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Lifehacker takes a look at the ease with which you can make your Fedora 9 installation live on a USB thumb drive. You do not need Linux installed to do it (there is a Windows program), any files you already have on the drive will remain untouched, and any tweaks and settings you make will be saved for the next time you boot up. It takes three clicks to create such a system, and Lifehacker is enthusiastic about the whole concept.
Monkey_bites is also thrilled with the live USB concept, but also details another interesting improvement in Fedora 9: PackageKit. "Fedora 9 introduces a nice upgrade to PackageKit which allows you to treat all your updates the same whether they're RPG, UM or Apt," they state, "There's also a new feature that detects when you're missing a piece of software needed to open a file. PackageKit will pop up a window offering to install what you need (provided there's a free software package available)."
Linux.com has a longer review, and they conclude:

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Hi all, could somebody tell me what are the different between nf7-s ver1.x adn ver2.0. How to recognised them?
Did you check the A-Bit Website ?
links for the manual.. etc there..
the revision number is usually to do with upgrades.. hardware that is.. repositioned parts that sort of thing ,, but check the errata and faqs on that link..
The NF7-S, based on nForce2 chipset (MCP-T + SPP), supports the latest AMD Athlon XP processors with 200/266/333/400 FSB, (400 FSB support in version 2.0 only) and features new dual 400MHz DDR memory controllers that deliver up to a 50% increase in bandwidth. With the nForce2 MCP-T, the APU (Audio Processing Unit) delivers Dolby Digital 5.1 cinematic-quality sound and 3D positional audio to your home PC. By SoundstormTM technology, the NF7-S supports Real-time audio encoding delivering up to 256 simultaneous audio streams makes games and applications come to life. With cutting-edge features and ABIT Engineering, the NF7 series is the ultimate multimedia platform for the world.
Found on the above link
Ain't Google Great!!
"Consumer technology now exceeds the average persons ability to comprehend how to use it..give up hope of them being able to understand how it works." - Me http://www.cybercrypt.co.nr
Before installing the Nforce drivers make sure you got the latest and stable ones, cause there seem to be problems with some driver releases from Nvidia.
Also don't forget to use 2 x the same mem modules otherwise you will loose the dual channel benefit of your Nforce2 mobo... but you probably knew all that
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CANANDAIGUA � There will be a new Ward 1 City Council member after the Nov. 5 election. The race features an interesting dynamic � youth versus experience.
Republican Ryan Zanghi, 24, the general manager at the Green Front Restaurant on Niagara Street, is seeking a seat on council for the first time. He went to college with the idea of getting into the health care profession, but soon decided he wanted to work in the restaurant business. He started employment at Eric�s Office Restaurant, in Canandaigua, when he was 15.
In contrast, Zanghi�s competition will be a new and old face.
Democrat Nicholas �Nick� Cutri, 66, has 12 years of experience on City Council; however, he last served in 2000. He said he decided to run again for a number of reasons, including discussions he has had with his neighbor � Mayor Ellen Polimeni. Additionally, Cutri worked for the Canandaigua city school district as the facilities director for 18 years.
Current Ward 1 councilman David Whitcomb is running for an at-large seat this year, which opened up the Ward 1 race.
According to the 2013 city budget, City Council members received a salary of $4,735 this year. City Council is a two-year position.
Meet the candidates Ryan Zanghi
Q. What do you think is the single biggest issue facing Canandaigua in the next four years?
A. I feel that the biggest issue facing this city in the next four years will without doubt be the impending North Shore project as well as the development of the new hotel. This development has the potential to either really help or really hurt this city.
Q. Why are you running for City Council?
A. I am running for City Council because I love this community. I feel that as a business operator downtown that my perspective will represent not only my neighbors but also my fellow merchants here in Canandaigua.
Q. Why are you the best choice to serve on City Council?
A. I feel that I am the best choice for this seat because I have a completely fresh perspective, and have no involvement with the current politicians of City Council. I will stand up for what I believe is best for the city, and best for future generations.
Nick Cutri
Q. What do you think is the single biggest issue facing Canandaigua in the next four years?
A. The proposed lakefront projects as well as the projects being developed and proposed in the town will create a significant issue for our city. Our community as a whole is growing in structure and population. Whether it is in the city or the town this growth will negatively impact our current level of city services.
All city departments will be affected and it will be the City Council�s responsibility to propose and manage a budget that is affordable while providing the level of city services that our residents currently enjoy.
Q. Why are you running for City Council?
A. Love of this community is the main reason. I previously served this wonderful city as the Ward 1 representative on the City Council from 1988-2000.
Q. Why are you the best choice to serve on City Council?
A. I have experience in the budget process as a council member and have the reputation of one who always worked hard to maintain affordability. I believe in open government and as a retired individual I am available at all times to listen to and discuss any residents� concerns.


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Committee Opinion Number 653, February 2016
(Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Although there are many positive aspects of social media for adolescents and young adults, there are also risks. Adolescence is a time of significant developmental changes, during which adolescents exhibit a limited capacity for self-regulation and an increased risk of susceptibility to peer pressure and experimentation. Social media can be harmful, and obstetrician–gynecologists may screen their adolescent and young adult patients for high-risk sexual behaviors, especially if sexualized text communication (sexting), exposure to pornography, online dating, or other risk-taking behav...
