci A/B/G card
(AR5212 chip set), this is running on a pII system, and everything
else on the system is working great. Looking at the notes on both
ath(4) and ifconfig(8) I seem to have the sysctl stuff right too.
If there is anything I should be looking at/triing, that would help.
Also what will, if anything does the wireless section of thie app
show. Is this a panel to set wireless settings? Also if this ifconfig
cmd is a solution, how is it possible to place that in to xml file so
it survive re-boots.
Thanks for a great product.

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Household Survey Results
Specific Methodology
September 2000
Data collection for September 2000 Omnibus Household Survey began on September 6, 2000, and continued until September 12, 2000. Calls were placed between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time in all regions of the country. Approximately 75 interviewers were trained for the study. Data was collected from households in the U.S. using a random-digit-dialed telephone survey method. The final data set includes 1,017 completed cases and a total of 184 variables. Battelle collected the data under contract with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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Distribution of household telephone numbers by disposition categories is presented in Table 1 below. The number of household cases in each category was then used in the above formula to calculate an overall response rate of approximately 16 percent.
Table 1. Distribution of Household Cases by Disposition Code
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95-5 KLAQ ROX Motorcycle Monday!
I know, I know .. it was all about the superbowl this weekend; but that was Sunday. Saturday it was alllll about the California sun and a sold out Supercross crowd in Anaheim!
They were NOT dissapointed in Cali … a tough track with a little sand and a killer 11 bump straightaway. Most of the riders through it in 4 or 5 leaps.
In the Lites, it's Hansen again .. nice. The sun of an SX champ well on his way to getting his own championship as he takes center on the podium, besting Tomac and Roczen. Tickle down in 4th and Morais wayyyy down there. 7th!!
Supercross was insane …. Stewart takes the win in heat 1 thanks to a "meeting" .. if you will .. between Windham and Tedesco. Think they felt bad? NOBODY was feeling as bad as my boy Dungey. Ryan wins a heat, then winds up out of the main with a broken chain. He pushes his bike off the track and out of the running.
Meanwhile, the holy trinity (Stewart, Villapoto and Reed) virtually riding alone. It's insane how far out and away these guys are. With lap times running about 60 seconds, Stewart is 5 seconds ahead of Villopoto and he's an easy 8 seconds gone from Reed.
Nice to have a whole Supercross track to yourself huh??
Long story short, Bubba does it again! Followed by Villopoto and Reed … poor Dungey bringing up the rear, dead last.
The podium is Stewart, Villopoto, Reed … pointswise, it looks the same ……. Stewart with 117, Villopoto at 112 and Reed at 90. Dungey still a contender though with 79 points and over half a season to go. You never know what can happen in SX .. that's why I love it!
Lites podium = Hansen, Tomac and Roczen ……. points wise there, it's Hansen at 113, Tickle at 105 and Tomac at 91 for the top 3. LOTS of room there for lots of things to happen as Supercross '11 continues!! Next week it's Houston .. to find out more, and see pics from this week, visit Supercross.com and/or Racerxonline.com!
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A disoriented man in a burning house was saved after a single 911 call came in to report the fire early Saturday morning.
A neighbor called 911 at about 1 a.m. to report a house fire in the 700 block of West Florence Street near the intersection of North Oracle Road and West Miracle Mile.
"Dispatchers were able to relay this critical information to crews while they were responding," Capt. Chris Jurvig, spokesman for the Tucson Fire Department, said in a news release. "The first fire crew arrived five minutes later and found smoke and flames coming from a home.
"As the crew approached the house they could see an adult male inside the home with fire right behind him. Firefighters immediately forced open a security door and pulled the disorientated resident out. Paramedics on scene began to treat the patient while other firefighters took hose lines interior to attack the fire and search for other victims."
The first ladder company on the scene secured utilities and went to the roof where they cut a hole with a chainsaw.
"This allows smoke and other super-heated gasses to escape which makes the environment more tenable," Jurvig said.
It total, 30 firefighters from 10 units responded to the scene and had the blaze under control in 13 minutes.
The resident that was brought out by firefighters was the only occupant of the home and was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
The cause and origin of the fire are under investigation. Jurvig did not have a damage estimate.
More than half of residential fire deaths occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., Jurvig said.
"Knowing how to get out of the house two different ways can be the difference between life and death. Having a warning device is also critical for safety, make sure that you have working smoke alarms in your house," he said.


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To begin, Europe announced import tariffs of 11.8% , which the market took as favorable news. LDK, JinkoSolar ( JKS), ReneSola ( SOL), Yingli Green Energy ( YGE) and First Solar ( FSLR) either opened higher or traded higher during Thursday's trading session.
It appears LDK sellers took advantage of the pop in share price and sold into the news. LDK closed at $1.40 Thursday, just slightly above its $1.37 low point on the day. Shareholders have not been rewarded for their patience; the stock has fallen 15% in the last year, and the average analyst target price is $1.10. I can't think of a good reason to buy this stock. However, for investors who don't mind playing the Wall Street "Lotto," LDK can be treated like a stock option. In LDK's case, you're not losing time premium from an upcoming expiration date, but the negative cash flow that may lead to bankruptcy acts nearly the same. In a nutshell, LDK is in a race against the clock to reverse its losses. Invest accordingly. 52-Week Range: 71 cents to $2.36 Book Value: -$3.05 LDK Revenue Quarterly data by YCharts
At the time of publication the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned. Follow @RobertWeinstein This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.