Committee Opinion Number 642, October 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 450, December 2009) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Unintended pregnancy persists as a major public health problem in the United States. Although lowering unintended pregnancy rates requires multiple approaches, individual obstetrician–gynecologists may contribute by increasing access to contraceptive implants and intrauterine devices. Obstetrician–gynecologists should encourage consideration of implants and intrauterine devices for all appropriate candidates, including nulliparous women and adolescents. Obstetrician–gynecologists should adopt best practices for long-acting reversible contraception insertion. Obstetrician–gynecologis...
Committee Opinion Number 627, March 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 425, January 2009, Reaffirmed 2017)
ABSTRACT: Unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants are less likely than other residents of the United States to have health insurance. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long supported a basic health care package for all women living within the United States without regard to their country of origin or documentation. Providing access to quality health care for unauthorized immigrants and their children, who often were born in the United States and have U.S. citizenship, is essential to improving the nation's public health.
Committee Opinion Number 624, February 2015
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ABSTRACT: Cytology-based cervical cancer screening programs require a number of elements to be successful. Certain low-resource settings, like the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, lack these elements. Implementing alternative cervical cancer screening strategies in low-resource settings can provide consistent, accessible screening opportunities.
Committee Opinion Number 619, January 2015
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ABSTRACT: Obesity is a serious problem worldwide and particularly in the United States, and in women is associated with an increased risk of death and morbid conditions (including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnea, and hypercholesterolemia) as well as malignancies such as endometrial and postmenopausal breast cancer. Adverse effects after gynecologic surgery, such as surgical site infection, venous thromboembolism, and wound complications, are more prevalent in obese women than in normal-weight women. Preoperative consultation with an anesthesiologist should be consider...
Committee Opinion Number 600, June 2014
ABSTRACT: Rates of obesity in the United States have increased rapidly over the past several decades, and physicians should be prepared to care for obese patients in a nonjudgmental manner, being cognizant of the medical, social, and ethical implications of obesity. It is the responsibility of the physician to recognize the medical risks that are associated with obesity and to counsel the patient regarding these risks in an unbiased manner, respecting her autonomy and maintaining her dignity. Classifying obesity as a medical condition can serve to reduce bias toward obese patients and to chan...
Committee Opinion Number 590, March 2014
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ABSTRACT: Patient care emergencies may occur at any time in any setting, particularly the inpatient setting. It is important that obstetrician–gynecologists prepare themselves by assessing potential emergencies, establishing early warning systems, designating specialized first responders, conducting emergency drills, and debriefing staff after actual events to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. Having such systems in place may reduce or prevent the severity of medical emergencies.
Committee Opinion Number 535, August 2012
ABSTRACT: Increasing numbers of women and adolescent females are incarcerated each year in the United States and they represent an increasing proportion of inmates in the U.S. correctional system. Incarcerated women and adolescent females often come from disadvantaged environments and have high rates of chronic illness, substance abuse, and undetected health problems. Most of these females are of reproductive age and are at high risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Understanding the needs of incarcerated women and adol...
Committee Opinion Number 516, January 2012
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ABSTRACT: Underserved women are those who are unable to obtain quality health care by virtue of barriers created by poverty, cultural differences, race or ethnicity, geography, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other factors that contribute to health care inequities. With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Public Law 111–148 and 152, there is promise for increased health insurance coverage for underserved women. There is concern, however, that specific populations of underserved women may be left out. These women must continue to have access to existing safety net...
Committee Opinion Number 515, January 2012
ABSTRACT: Sixty percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women live in metropolitan areas. Most are not eligible for health care provided by the federal Indian Health Service (IHS). The IHS partly funds 34 Urban Indian Health Organizations, which vary in size and services. Some are small informational and referral sites that are limited even in the scope of outpatient services provided. Compared with other urban populations, urban American Indian and Alaska Native women have higher rates of teenaged pregnancy, late or no prenatal care, and alcohol and tobacco use in pregnancy. Their infan...
Committee Opinion Number 466, September 2010
ABSTRACT: International humanitarian medical efforts provide essential services to patients who would not otherwise have access to specific health care services. The Committees on Ethics and Global Women's Health of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists encourage College Fellows and other health care professionals to participate in international humanitarian medical efforts for this reason. However, such programs present Fellows with a unique set of practical and ethical challenges. It is important for health care providers to consider these challenges before participating i...
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Why I teach - George D. Olsen, M.D., Professor Emeritus
Six members of the School of Medicine faculty were recognized by their peers in 2012 for excellence in teaching. This Q&A series profiles each of the recipients and asks the question, "Why do you teach?"
February 11, 2013
January's Q&A features George Olsen, M.D., a professor emeritus in the department of physiology & pharmacology.
Dr. Olsen attended Dartmouth and Harvard medical schools, and received his M.D. in 1966. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oregon Medical School (precursor to OHSU) in 1970.
Prior to his retirement in 2012, his main areas of teaching encompassed fetal, neonatal and maternal pharmacology, the pharmacology of aging and opioid analgesic pharmacology. During his career, Dr. Olsen's research involved the maternal, fetal and neonatal effects of opioid and cocaine abuse and the consequences for breathing control in children and adults.
You can learn more about Dr. Olsen's education, courses taught and research at the end of this Q&A.
Q&A With GEORGE OLSEN, M.D.
Why did you first become attracted to an academic career?
The stimulus for my interest came from my many excellent and helpful teachers from grade school through high school and then on to college and medical school. In high school I had an outstanding teacher of chemistry, Mr. Townes, who got me seriously interested in science as a profession. In college I had a great piano teacher, Mrs. Hoffman-Behrendt, who had a personal link to some of the great musicians and teachers of the past. In medical school, Professor Gosselin, a superb teacher of pharmacology, stimulated my interest in combining my love of chemistry and my interest in the basic medical sciences, especially pharmacology.
Why do you teach?
I like people and teaching is a fun way to interact with students and faculty who bring such varied talents and life experiences from which I can learn. Teaching is also is an important way to stay current in the advances of knowledge and to keep abreast of the cultural changes among the young, who are the future of every profession and of our society. On a personal level, it helps one to relate more effectively to one's children and grandchildren. The profession of teaching is stimulating to the mind because of the intelligence, curiosity and eagerness of the students, who will soon be our colleagues and will care for our loved ones.
Have you modeled your teaching style or philosophy on anyone?
My models have been many. In addition to the teachers I have mentioned above, my models would include Professor Phillip Nice (Dartmouth Medical) who as Dean of Students in 1962 encouraged us to keep others' values at the forefront and not to solely impose our own philosophy upon them. Being on the School of Medicine Admissions Committee for six years also helped me to realize that we need a diversity of talents and experiences in our physicians and encouraged me to be accepting of many backgrounds.
Are great teachers born, or are they made?
This is a difficult question. I think that all very good teachers have to like and respect people in general, and not be overtly judgmental or narrow-minded; they must be enthusiastic about the subject they teach; and they must be flexible. In addition, teachers have to be articulate and have a sense of humor. If the necessary human qualities, the enthusiasm and the basic language skills are present, then teaching style and technique can be learned, improved and/or adapted by observing others (including your own teachers, students and colleagues) and analyzing their methods. Teaching techniques of course vary with the times, the learners and the teacher. What works for one teacher in one situation may not be helpful to students in another situation. When I directed courses I tried, whenever possible, to encourage faculty to use the teaching format with which they were most comfortable to excel. For instance, some teachers are great at one-on-one interactions while others may be more successful with larger groups.
What are the great challenges to teaching in the 21st century?
Technology, money and time are the challenges. Technology can be very helpful or stultifying depending on who uses it and how it is used. Money to support professional teachers seems to be a greater problem in this century, especially in medical schools. Finally, faculty and students often feel that they do not have enough time to spend on teaching and learning. I am concerned about the lack of money to support teachers, which discourages young faculty from entering teaching, and the problem of student debt, which drives students to finish their education as quickly as possible and to specialize sooner.
Does the wide-ranging diversity of your students affect how you teach?
Oh yes, for many reasons. We are all aware of the importance of patient education in the use of medications, but as the population ages and the senses decline or as English more frequently is not the native language of patients and learners, teachers and medical professionals have to adapt. For instance, the teacher's use of examples of clinical problems needs to reflect the diversity in background of students as well as patients. Another area is the cultural demands of families upon medical students as it relates to study time that may cause tensions between a student's professional responsibilities and family expectations.
What do you think education will look like at OHSU in the future?
Although professional knowledge is still the most important aspect of teaching at the professional and graduate level, I think and hope that there will be more formal training for teachers in medical schools. This is already being talked about and efforts are underway to improve professional teacher training. However, it must be adequately supported.
What advice do you have for people who would like to follow in your path?
Do it! Teaching will be very rewarding in human terms. You will meet wonderful people and learn from them. You will be wiser and more fulfilled for having had the opportunity to teach. However, don't forget the key ingredients for effective teaching: knowledge, articulation, humor, acceptance, flexibility and enthusiasm.
Anything else you would like readers to know about you?
I love music. (I was a music major in college.) I believe that a liberal arts education is an excellent background for a teacher.
Dr. Olsen attended Dartmouth Medical School from 1962 to 1964, and received a B.M.S in June, 1964 (Dartmouth was a two-year medical school at that time and all students transferred to a four-year medical school after the second year at Dartmouth.) He attended Harvard Medical School from 1964 to 1966, and received his M.D. in June, 1966.
Courses taught
Dr. Olsen taught pharmacodynamics (the physiological actions of drugs on the body), pharmacokinetics (the elimination of drugs from the body), and the introduction to clinical pharmacology in basic science courses taught during the first two years of medical school. The primary course he taught was MSCI 613, Systems Processes and Homeostasis for first year medical students. He was also Director of that course from 1999 until he retired in 2012. In addition, he gave lectures and mentored small group discussions in MSCI 621, Neuroscience and Behavior; MSCI 622, Circulation and Respiration; and MSCI 626, Human Growth and Development. His main areas of teaching encompassed fetal, neonatal and maternal pharmacology, the pharmacology of aging and opioid analgesic pharmacology.