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Join us for Camps Preview Day to discover a variety of camps from art, dance, sports, cooking and more from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the Vernon Street Town Square. Find out more.
Help support the Roseville Shop with a Cop program by purchasing River Cats tickets for the game on Thursday, May 15. A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to the Shop with a Cop program. In order for your ticket purchase to be donated to Shop with a Cop, enter promo code "Roseville PD" when purchasing tickets through River Cats ticketmaster.
Come down to Vernon Street Town Square from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14 to enjoy wine tasting provided by PaZa Vineyard & Winery, Wise Villa Winery, Bonitata Winery and Lone Buffalo. Enjoy live entertainment from Ava Lemert. A $5 entrance fee applies. Find out more.
Greener Gardens Tour & DIY ExpoMark your calendars for the 2014 Greener Gardens & DIY Tour from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the Roseville Utility Exploration Center. The self-guided Greener Gardens tour features ten local homes that showcase water-efficient gardens and the DIY Expo features River-Friendly Landscaping company and other landscaping experts. Find out more.
Serve Your Community: Commission Vacancies Now AvailableThe Roseville City Council is now accepting applications from citizens 18 or older residing within the City limits of Roseville interested in serving on the commissions. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30. Applications and information on each of the commissions may be obtained from the City Clerk's office at 311 Vernon Street, Roseville, or call 774-5356.
Life in the Fast Lane Band Comes to Vernon Street Town Square Come out to enjoy Eagles songs performed by Life in the Fast Lane at the inaugural Concerts on the Square. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert starts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at Vernon Street Town Square. Purchase food from local food trucks and enjoy spirits in the beer garden. Find out more.
Summer Reading Club Kick-Off PartyCome enjoy entertainment and crafts at the Vernon Street Town Square for the Summer Reading Club kick-off party from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Saturday, June 7. Find out more.
Poll Workers Needed for Elections DayThe Placer County Office of Elections is recruiting poll workers for the June 3, 2014 Election. Poll workers must be able to work on Election Day from 6 a.m. - 9 p.m. Find out more.
3rd Saturday Art WalkEnjoy "Night Out at the Museum" from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 17. Meet Native American artist Stan Padilla, who will talk about his new exhibit of book illustrations. Light refreshments will be available.Downtown & Historic Roseville local galleries and businesses keep their doors open for an evening reception from 7 - 10 p.m. on the 3rd Saturday of every month. See map for participating venues.
Roseville In the News
Placer County hopes to win tourism dollars with new sports complexesThe rise of elite youth sports and the popularity of year-round athletics have created an emerging market for participant and spectator spending in south Placer County, which has positioned itself as a major sports destination. Read full article.
Roseville police launch new property claim websiteThe new Roseville police website resembles a typical e-commerce marketplace, featuring a small photo and description of each item. What's missing is a price. Instead, residents can click "claim this item" to contact the department. Read full article.
Ongoing and Upcoming Events
Storytime and Wee One Wednesday at Vernon Street Town SquareHelp your child develop early literacy skills on Wednesdays at Vernon Street Town Square. Followed by Wee One Wednesday from 10 - 10:45 a.m. No registration required, space may be limited. Parent participation is required. Find out more.
Downtown Tuesday NightsMark your calendars every Tuesday Night from May 6 - July 29 for this family-fun event from 5 - 9 p.m. on Vernon Street in Downtown Roseville. The weekly event will feature live music, food, a kid's zone and a classic car show.
Fitness Classes Return to Vernon Street Town SquareEnjoy Yoga, Yang Tai Chi and Bootcamp fitness classes from April 1 - Aug. 28 at the Vernon Street Town Square. Participation fee is $5 per session, or purchase a fitness punch card to receive a discount. Classes are free for COR Fitness members. Find out more.
Join others this May by getting out of your car and riding your bike for commuting, recreation or fitness. Find out more.
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PG&E is proposing to replace approximately 3.1 linear miles of a gas pipeline (Line 123) located within Roseville between Woodcreek Oaks Boulevard and Foothills Boulevard beginning Monday, May 12. Find out more.
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Groves, C., Ghin, R., David, J.P.R. et al. (1 more author) (2003) Temperature dependence of impact ionization in GaAs. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 50 (10). pp. 2027-2031. ISSN 0018-9383
The temperature dependence of electron and hole impact ionization in gallium arsenide (GaAs) has been determined from photomultiplication measurements at temperatures between 20 K and 500 K. It is found that impact ionization is suppressed by increasing temperature because of the increase in phonon scattering. Temperature variations in avalanche multiplication are shown to decrease with decreasing avalanching region width, and the effect is interpreted in terms of the reduced phonon scattering in the correspondingly reduced ionization path length. Effective electron and hole ionization coefficients are derived and are shown to predict accurately multiplication characteristics and breakdown voltage as a function of temperature in p/sup +/in/sup +/ diodes with i-regions as thin as 0.5 /spl mu/m.
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I think that if a person or group of people were to get together $600 and buy (for example) a piano and then donate it to Noisebridge, that *would* be the donation of one (1) piano, for which that person or group of persons would receive aĀreceiptĀfrom our treasurer. ĀNote that this is different from *donating* $600 to Noisebridge, with the caveat that it be spent on a piano, which is how I would define an 'earmark.' Ā

I think we've always maintained a policy of not accepting conditional donations of any sort -- generally this means that if someone donates (for example) a piano to the space, we reserve the right to turn it into (for example) a giant robot or abstract wire-art piece; in the same vein, if someone were to donate $600, we would want to reserve the right to spend it on (for example) beer. ĀOr giant robot parts.

Which might include a piano, who knows.

I think that piano-people should feel free to buy and install a piano, sure in the knowledge that if the piano gets to be too annoying or remains an annoyingly unused space-occupier, it will likely be recycled as a giant robot or piece of abstract wire-art.

In short, I think that a piano would be awesome, provided that people are excellent in their approach to its use.

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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Andy Isaacson <email@example.com> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:14:12PM -0700, Christie Dudley wrote:
 > Oh, donations most especially can be earmarked!

People often group together to pool money towards a particular project,
 but that's not a "donation" per se -- the money never goes to the
 organization / corporation, lightening the load on our volunteer
 officers.

 So, no, *donations* (which are tax deductible as being for the benefit
 of a 501(c)3) are not "earmarked". ĀPeople buying things with their own
 money is not a donation in the 501(c)3 sense.

 (That's sorta the same thing you say in your next paragraph, but not
 precisely, so I wanted to clarify.)