After two years as Medical Director of the San Xavier Indian Health Service Clinic outside of Tucson, Arizona (1967 to 1969), Dr. Olsen said he realized the "limitation of his medical knowledge and wanted to include research in his future," and so completed over a year of research training at the University of Oregon Medical School (1969 to 1970). His research since then has involved the maternal, fetal and neonatal effects of opioid and cocaine abuse and the consequences for breathing control in children and adults.


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BOSTON – A winter storm forecasters warn could be a blizzard for the history books with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow is clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor.
More than 14 inches of snow has fallen in Belmont, Mass., just northwest of Boston. More than 13 inches cover parts of northeastern Connecticut.
Throughout the Northeast, about 350,000 homes and businesses had lost electricity by Friday night as wet snow, freezing rain and howling winds caused havoc. Most of the outages are in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Thousands of flights have been grounded. New York City's airports are closed. There's 11 inches of snow east of the city.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says: "This is a storm of major proportions."
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FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — Outdoors clothing retailer L.L. Bean says sales dipped again in 2009 but the company managed to beat its own projections. The company also said online sales beat catalog orders for the first time.
President and CEO Chris McCormick told employees Friday that revenue for the fiscal year that ended last month was about $1.4 billion, down from $1.5 billion the year before. Still, employees will get a 3 percent bonus.
The second straight drop in sales capped a challenging year for the Maine-based company. The company's revenues have declined only four times since 1960.
McCormick says that in 2010 the company will invest in building its online presence, opening more stores in China and attracting younger customers to the brand.


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For the purposes of this chapter the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be promulgated such regulations, may cause such investigations, tests, demonstrations, and publications to be made, including the investigation and determination of some practical method whereby repeated and unnecessary sampling and classification of cotton may be avoided, and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person, as he shall find to be necessary.
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There's no doubt that Western Canada agrees with Tim Thomas.
So the question over these three days off between games at Calgary and Vancouver for the Bruins' brass is: how do we divvy up the next couple games between Thomas and Tuukka Rask.
After a week off, Thomas returned to action Tuesday night and nearly shut out the Flames. He finished with 28 saves on 29 shots in the 3-1 victory. For his career, Thomas has now played five road games against Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in his career. He is 4-1-0 with a .956 save percentage.
In his only previous visit to Vancouver, Saturday's opponent, Thomas blanked the Canucks on 31 shots. He shut them out a second time at TD Garden.
The last time Thomas visited Edmonton, who the Bruins play Sunday, he pitched a 27-save shutout, which was a follow-up to his 31-save, victorious NHL debut Oct. 19, 2002. Overall, Thomas' record against the Oilers reads 3-0-0 with a 0.98 goals-against avearage.
In a slightly smaller sample, Rask is 1-0-1 vs. Edmonton and Vancouver — with a 2-0 win over the Oilers Oct. 31, 2009 and a 3-2 shootout loss to the Canucks in Boston last February 6.
If Rask doesn't play over the weekend but instead makes his next start Tuesday at Ottawa, he'll have gone 10 days without game action and the groove he started to settle into with back-to-back wins over the New York Islanders and Senators last week could be lost. But with Thomas' numbers out west, it could be hard to sit him.
These are the types of difficult decisions head coach Claude Julien says he relishes because they're proof his team is deep. There's almost no wrong answer, unless Rask drops the ball in his next appearance, whether it's over the weekend or Tuesday in Ottawa. The choice between goaltender 1 and 1A has been hanging over the Bruins all season, but it has increased importance now with just 22 games left and the stretch run officially here.


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Bernard Lechewr, 71 - January 17, 2014Bernard Nicolas Lecher, 71, of Chadron passed away at his home on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014.
Services will take place on Friday, Jan. 24, at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Chadron with the Rev. Tim Stoner officiating. Burial will be at the Calvary Cemetery at Chadron.
A rosary will be conducted on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. at St. Patrick's.
Lecher was born at Chadron, the fourth of seven children to Tommy and Fern (Harrison) Lecher. He graduated from Assumption Academy in 1960.
He married Harriet Eileen Burke on June 25, 1960, at the St. Patrick's Church in Chadron. To this union, three children were born.
Lecher began his career in the car business with the Ford Garage in Chadron. In 1964, he and his wife moved to Crawford where he began his employment with Crawford Implement Company. He also sold both vehicles and machinery for Harvey Equipment.
He then took his knowledge of livestock and numerous business acquaintances and became a field representative for Chadron Sale Barn.
In 1988, he and his wife moved back to Chadron where he sold vehicles for both Tommy's Car Lot and then Wahlstrom Ford, retiring in 2006.
Lecher was a member of the Crawford Fire Department, Chadron Elks Club and St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
He enjoyed his horses and motorcycles—during his younger years—and his family, especially his grandchildren, family members said. He was a horseman and a gentleman, and remembered everyone and shared his smile with them.