 -andy

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By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – A controversial figure in Democratic Party fund-raising circles Monday night is hosting a California gala for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.
Laura Hartigan served as deputy to McAuliffe when he chaired the Democratic National Committee.
In 1998, Senate investigators alleged that Hartigan participated in efforts to swap party contributions with the Teamsters Union.
According to testimony and evidence obtained by the investigators, Hartigan gave Martin Davis, campaign consultant for Teamsters President Ron Carey, a memo instructing the union to make $236,000 in political contributions to various state Democratic parties around the country.
"The contributions were credited to McAuliffe on Democratic tally sheets that keep track of how much money fund-raisers bring in," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Feb. 20, 2001.
On March 19, 2001, The New Republic wrote that McAuliffe tried to "illegally launder contributions" through the DNC to Carey's campaign against James Hoffa for president of the Teamsters.
Under federal law, it is illegal to use union funds to pay union campaign expenses.
The Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs twice deposed McAuliffe, who also served as the Clinton-Gore '96 national finance chairman.
On June 6, 1997, McAuliffe testified that ''he didn't do anything with the Teamsters.''
On Sept. 18, 1997, when presented with specific evidence of his dealings with Davis, McAuliffe remembered a meeting in which Davis said he wanted to help raise money for the DNC from the Teamsters.
McAuliffe testified, however, that after this meeting, he passed Davis off to Hartigan and didn't deal with him again on this issue.
''I would tell you, to my knowledge, no one ever did anything. I know I never talked to anybody, I never talked to any donors. … All I know is when the first story or when the first stories on the Teamsters came out, I didn't have a clue about any of this.''
After McAuliffe declined to appear for a third round of questioning, the Senate committee concluded that "Terry McAuliffe and/or other officials of the DNC participated in efforts to engage in a contribution swap scheme with Martin Davis and Carey's campaign."
The committee recommended "further investigation" into the matter and urged Clinton's Department of Justice to get involved. But no action was taken.
Alexandra Shapiro, an organizer of McAuliffe's Monday night fund-raiser at West Hollywood's SoHo House, told Watchdog that the event would be "closed to the press." She declined to discuss McAuliffe's whereabouts.
The Hollywood Reporter calls SoHo House "a private club (that) has quickly ascended to the top of the food chain — mostly for its exclusivity. Like at an A-list commissary of Hollywood where table-hopping is the main course, everyone who is anyone is here."
The conservative America Rising PAC, which provided documentation for this report, blasted McAuliffe.
"Terry McAuliffe has a history of skirting the edges of campaign finance law, creating sweet deals for his friends and wealthy individuals looking to get access to power. The Teamsters swap scandal was one of the most vivid examples of this track record," said Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising.
"Terry might try to refashion his biography to try to be a more appealing candidate, but you can see from those funding his campaign that he's the same wheeler-dealer, political insider he's always been."
McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign has regularly tapped Southern California donors. Since 2012, the Virginia gubernatorial hopeful has raised more than $250,000 from the 90210 ZIP code, making Beverly Hills the campaign's fourth highest giving ZIP code, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
McAuliffe is the founder and former chairman of GreenTech Automotive. The company and its funding arm, Gulf Coast Funds Management, have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating their participation in the EB-5 visa-investor program.
Contact Kenric Ward at email@example.com or at (571) 319-9824. @Kenricward
- VA: As he runs for governor, McAuliffe wheels and deals electric cars in Mississippi
- VA: Media echo Watchdog exclusive on McAuliffe's electric car maneuvers
- No news here: PolitFact brands Terry McAuliffe's electric-car claim 'false'
- Experts question source of McAuliffe car-company funding
- Terry McAuliffe on business ventures: 'Some work, some don't'
- How McAuliffe's car company failed the Virginia test, landed in Mississippi
- Virginia official wants probe of McAuliffe company 'visa-for-sale' program
- McAuliffe car company sues Watchdog in libel claim
- Barack Obama's GreenTech connection: Rick Wade
- Silence, secrecy, cops follow GreenTech's China deal
- McAuliffe hones China's crony-capitalism model in U.S.
- Promises keep Tunica County afloat
- McAuliffe company's China hook-up: Will it work?
- McAuliffe car lags in Domino's delivery
- McAuliffe car co. parent in off-shore tax shelter
- Lawmaker gives feds one more week for EB-5 answers
- Bolling: McAuliffe's Mississippi package 'attractive'
- Inside, execs knew McAuliffe plan had 'substantial risk'
- Union darling McAuliffe and his non-union car company
- Did Clinton aid the birth of 'McAuliffe' car company?
- McAuliffe feels heat over GreenTech resignation
- TV report: One year later, 'party is over' at GreenTech
- Months after he said he left company, McAuliffe kept talking GreenTech
- Clinton connection: More money for McAuliffe
- Terry McAuliffe used loophole to avoid key SEC oversight of his car company
- VA officials: McAuliffe green car more politics than biz
- McAuliffe car company announces it's ready to roll — again
- Before Watchdog, McAuliffe blamed federal officials for money trouble
- McAuliffe gets cash from GreenTech exec, board members
- Watchdog report on McAuliffe spurs FOI request to Homeland Security
- McAuliffe leaves GreenTech questions hanging at debate
- Totally wired: McAuliffe went to Napolitano to expedite company funding
- McAuliffe bragged about GreenTech's cash position while begging feds for faster processing of 'cash for visas'
- Investigation targets Homeland official's relationship to McAuliffe company
- Even before news of federal probe, McAuliffe ducked GreenTech questions
- McAuliffe company pressed Homeland official on 81 investor visas
- Rodham company sought visa for controversial Chinese exec
- Immigration official says he met with McAuliffe to discuss visas for foreign investors
- Whiners: Mayorkas says Gulf Coast 'continues to complain'
- VIDEO: Ex-GreenTech employee says little happened at Horn Lake plant
- Online ad to Terry McAuliffe: Drop your lawsuit
- National security on 'hold': Lawmakers press McAuliffe for answers
- Citizens United documentary film delves into McAuliffe, GreenTech
- VIDEO: Terry McAuliffe's 15 million-square-foot car plant … in China
- Feds call McAuliffe car company's use of investment program 'possible fraud'
- GreenTech courted Obama's Solyndra aide
- GOP legislators call for McAuliffe to answer GreenTech questions
- McAuliffe 'desperate' over documentary, Citizens United says
- GreenTech weighed Fisker-style federal loan
- Group tells Terry: Follow 'McAuliffe Standard' on disclosure
- Car and Driver races into GreenTech controversy
- Congressman: McAuliffe owes Virginians explanation about White House meeting
- Feds loosen oversight as McAuliffe car company makes mysterious management change
- GreenTech execs use Times and ABC to throw McAuliffe under the (non-electric) bus
- Aide in union contribution swap hosts California fund-raiser for McAuliffe
- Despite denials, docs show McAuliffe company asked feds to fast-track visa for investor tied to spy list
- Former Democrat Party director was on GreenTech payroll
- More bad news for McAuliffe car company as GreenTech China venture stalls
- Clinton Foundation posts deficits on McAuliffe's watch
- VIDEO: GreenTech record dogs McAuliffe at energy forum
- Auto industry expert labels McAuliffe electric car 'preposterous'
- Democratic leaders have their own Bain pain in Mideast private equity deal
- Hillary PAC adviser served as GreenTech spokeswoman
- New emails add evidence McAuliffe pressed U.S. officials to approve GreenTech funding
- After endorsement, Post shrinks facts to cover Terry McAuliffe
- Ties that bind: Following the McAuliffe-Clinton money trail
- McAuliffe tilts at windmills; Chinese venture goes bust
- Federal investigations cast shadow over McAuliffe on Election Day
- DHS inspector over GreenTech-McAuliffe case is under investigation
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- Nuking filibusters, Dems clear way for Mayorkas at Homeland Security
- U.S. judge hands Watchdog a victory over VA governor's green-car company
- Attorney: McAuliffe is '100 percent divested' of GreenTech
- Investigation finds Mayorkas used visa program to help White House allies
- Criminal investigation sought in McAuliffe-Mayorkas dealings


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Trump National Golf Club
There simply isn't a better place in the world to hold the first annual Toby Tyler Golf Invitational than Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.
Designed by award winning architects architects Tom Fazio and Tom Fazio II, the Old Course at Trump National is rated among the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World with the New Course to follow suit.
The main clubhouse is a renovated 1930's Georgian Manor- contains several indoor and outdoor dining areas - perfect for such an elegant occasion as will be held on May 7, 2013. Don't miss out!
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Here is my take on Bittersweet Cocoa Almond Genoise. I made it for a New Year party at a friend's house.
I used a low fat cocoa (Ghirardelli). I took Julie's suggestion and used 75% of the cocoa and 25% of Schaffenberger unsweetened chocolate. The combo worked like a charm and the cake turned out wonderful.
For the filling, I wanted to make light whipped ganache. The ganache was overheated, started separating. Added some cream to fix it and it ended up being very very light whipped ganache, more like chocolate flavored whipped cream. It was wonderful. Fit perfectly with the cake as the cake was pretty rich.
The chocolate decoration is pretty easy to do. I got the inspiration from this blog. I followed instruction down to a T. The only deviation I did was that I apply the chocolate directly onto a cake, instead of forming it around the tin can, as Emma did.
I did not even temper the chocolate and it turned out good and help up throughout the 60 photos that I took and through the evening.
I'm really pleased with how the cake turned out. It didn't look like the mess that I torted.
And most importantly? My friends LOVED the cake. They all think it looks awesome and it tasted awesome.