Lecher was preceded in death by: his wife in 2005, Harriet Lecher; his parents, Tom and Fern Lecher; a sister, LaWayne Jones.
Survivors include: his sons—Nick (Liz) Lecher of Port St. Lucie, FL, Mike (Diana) Lecher of Chadron and Chris (Christy) Lecher of Gothenburg; grandchildren—Alex Smith of Douglas, WY, Jessica Lecher of Rapid City, SD, Sarah Lecher of Chadron, and Keely and Ashley Lecher of Gothenburg; siblings—Wayne (Virginia) Sides of Torrington, WY, Janice (Mitch) Magruder of Nevada, MO, Steve (Diane) Lecher of Chadron, Susan (Larry) Gold of Council Bluffs, IA, and Curt (Mary) Lecher, also of Chadron; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established for the Dawes County Ag Society and the Crawford Fire Department. Donations are suggested to the Chamberlain Chapel, P.O. Box 970, Chadron, NE 69337.
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Last week brought a flood of new info about Resident Evil 6, including a new trailer, new release date and new multiplayer details. While Capcom provided the first extended look at the game, we've spoken to our sources and dug a little bit deeper to find all kinds of new information on the characters, enemies and drama that you'll be checking out in October.
SPOILER WARNING: While this article contains no major spoilers, keep in mind that it does include some details that you may not want to know if you're trying to go into Resident Evil 6 knowing nothing about the story. You've been warned!
We revealed back in January that Ada Wong would appear in RE6. Capcom still hasn't officially confirmed Ada's presence in the game (even when we asked), but this trailer gives us a more extensive look at her. While we don't know Ada's exact role quite yet, it's safe to say that she remains a spy and double agent as in previous Resident Evil games. With Sherry Birkin making a return (which we also confirmed back in January), it makes sense that Ada is involved. Both characters were prominently featured in the events of Resident Evil 2, and Capcom has stated that the past of the franchise will play a role in its future.
In the trailer, Ada seems to have some kind of influence over enemies. At one point she's surrounded by J'avo (image #01, above) and appears to be in charge of the large monster that's attacking Jake (#02). Can she somehow control enemies? Are Chris and Leon fighting over her at the end of the trailer?
The chrysalid seen here seems to house some kind of major new enemy, and our sources tell us it's one of the key plot points of RE6. While we don't know what comes out quite yet, the open chrysalid does appear to contain a human, or at least something human-esque. Is it a new character? A new type of enemy? Or is it just the giant creature from the game's first trailer? We do know there are multiple chrysalids. Precisely what causes this mutation, and whether it needs a host, remains to be seen.
One key detail regarding the chrysalid(s) - it appears Ada Wong understands how they work. When confronting Chris Redfield's BSAA squad, Wong detonates some sort of 'needle bomb' that infects Redfield's crew, turning them immediately into terrifying creatures. This process seems to be a very quick mutation, meaning the slower gestation that the trailer suggests might simply be the result of editing. We've previously speculated this event is what causes Redfield to act differently, further lending support to the notion that Leon and Chris clash over Ada's fate.
The scary beast (#05) is the carrier of the C-Virus. While full details on the virus haven't been revealed, it's distinctly different than the T and G-Viruses of previous Resident Evil fame. As seen in the trailer, the "carrier" is able to secrete a gas that converts people into zombies.
C-Virus zombies (#06) are more mobile and agile than Resident Evil zombies we've seen in the past. RE6's zombies will sprint toward you, leap and can even carry weapons if they were holding them when they were converted. The C-Virus may have more specific applications than turning people into zombies, though its further uses are currently unknown.
The shadowy figure seen here is one of the trailer's biggest mysteries. It's too difficult to see this character to draw any concrete conclusions, but he seems too important to ignore entirely. Resident Evil 6's latest trailer is deliberately misleading at points, so this character may not be what he seems. Is it a disoriented BSAA soldier? Is it simply Chris after he hits his head in the trailer? Is it some kind of tyrant or zombie? The answers remain to be seen.
Despite theories to the contrary, the man above (image #09) is not Alex Wesker. Our sources have confirmed that this character has never appeared in a previous Resident Evil game, but that he's a major player in RE6 (perhaps even as important as Ada Wong).
According to our sources, this character is Derek Simmons, a National Security Advisor pursuing multiple agents. Throughout RE6, he'll interact with all of the major players, including recruiting Sherry Birkin and tracking Leon Kennedy. Simmons has his hands in everything that's happening in Resident Evil 6 and surely holds many secrets of his own.
Resident Evil 6 will hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 2nd, with a PC version to follow later. We've seen the game in action, so check out our impressions.