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|Ishan Clemenco @ [2nd floor projects], San Francisco
|Dear (sm.)ART-Friends,
San Francisco-based artist
Ishan Clemenco
would like to invite you to visit his show
unlikely arrivals
June 7 - July 13, 2008
a three-person exhibition
with Nina Zurier and Susan Martin, which opens at Margaret Tedesco's space:
@ [2nd floor projects]
3740 25th Street, #205
San Francisco, CA 94110
Gallery hours: Sunday 12 - 5pm & by appointment
Phone: 415 824 2644
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 7, 2008
"The new work develops earlier concerns with compositional process of repetition and inversion, proportional ratios, arithmetical progressions and extended duration. I am interested in symmetries and oppositional permutations and the relationships of static and dynamic, elevation and weight, movement and repose. Methods of determination are informed by synchronicities and chance.
Parallel vertical lines in chalkline installations and drawings establish optical drones. The continuum of chalked lines snapped directly on walls utilizes a limited color scale of orange, pthalo blue, cobalt blue and white pastels, handground in mortar and pestle. Found chalkline vessels prepared for this work are gathered from use as traditional marking instruments. Their absolute verticality in suspended installation acquires an equilibrium realized in uncomplicated markings on walls.
I am working to transcend the theoretical matrix and technical processes through which a given work is shaped and evolves. This intention balances the concerns of the medium with an emotional response to life aspiring to be both contemplated and felt. The overall approach to my work is that of exploration and discovery, allowing an inevitable, open end."
Ishan Clemenco
For [ 2nd floor projects ] Ishan Clemenco will make a wall drawing on large opacified black Polaroid paper and may install several smaller works.
There will also be held a reading by BILL BERKSON
For the Heart of the Second Floor
(broadsheet, edition of 100)
On Sunday July 13, 4:30-6:30pm
[ 2nd floor projects ] is an artist-run project space.
Support for this project is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
Please note: Ishan will also have a work in an exhibition curated by Luis Camnitzer which will be installed in the entrance to the National Library of Spain in Madrid later this year - we will keep you informed.
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Use of Bisphosphonates in Patients With Metastatic Bone Disease
Use of Bisphosphonates in Patients With Metastatic Bone Disease
The urge to control the manifestations of incurable chronic diseases, such as the anemia, renal failure, and bony disease of myeloma and the bone disease of breast cancer, is understandable. Successful control of these disease manifestations greatly improves a patients quality of life. This is especially important since patients with either of these malignancies may live with the disease for 20 years or more. Considerable success has been achieved in the correction of anemia with erythopoietin (Epogen, Procrit), and simple hydration has reversed renal failure and improved the survival of patients with myeloma.[1] Anyone who has witnessed the frightening spasms of back pain in myeloma patients, precipitated by a sneeze or an attempt to turn over in bed, understands the dreadful fear that patients have of uncontrolled bone pain.
As Berenson and Lipton report, there have been many attempts to strengthen bone and relieve pain in myeloma and breast cancer patients with bisphosphonates. Oral therapy has been largely ineffective, probably because < 1% of the drug is absorbed. However, the clinical trials cited by Berenson and Lipton convincingly demonstrate that the intravenous administration of 90 mg of pamidronate (Aredia) every 4 weeks has reduced bone pain and the number of skeletal-related events in both myeloma and breast cancer patients, although the survival of patients with either malignancy has not been prolonged.
Bone Lesions in Myeloma and Breast Cancer Differ
Increased bone resorption and lytic bone lesions develop in patients with myeloma and breast cancer as a result of the release of osteoclast-activating cytokines by malignant cells and activated marrow stromal cells. Generalized osteoporosis frequently occurs in patients with myeloma and breast cancer, but the bone lesions differ strikingly. In myeloma, most bone lesions are purely lytic, visualized as "punched-out holes" on bone radiographs, with no sign of new bone formation or osteosclerosis. A few myeloma patients do develop sclerotic bone lesions in the polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin change (POEMS syndrome) version of myeloma,[2] but this syndrome is uncommon. In contrast, skeletal metastases in breast cancer patients always show a vigorous osteoblastic reaction.
Bisphosphonates are taken up preferentially in bone, where they remain until the bone is remodeled. Bisphosphonate treatment results in marked suppression of osteoclastic activity with two effects: (1) reduced bone resorption, and (2) a decrease in the amount of interleukin-6 (IL-6) produced by osteoclasts and, hence, less stimulation of myeloma growth
MGUS and Smoldering Myeloma
Clonal populations of plasma cells of at least 5 billion cells are present in subjects with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering myeloma. These clonal populations are stable, neither expanding nor contracting, and patients are asymptomatic for many years. However, these patients are at increased risk of progressing to a lymphoplasmacytic malignancy, usually myeloma (1% to 2% progress per year). Starting treatment early during the asymptomatic phase does not improve the response rate or survival of asymptomatic patients[3]; therefore, chemotherapy is not indicated until disease progression leads to the development of signs or symptoms.
Since pamidronate has been reported to induce apoptosis in myeloma cells,[4] and suppress the production of the myeloma growth factor IL-6,[5] treatment with this agent has the potential to both inhibit tumor growth and prolong survival. Furthermore, in his editorial heralding the initial report of the intravenous pamidronate study,
Bataille[6] noted that there is evidence of increased bone destruction early in the course of plasma cell neoplasia, even in patients with asymptomatic MGUS. He proposed that ".... these results suggest that bisphosphonates should be started very early, probably in all patients--not only because of their beneficial skeletal effects, but also because they slow tumor growth." I do not know whether early pamidronate is beneficial. Clinical trials will have to decide that issue. However, jumping the gun, like Bataille has done, is more akin to wishful thinking than good medicine. Pamidronate therapy is expensive; we should not add this cost to our already overburdened health-care system before well-designed clinical trials determine whether it is useful and safe.
1. MacLennan ICM, Falconer Smith JF, Crockson RA, et al: Analysis and management of renal failure in fourth MRC myelomatosis trial: MRC working party on leukemia in adults. Br J Med 288:1411-1416, 1984.
2. Bergsagel DE, Pruzanski W: Syndromes and special presentations associated with plasma cell neoplasia, in Wiernik PH, Canellos GP, Kyle RA, et al: Neoplastic Diseases of the Blood, 2nd ed. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1991.
3. Hjorth M, Hellquist L, Holmberg E, et al: Initial vs deferred melphalan-prednisone therapy for asymptomatic multiple myeloma stage I: A randomized study. Eur J Haematol 50:95-102, 1993.
4. Aparicio A, Gardner A, Tu Y, et al: In vitro cytoreductive effects on multiple myeloma cells induced by bisphosphonates. Leukemia 12:220-229, 1998.
5. Savage AD, Belson DJ, Vescio RA, et al: Pamidronate reduces IL-6 production by bone-marrow stroma from multiple myeloma. Blood 88:409, 1996.
6. Bataille R: Management of myeloma with bisphosphonates. N Engl J Med 334:529-530, 1996.


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Colorado tick fever is a viral infection spread by the bite of the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni).
Mountain tick fever; Mountain fever; American mountain fever
This disease is usually seen between March and September. Most cases occur in April, May, and June.
Colorado tick fever is seen most often in Colorado, especially in campers. The disease is much less common in the rest of the United States.
Symptoms of Colorado tick fever most often start 3 to 6 days after the tick bite. A sudden fever continues for 3 days, goes away, then comes back 1 to 3 days later for another few days. Other symptoms include:
The health care provider will examine you and ask about your signs and symptoms. If the provider suspects you have the disease, you will also be asked about your outdoor activity.
Blood tests will usually be ordered. Antibody tests can be done to confirm the infection. Other blood tests may include:
There are no specific treatments for this viral infection.
The provider will make sure the tick is fully removed from the skin.
You may be told to take a
If complications develop, treatment will be aimed at controlling the symptoms.
Colorado tick fever usually goes away by itself and is not dangerous.
Complications may include:
Call your provider if you or your child develop symptoms of this disease, if symptoms worsen or do not improve with treatment, or if new symptoms develop.
When walking or hiking in tick-infested areas, wear closed shoes, long sleeves, and tuck long pants into socks to protect the legs. Wear light-colored clothing, which shows ticks more easily than darker colors, making them easier to remove.
Check yourself and your pets frequently. If you find ticks, remove them immediately by using tweezers, pulling carefully and steadily. Insect repellent may be helpful.
Meagher KE, Decker CF. Other tick-borne illnesses: tularemia, Colorado tick fever, tick paralysis. Dis Mon. 2012;58:370-376. PMID: 22608124 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22608124.
Traub SJ, Cummins GA. Tick-borne diseases. In: Auerbach PS. Wilderness Medicine. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 51.
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Soulja Boy Is a Zombie Party Animal in Rock Video — Watch
Want to see dead Soulja Boy come to life in a morgue freezer? In the third part of Converse's Three Artists, One Song campaign, the tattooed rapper collaborates with indie duo Matt & Kim and party-rocker Andrew W.K. by lending his rhymes and acting talents to the track and visuals for 'I'm a Goner.' The gruesome clip features bloody, dismembered, eye-dripping corpses, mysteriously re-animated and living it up with some head-bumping and cannibalistic macking.
Soulja Boy — his face is conveniently encrusted in morgue freezer burn, so we can't tell whether he's gotten any of those facial tattoos removed — enjoyed mixing sounds (and guts) into the up-beat motley crew brew's grizzly clip. Check it out and join the zombie party.
"We just wanted to make something catchy, that would make the people want to sing to and party to, to bring all the different musical genres together, and create a dope visual too," Soulja Boy tells Rolling Stone. "I'm big fans of Matt and Kim and Andrew W.K., and I was surprised to hear they were fans of mine as well, so it was like a super party in the studio. There was just a powerful energy when we all got together, and everyone just brought their own creativity to the table."
"My style is very different," he says, and that's not just because he's the first hip hop artist to take part in the project. "It's retro, it's anime, it's manga, it's art. It's very out of the box, almost out of space – like I came from a different planet. I don't follow the trends, I set them. I like to be completely different from everyone else, and of course swagged out from top to bottom."
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A Red, Red Rose
"A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem.
The poem[edit]
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in june;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune:
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only Luve
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
Origins of the song[edit]
Burns worked for the final ten years of his life on projects to preserve traditional Scottish songs for the future. In all, Burns had a hand in preserving over 300 songs for posterity, the most famous being "Auld Lang Syne". He worked on this project for James Johnson's the Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803) and for George Thomson's five-volume A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice. Burns had intended the work to be published as part of Thomson's selection. However, he wrote to a friend that Thomson and he disagreed on the merits of that type of song. "What to me appears to be the simple and the wild, to him, and I suspect to you likewise, will be looked on as the ludicrous and the absurd."[1]
Instead, Burns gave the song to Scots singer Pietro Urbani who published it in his Scots Songs. In his book, Urbani claimed the words of The Red Red Rose were obligingly given to him by a celebrated Scots poet, who was so struck by them when sung by a country girl that he wrote them down and, not being pleased with the air, begged the author to set them to music in the style of a Scots tune, which he has done accordingly.[2] In other correspondence, Burns referred to it as a "simple old Scots song which I had picked up in the country."[3]
The lyrics of the song are simple but effective. "My luve's like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June" describe a love that is both fresh and long lasting. David Daiches in his work describes Burns as "the greatest songwriter Britain has produced" for his work in refurbishing and improving traditional Scots songs including "Red, Red Rose" which he described as a "combination of tenderness and swagger."[4]
Musical performances[edit]
Dennis O'Neill (tenor), Ingrid Surgenor (piano)
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Urbani published the song to an original tune that he wrote. The song appeared in Johnson's Museum in 1797 to the tune of Niel Gow's "Major Graham" which was the tune that Burns wanted. In 1799, it appeared in Thomson's Scottish Airs set to William Marshall's Wishaw's Favourite with the lyric "And fare thee weel awhile" changed.
The song became more popular when Robert Archibald Smith paired it with the tune of "Low Down in the Broom" in his Scottish Minstrel book in 1821. This has become the most popular arrangement. The song has been widely performed by a range of artists in the 20th and 21st centuries including Jean Redpath, Pat Boone, Kenneth McKellar, the Fureys, Eddi Reader, Camera Obscura, Eva Cassidy, Izzy, and Ronnie Browne of the Corries (in his solo album after Roy Williamson's death, 'Scottish Love Songs'(1995)).
Robert Schumann composed a setting of a German translation of Burns's poem in 1840.
Singer and actor Pat Boone performed the song on piano in the 1959 film adaptation of A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Modern choral arrangements include a four-part, a cappella version by David Dickau, an intimate, Irish folk music-influenced setting, also SATB a cappella, by Matthew Brown ("A Red, Red Rose," published by Santa Barbara Music), an accompanied SATB setting by James Mulholland as well as a broader version by American composer René Clausen. Clausen's arrangement incorporates a piano, two violins, and a four-part chorus. (SATB) A Swedish translation and recording named "Min älskling (du är som en ros)" was made famous by the renowned Swedish musician Evert Taube.
Carly Simon sang a solo version of "A Red, Red Rose" on the album The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children that she produced with her sister Lucy Simon. A version of Oh My Love is like a Red, Red Rose by Italian singer Ariella Uliano was performed with classical guitar accompaniment on the album Leave Only Your Footsteps Behind.
The lyrics are included in the song "Final Breath" by the post rock band Pelican on their album What We All Come to Need.
Moscow-based indie rock band "Red Red Rose" derives its name from the poem and has a song called "RRR" inspired by the poem.
When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, American singer songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns' 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, as the lyrics that have had the biggest effect on his life.[1][2]
The song is highly evocative, including lines describing rocks melting with the sun, and the seas running dry. Burns may have been inspired by the concept of deep time put forward a few years earlier by geologist James Hutton in his Theory of the Earth in 1789 [3] .[4] Hutton and Burns were contemporaries, and would have mixed in similar circles in Edinburgh.[3]
External links[edit]
- ^ letter from Burns to Alexander Cunningham, cited in The Burns Encyclopedia article on Pietro Urbani
- ^ Urbani in "Scots Songs" Burns Encyclopedia op. cit.
- ^ letter from Burns to Alexander Cunningham 1794 Burns Encyclopedia op. cit.
- ^ David Daiches, British Writers Volume 3 British Council 1980 pages 310-323
- Digitised copy of A red red rose in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, printed between 1787 and 1803, from National Library of Scotland. JPEG, PDF, XML versions.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 109: Eighteenth-Century British Poets, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by John Sitter, Emory University. The Gale Group, 1991. pp. 33–54.
- Robert Burns encyclopedia article on Pietro Urbani containing the history of the song
- Allmusic.com song search for Red, Red Rose [5] and "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" [6]
- David Daiches, British Writers Volume 3 British Council 1980 pages 310-323 Scribner Writers Series
- Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg (editors) The Canongate Burns 2003 pages 412-413 ISBN 1-84195-380-6
- David Daiches, Robert Burns Spurbooks Edinburgh 1981 ISBN 0-7157-2093-7
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- ^ Simpson, Richard (2008-10-05). "Bob Dylan names Scottish poet Robert Burns as his biggest inspiration". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
Bob Dylan has named his own greatest inspiration as the Scottish poet Robert Burns. The American singer-songwriter was asked to say which lyric or verse has had the biggest effect on his life. He selected the 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, which is often published as a poem, penned by the man regarded as Scotland's national poet.
- ^ Michaels, Sean (2008-10-06). "Bob Dylan: Robert Burns is my biggest inspiration". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
Dylan has revealed his greatest inspiration is Scotland's favourite son, the Bard of Ayrshire, the 18th-century poet known to most as Rabbie Burns. Dylan selected A Red, Red Rose, written by Burns in 1794.
- ^ a b "A Red, Red Rose". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ^ "Geography Lessons". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2015-01-25.