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The goal of the project is to recruit, retain and educate culturally competent rural and ethnic minority students in North and South Carolina. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration will award $250,179 the first year. Rebecca Bagley, certified nurse-midwife and director of ECU's nurse-midwifery graduate concentration, is the project director. Objectives are to: recruit undergraduate nursing students enrolled in historically black colleges and universities and a Native American-serving university in North and South Carolina; enhance the academic experience and retention of nurse-midwifery students through an online mentoring program; develop courses and clinical experiences that focus on primary health care and address health disparities of rural and ethnically diverse women; promote the ability of midwifery students to secure and sustain employment following graduation through participation in a mini-business institute in collaboration with the ECU College of Business; prepare nurse-midwives to deliver culturally competent care with emphasis on the Hispanic population and the use of traditional healing practices among rural and ethnically diverse populations.
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EDMONTON - There's this app called AgingBooth. For 99 cents, this "amazing face aging machine" can show you what you'll look like decades from now. "Ready to face your future?" it asks, tempting, baiting.
AgingBooth is one of the top-selling apps in iPhone's entertainment category, and that's really no surprise. We're all desperate to fast-forward, to know what time will do with our looks, our skin, our exterior.
But there's no app to show us what time will do with our lives, our hearts, our interior. You have to wait it out.
"Baby Roberge" was a precious mystery when she arrived three minutes after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 1, 1933. Time had yet to write upon the pages of her book. She was the first baby born in Edmonton that year, the first child of northsiders Ernie and Emily Roberge. Her tiny, cherubic face graced the front page of the Edmonton Journal on Jan. 3.
The baby's parents later named her Leora, which means "my light." You could say she's grown into the name, for, it is now, older and wiser, that Leora McDonald sees the world around her clearest.
Edmonton's first baby of 1933 is still a proud northsider, and she doesn't need some gimmicky face-aging app to show her what the future holds. She just celebrated her 80th birthday, has watched time etch wrinkles on her skin and scribble words onto the pages of her life.
Growing up, "we were big shots, we had a phone," she recalls of her childhood in northeast Edmonton. They had an outhouse, too, and there was no running water. Leora, the oldest of nine children, spent "darn near" every evening gliding around the Highlands skating rink. She walked there in the dark, through the bush, past a dump. "That was some scary," she says. "We were moving pretty fast."
Leora's parents were strict and, as a teen, she was rebellious, a smoker. She wanted to get out of the house and Art McDonald, an older guy, was her ticket.
In her own words, "the shots came later."
She became a mom at 18, had six children over a period of 20 years. "I was always pregnant; it seemed I was pregnant my whole life. And never a break. No holidays, we could never afford that."
Sometimes, life seemed to stand still for the hard-working mother, who raised her children in poverty. Her husband could not read or write but found some work building laths for plaster walls. He was inclined to drink, and often Leora was on her own parenting. She took odd jobs to make ends meet, had to choose between buying groceries and paying the power bill. They ate a lot of hamburger meat. "We never starved to death but there was never any extra, let's put it that way."
The book that is McDonald's life is ink-stained, its spine cracked. But this great-grandmother stands tall, straight. She is careful with her words about her family, but her blue eyes don't lie when you ask about how it was for her as a young mother.
"There were a lot of good times, but there were a lot of bad times," she says, wiping away a tear with a tissue. "I appreciate it all a lot more now than I did then."
Her husband died in 1998, of emphysema. The couple had been married 48 years. Leora keeps a gift from Art in her living room cabinet: artificial flowers he gave her after she had a surgery on her neck 15 years ago. The card he chose said, "Congratulations on your new baby."
She shares her cosy bungalow with an adorably ratty dog named Munchkin, a cat, and one of her sons, an arrangement that suits everyone well. "I'm better off now than I ever was in my life," she says.
Sister-in-law Marie Roberge, who is married to Leora's youngest brother, can't hide her admiration. "When I think of all the curveballs life has thrown her and how entitled young kids are, man, people could learn a lot from her."
Every year, newspapers run a picture of the first baby born in that city that year. Snap: this minuscule alien face, wrinkly, fresh, dark eyes, swaddled, perhaps in its mother's arms. The so-called 15 minutes of fame, and then off into the world, and no telling how it will all turn out.
Our city's 1933 baby turned out strong and loyal, stoic and loving, tough on the outside and tender in the middle. She mall-walks, loves driving and listening to Jim Reeves and visiting her family. She's a good mother, an example of what matters and what doesn't and what it means to "face the future." The world needs fewer silly phone apps, more Leoras.


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31 December 2012
Some Movies
I haven't had a chance to write about many movies over the past few months, so here are some stray, incomplete thoughts and blazingly subjective opinions on various films, before I completely forget my first impressions...
The Amazing Spider-Man. I've come to the conclusion that I don't much like super-hero movies, and my love of The Amazing Spider-Man, which most people seem to feel at best lukewarm about, is probably because it's not much of a super-hero movie. I didn't care for Sam Raimi's three Spider-Man movies much — indeed, I thought number 2, which some people I know consider the greatest super-hero movie of all time, worked vastly better when played at 1.5 speed, and probably would have been even better played faster, if the voices didn't sound like The Chipmunks. I went into The Amazing Spider-Man with very low expectations, then, and those expectations were exceeded all around. The casting is ultimately the film's greatest strength, because Andrew Garfield (who I've been fascinated by since Boy A) has a wonderful mix of insouciance, nerdiness, and intelligence that plays charmingly off of Emma Stone's typically bouncy/breathy Emma Stone performance. Denis Leary, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, and Campbell Scott are all delights, as well. The story really isn't much, Rhys Ifans doesn't have a whole lot to work with as the villain, and the special effects, while fine, are nothing particularly special for a film of this budget and type. But I never cared, because I loved hanging out with these characters.