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Janus vs. Soulicit – Cage Match
After a hard-fought battle between Foxy Shazam and former Hollywood Undead vocalist Deuce, Foxy Shazam pulled out their fifth consecutive Cage Match win – earning 'I Like It' a spot in our Cage Match Hall of Fame.
With Foxy Shazam celebrating their victory, this leaves us two open spots to fill for today's Cage Match. Two fresh acts are set to enter the Cage Match with the goal of joining Foxy Shazam and others in the Hall of Fame.
Chicago alt rock band Janus have recently been making their presence known on active rock radio with the track 'Stains.' The song is the first single from their upcoming 2012 full-length album 'Nox Aeris.'
Facing Janus in today's Cage Match will be fellow American hard rock band Soulicit. The group enters with the track 'Hell Yeah' from their 2011 release, 'Parking Lot Rockstar.'
Who will come out with the victory in this week's Cage Match? Vote for your favorite track in the poll below:
Listen to Janus, 'Stains'
Listen to Soulicit, 'Hell Yeah'
Rules of Cage Match:
There are no rules … except this one: If a song remains the reigning champ for five straight cage matches, it is retired to the Loudwire Cage Match Hall of Fame. With so many great songs out there, we have to give other bands a chance!


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Remakes, love them or hate them, they sell. And while technically a prequel and not a remake, at times you wonder if the message got passed on to anyone on set. Chronicling the events leading up to the 1982 film of the same name, we get to see the titular Thing extracted from the Antarctica ice before, and I don't think it's a spoiler to say, chaos ensues. Bloody, messy chaos.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is on familiar ground here, as when she tries to convince her crewmates that they are in trouble with a capital T, the indifference she's met with until blood starts flying is all too similar to her role in Final Destination 3. However, she manages to pull of a fairly convincing scientist, even if the writing or dialogue doesn't always help, occasionally making large jumps based on relatively little evidence. It's also nice to see Norwegians on film being played by actual Norwegians, even if some seem there just to raise the body count and others just to ensure continuity with the original material.
The biggest surprise though is probably just how well continuity matches up, with so many subtle nods to the original material and several scenes seemingly lifted straight from it. Dialogue modernised, sets and effects polished up and then boxed off and sent to cinemas. If you remember much of the first film, you'll find little new here to surprise you. Not unusual for a prequel, but the extent to which some elements are copied seems a little excessive. It's like the same film, but with more exposition in the beginning, more modern special effects and less ambiguity, which to me was one of the best features of the original.
That's not to say there's nothing new here. There's more beautiful cinematography, especially of the frequent flames shown throughout, more exposition on the discovery of the alien and as mentioned the effects have been shined up nice for the 21st century. A scene around the spaceship we could have done without, but it was something new. The question is whether these updates were worth the lack of ambiguity in the original and the more defined characters, and I'd have to say no. So while this was an entertaining film and something a little different in a saccharine filled Christmas film season, it could have been so much more.
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Nivea trumps Creme de la mer!(80 Posts)
Ok, this is just one persons experience
I have used creme de la mer. Didnt repurchase as I didn't notice any difference. I was gifted two La Prairie creams which cost hundreds, they didnt do anything either.
I am pushing 50, over the years I haven't found any difference between a cheap or expensive moisturiser. I do like to try new ones and like a moisturiser that feels nice to use.
Not used Nivea for years but remember buying Ponds in my twenties and daubing it on in a thick layer for fifteen minutes before I applied make up and went out and my skin was perfect.
May have to try Nivea again.
I use that nivea blue lard stuff at night. It is really good as my skin got really dry after I hit 40.
I'm not sure it would've been great in my 20's when I was more oily.
My granny always used the blue nivea cream. Because of that, she always had a slightly sticky face. But not as many wrinkles as the other 90-year olds in the area.
I don't rate creme de la mer much - having read this from Paula Begoun, I don't really see why it would have to be so expensive: www.paulaschoice.com/beautypedia-skin-care-reviews/by-brand/la-mer/_/Creme-De-La-Mer
I spend alot on products and make up, but I swear by Nivea in the blue pot.
Nivea Soft is nicer than the really thick stuff in the blue pot. But there is no spf in it, so you have to mix some of that in as you go. I find being on the fat side helps enormously in the quest to remain wrinkle-free .
Astral in the slightly lighter blue pot is not as thick and gloopy as blue nivea but does the same job for the same price.
I've used it on my neck and on my face every few days for yeeeears.
I'm 57 with skin that's in pretty good condition and I agree with what Eliza said up-thread. Moisturize, yes and use a sunscreen but I really don't think it makes any difference how much you spend on a product - aren't they all mostly oil and water anyway? I would say that giving up smoking and sunbathing are far more effective than a tiny pot of slap with a stupid name.
Also, wrinkles aren't the only sign of ageing. Personally, I think the way my face is beginning to droop and sag is far worse than a few lines
I second the recommendation for Jurlique. Sublime, luxe products. I used to buy them when I lived in Australia and loved them. It might be time to revisit them.
I keep Nivea blue pots around the place, but find it a but sticky for it to be a favourite above others. It's just heap enough to keep on the pram etc in case you need some cream for hands, legs etc and forgot to apply at home.
Eliza you look fab but imho it's because you have good sharon stone-type bone structure that makes you age well. No amount of skincare would stop baggy cheeks on someone with low cheekbones
like me
Yes, you look fantastic Eliza!
I think the way your skin turns out is 50% genetic, 40% lifestyle and 10% potions and lotions. I'll always love my potions and lotions though.
I use Nivea (or Astral) at night, and Aldi day cream with spf15 (I think it's 15 anyway, can't be bothered to check) and my skin looks very good for someone in their mid forties - even if I do say so myself .
I'd second Eliza - not smoking and using a high SPF in the sun will do your skin more good than any CdlM cream (I also drink very little alcohol and make sure I exercise through the week, maybe that helps too?)