Argo. A fun thriller with a surprisingly low body count. We're used to thrillers in which lots of people die, and yet this is in more than one way an old-school movie, a movie that is optimistic about the world-changing power of cinema, and nostalgic for a time when people thought movies could be a force for good in the world. At its core, it's a true story, but the liberties taken with the more mundane truths of the tale are all ones that fit the story into a conventional Hollywood mode. (More unfortunately conventional is its marginalizing of women.) And that's the point, as Jim Emerson has astutely written. It's enjoyable enough as a thriller, but it's more interesting as an exploration of audience expectations, genre conventions, and what we desire from our "true stories".
Beasts of the Southern Wild. I've been arguing with myself about this movie for a month now, which means I need to watch it a few more times. On the one hand, I was completely taken in by the performance of Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy, I found some of the cinematography lovely, and I found the ending moving. (The music totally got me.) On the other hand, it felt at times a bit too close to "noble savage" myths for comfort. What I want to look more closely at with a later viewing is the way the film uses Hushpuppy's point of view — as a child, she does her best to make sense of events and circumstances through her own perception, and because the movie is told through her eyes, her perception becomes ours (hence, the aurochs, which I also loved). While the surface of the film may seem to celebrate the self-reliance of the denizens of the Bathtub, and while Hushpuppy's abusive, alcoholic father Wink is celebrated with a lovely funeral at the end ... I didn't come away feeling that the movie itself was unambiguously celebrating all this. I was not left with an uplifting sense of the wondrous potential of human ingenuity in the face of disaster; instead, I left the film feeling overwhelmed by how limited the characters' choices were, how much they had been abandoned by the world beyond them, how much they had been forced to make do by a country that ultimately didn't really care that much if they washed away into the ocean. On the other hand, while I don't agree with the perspective of the Beasts-haters in this discussion at Slate, and even less so with the perspective of bell hooks, their points are worth considering, and I don't have good answers to some of them. On the other hand, there was a lot I enjoyed in the movie, a lot it made me think about, good and bad. (For other views, see Matt Denault at Strange Horizons and N.K. Jemison.)
25 December 2012
3 New E-Books
I have contributions in three new e-books that offer all sorts of wonders and joys:
- Don't Pay Bad for Bad is a collection of rare and previously unpublished short stories by Amos Tutuola (author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, etc.). The e-book includes an introduction by Tutuola's son Yinka, and an afterword by me in which I try to give some of the context for how Tutuola's writing has been perceived by readers over the years. [Available from Weightless (Epub & Mobi formats), Wizard's Tower (Epub & Mobi), Amazon.]
- Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn is a nearly-indescribable novella, easily one of my favorite pieces of writing of the last few decades, and so I'm thrilled to have provided an afterword for the e-book. [Available from Weightless (Epub & Mobi formats), Amazon.]
- The second issue of the lit journal Unstuck includes all sorts of stories, poems, essays, whatzits, etc., including a little story of mine, "The Island Unknown". The list of authors is awesome: Steve Almond, Kate Bernheimer, Jedediah Berry, Gabriel Blackwell, Edward Carey, Brian Conn, Rikki Ducornet, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Caitlin Horrocks, AD Jameson, J. Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem & John Hilgart, Paul Lisicky, Elizabeth McCracken, Ed Park, Donald Revell, Mary Ruefle, Tomaz Salamun, David J. Schwartz, Mathias Svalina, Daniel Wallace, Dean Young, Matthew Zapruder, etc. You can get the issue as a beautiful paperback, and/or you can download the e-book version from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Labels: Cheney publications, ebooks, Leena Krohn, literary magazines, Tutuola
16 December 2012
Warrior Dreams and Gun Control Fantasies
Yesterday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was the sixteenth mass shooting in the U.S. in 2012.
Looking back on my post about "Utopia and the Gun Culture" from January 2011, when Jared Loughner killed and wounded various people in Arizona, I find it still represents my feelings generally. A lot of people have died since then, killed by men with guns. I've already updated that post once before, and I could have done so many more times.
Focusing on guns is not enough. Nothing in isolation is. In addition to calls for better gun control, there have been calls for better mental health services. Certainly, we need better mental health policies, and we need to stop using prisons as our de facto mental institutions, but that's at best vaguely relevant here. Plenty of mass killers wouldn't be caught by even the most intrusive psych nets, and potential killers that were would not necessarily find any treatment helpful. Depending on the scope and nuance of the effort, there could be civil rights violations, false diagnoses, and general panic. (Are you living next door to a potential mass killer? Is your neighbor loud and aggressive? Quiet and introverted? Conspicuously normal? Beware! Better report them to the FBI...)