Mintyy - they say that at some point in your life you have to choose between your arse and your face- I choose face!
I think it IS mostly down to genes, say 60%. After that, it's sun protection, not smoking, some exercise and some goose fat (moisturiser of your choice). Laura Mercier Oil Free Tinted Moisturiser helps too And bone structure? I always had a really round face but as I've gotten older, it's lengthened to reveal cheek bones. My chin'll be round my naval in ten years time!
I've bought me some Nivea today though (baaa baaaaa)
Dr Sam Bunting (who's a proper dermatologist) said she caved and bought a pot of creme de la mer when it first came out, and that it made absolutely no difference whatsoever to her skin. It's just a moisturiser and all moisturisers do roughly the same job, ie forming a barrier on the skin to seal in moisture.
The only thing that really works on a cellular level and makes any significant difference to the appearance of skin is retinoic acid. And to be able to buy it at sufficient levels to really make a difference, you need a prescription. Which just goes to show, if something really works it gets made into a pharmaceutical!
Having said that, you can buy products with up to 2% retinol in them over the counter. Retinol is not the same as retinoic acid, but once on the skin, it goes through some metabolic stages and some is converted into retinoic acid. What retinoic acid does is speed up cell turnover and encourage collagen production, quite literally making skin look and act younger. It was originally used as a treatment for acne, but then doctors noticed that with long term use it was also eliminating fine lines and minimising wrinkles in the patients they prescribed it to.
Mega expensive moisturisers are a total rip off. Moisturiser is moisturiser is moisturiser. If you want to see a real difference in your skin you need to be applying real active ingredients.
I agree Fuckit- I use moisturiser purely to seal in the stuff I've put on earlier. Although that earlier stuff is probably a rip off!
I do use Retin-A however. On nights when I use that, I don't moisturise anyway.
Dr Haushka says dont moisturise at night. Allow your skin to correct itself. Slapping on rich moisturisers delays this process leading to blocked pores, excess oil etc. I guess it makes sense (?) but I'm not sure what you do if you have very dry, parchment skin.
It's all hocus pocus, I think! I do know that I had too much wine last night and look every one of my 50+ years this morning.
I regret nothing
I thought I'd posted on this thread yesterday but apparently not!
I'm early 50's.
My favourite moisturiser is Astral. I use it around my eyes too sometimes, especially when travelling as it saves me taking two pots of stuff.
I tried CdlM 10 years ago and it did nothing.
Over the last decade I've gradually used cheaper products, working my way 'down' to Astral.
If they stop making Astral I'll go back to Neal's Yard Frankincense, but will grit my teeth forking out £25 a pot for it.
I'm now saving my money for retin-a/retinoids, looking for good glycolic acid product, and botox or fillers. Because I think they are the only products that work to help with anti ageing.
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Mango, it was a lifestyle change (divorce) that initially forced me to cut down way back on my spending on toiletries/cosmetics. I used to use high end everything, and was known by my first name in Space NK in the Trafford Centre
I really have found cheaper substitutes for almost everything I use and they are equal to - if not better than - the expensive products.
Creme de la Mer used to make a fabulous cream foundation in a pot. It was £65 back in 2006. Even during the time I was skint, I still found a way to buy it because nothing equalled it. Then it was discontinued. I've never found anything as good as that so would still be using it if I could.
I still use Hypnose mascara because for me nothing comes close.
So I don't mind spending the money if it's justified.
I spent ten years working in the beauty industry. 7 years for clinique and 3 years for chanel.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people who work in these companies, who get 65% discount (I did when I worked for them) and STILL opt to use nivea and astral creams. Including me. And max factor make up, especially mascara.
Some things are just really, really good.
But honestly, high spf, lots of water and removing all make up carefully at night is probably the best anyone can do for their skin.
Hessian- you can get NY Frankincense for about £16 on ebay.
I agree that NYF does work. I think a lot of lotions and potions work temporarily, which is fine.....temporarily. I had a pot of L'Occitane Divine Cream (£69 and won the anti-aging bible award) which was fabulous for a week or so, but I can honestly say after finishing the pot, no real difference.
I do the glycolic acid peel thingy (30%) not religiously, but every couple of weeks, and I do notice a difference to the surface of the skin (again, cheap as chips from a seller on ebay) Also using a hyaluronic acid serum at night which is nice (and ebay cheap) and Protect and Perfect serum in the morning. None of which cost much compared to the over-packaged, over-advertised stuff.
Still, remember that in a blind test the Aldi £3.99 serum came out better than 2,000 others!
Fairylea- can you confirm or deny then that Bourjois is Chanel without the fancy boxes and ads? MN rumour has had is is so for years!
Eliza! Hello! It's me! NotTreadingGrapes from the aging thread!
Something else I am currently in love with- all over again and not just because of the nostalgic smell which takes me back to 1987- Body Shop Vitamin E cream, but the intense version now. T'is lovely.
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I think one of the best anti-ageing tricks is a good hair cut. Now that, in my opinon, is worth spending money on! Also stop wearing black ladies - it puts years on most of you.
Mango- well MN rumour has it, Bourjois is the same as Chanel!
(I have yet to find a fake n 19 that matches up though! Although I have found a fake YSL Rive Gauche) (I do like my retro 80s stuff )
Bourjois does indeed make chanel make up.
Both brands do the double bake eyeshadow technology....meaning if you ever drop it they are unlikely to break.
Some of the colours are identical. Some are created especially for each brand.
Estee lauder has a huge monopoly over the industry. They may not own chanel but they own many, many of the premium brands including mac, Bobbi brown, clinique and others. Well worth a Wiki
I bought some Bourjois rouge edition lipsticks over the summer, and they were certainly as good as any high end ones I've had, and I am a total convert to Health Mix.
I used Bourjois makeup way back when (along with the Body Shop stuff) I used to love something called Blanc de Base which they don't do anymore, but am guessing was a primer/face base way before its time.
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