That said, I expect there are things that could be done, systems that could be improved, creative and useful ideas that could be implemented. I'd actually want to broaden the scope beyond just mental health and toward a strengthening of social services in general. I'm on the board of my local domestic violence/sexual assault crisis center, where demand for our services is up, but we're hurting for resources and have had to curtail and strictly prioritize some of those services. It's a story common among many of our peers not just in the world of anti-violence/abuse programs, but in the nonprofit social service sector as a whole.
What we have is a bit of a gun control problem, a bit more of a social services problem, and a lot of a cultural problem.
One of the best books I've encountered on this subject is James William Gibson's Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America. It's from 1994, but is in some ways even more relevant now.
New Issue of The Revelator
The latest issue of The Revelator is now online. Eric Schaller and I put this one together with love and craft. It includes new short stories by Meghan McCarron and Laird Barron, poems by Sonya Taaffe, comix by Chad Woody, a column on music by Brian Francis Slattery, art by Adam Blue, miniatures used in the movie The Whisperer in Darkness, a previously-unpublished interview with H.P. Lovecraft that Nick Mamatas discovered, etc. Once again, we have, we believe, fully embodied our motto: The Truth ... And All.
The easiest way to keep apprised of the always-unpredictable, regularly irregular schedule of The Revelator is via our Facebook page.
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08 December 2012
Notes After a Viewing of Red Dawn (2012)
The question is not whether Red Dawn is a good movie. It is a bad movie. As the crazed ghost of Louis Althusser might say, it has always already been a bad movie. The question is: What kind of bad movie is it?
(Aside: The question I have received most frequently when I've told people I went to see Red Dawn was actually: "Does Chris Hemsworth take off his shirt?" The answer, I'm sorry to say, is no. All of the characters remain pretty scrupulously clothed through the film. The movie's rated PG-13, a designation significant to its predecessor, so all it can do is show a lot of carnage, not carnality. May I suggest Google Images?)
My companion and I found Red Dawn to be an entertaining bad movie. I feel no shame in admitting that the film entertained me; I'm against, in principal, the concept of "guilty pleasures" and am not much interested in shaming anybody for what are superficial, even autonomic, joys. (That doesn't mean we can't examine our joys and pleasures.) No generally-well-intentioned, "diversity"-loving, pinko commie bourgeois armchair lefty like me can go into a movie like Red Dawn and expect to see a nuanced study of geopolitics. I knew what I was in for. I got what I expected: a right-wing action-adventure movie based on a yellow peril premise. Red Dawn is an unironic remake of a 1984 movie predicated on paranoid right-wing fantasies; it's not aspiring to even the most basic Starship Troopers-levels of intertextuality and metacommentary. There's none of the winking at the audiences that fills so many other 1980s remakes and homages (e.g. Expendables 2, which relies on the audience's knowledge of its stars' greatest hits — the only convincing performance in the movie is that of Jean-Claude van Damme, who, apparently overjoyed to be released from the purgatory of straight-to-DVD movies, plays it all for real, and becomes the only element of any interest in the whole thing). The closest Red Dawn comes to acknowledging its position in the cinemasphere happens when it turns the first film's very serious male-bonding moment of drinking deer blood into a practical joke, giving the characters a few rare laughs.
What are we supposed to feel good about in this movie? The 1984 Red Dawn was not even remotely a feel-good movie, but it gave us a space in which to feel proud of an idea of America that could survive even the most devastating attack by the Soviet Union (and its Latin American minions). It made a point of showing concrete objective correlatives for the abstract idea that is "American freedom" — the one that was most impressed on me by my father when we first watched Red Dawn together was the scene where Soviet soldiers talk about going to a gun shop to collect the federal Form 4473s, and using them to track down gun owners. This, to my father and many other people, demonstrated exactly why even the most minimal type of registration of guns is not merely annoying, but a threat to freedom. I vividly remember my father saying, "If the Russians come, we burn those damn forms." Red Dawn was not merely an action movie; it was a documentary.
02 December 2012
Anna Karenina
Rex Reed pointed to perhaps the best criticism of the new adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Joe Wright, a criticism that is over 100 years old. On 18 September 1905, James Joyce wrote to his brother Stanislaus about Tolstoy: "He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical." Wright's film of Anna Karenina is often dull, often stupid, sometimes tired, sometimes pedantic, and literally theatrical.
I have a fundamental problem with any adaptation of Tolstoy's novel. If someone (e.g., William Faulkner, F.R. Leavis) were to tell me that Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written, I would not disagree. Not having read all of the novels ever written, I'm not in a position to rank them, but I've certainly never read a better novel than Anna Karenina (and I've read War & Peace, — but for all its glories and wonders, it falls apart at the end, so Anna has a point up on it there). Additionally, Konstantin Levin is just about my favorite character in any novel.
Much of what I love about the book and its characters is not, though, its drama. One of the things that distinguishes Anna Karenina for me is that it doesn't work as anything but a novel, because novels can encompass, enliven, and embody so many discourses: dramatic, yes, but also philosophical, journalistic, political, historical... It takes genius to do the same with a dramatic genre, a play or a film, and Joe Wright is not a genius.
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