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HERNDON, VA—February 20, 2013— LGS Innovations™, an independent subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE and Euronext Paris: ALU), today announced it has been awarded a contract worth just over $49 million to upgrade the U.S. Army's Main Communications Facility (MCF) in Southwest Asia. The MCF, designed as a state-of-the-art commercial communications operations center, will serve as the central information systems hub for the region.
The MCF will house 9,000 square feet of usable equipment room space and will be capable of multiplexing and de-multiplexing circuits transported over copper, fiber, satellite, or terrestrial Line of Sight (LOS) radios.
"LGS deploys the most advanced, state-of-the-art communications technologies available to both defense and civilian organizations," said LGS Innovations CEO Kevin Kelly. "This opportunity to upgrade and modernize such a mission critical piece of infrastructure for the U.S. Army will not only support our military and warfighters abroad, but will also help the Federal Government to continue to provide for homeland security and overcome future overseas communications challenges."
LGS was selected as the exclusive contractor to engineer, furnish, install, test, and secure the Army's extensive network, transmission, and voice infrastructure in Southwest Asia as part of the Department of Defense's IMOD initiative. The company has also been tasked to execute a critical cutover of transmission circuits as well as design, develop, furnish, and install a virtualized infrastructure to accommodate the migration of servers and their applications from existing facilities to the MCF.
About LGS Innovations
LGS InnovationsTM LLC solves the most complex networking and communications challenges facing the U.S. Federal Government. Building on its Bell Labs heritage, LGS Innovations delivers groundbreaking research and advanced networking and communications solutions that provide an information advantage and contribute to the mission success of its customers. Solutions include Infrastructure & Installation; Video Teleconferencing and IPTV Solutions; Public Safety and Emergency Communications, Tactical Communications; Wireless/Mobility; 4G/LTE; Cloud Solutions; Enterprise, Optical and Data Networking; Network Integration; and Research and Development in Advanced Multimedia/RF, Cybersecurity, sensing technologies, and Photonics.
An independent subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated solely to serving the U.S. Federal Government, LGS Innovations is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with offices in Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and North Carolina. To learn more about LGS Innovations, visit lgsinnovations.com. LGS Innovations: The Network Experts.
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This week's Mani Monday is actually from last week's trip to Cosmoprof in Las Vegas. While I was there, I had a chance to see the new CND Shellac shades coming out and experience the new Orly Gel FX manicure for myself. I wanted the best of both worlds so I decide to keep my Shellac mani on one hand and try the new Orly Gel FX on the other so I could compare the two at the same time. It may look a little odd in person but I don't care, I'm loving these two shades.
On my left hand I'm wearing CND Shellac in a combination of Purple Purple and Zillionaire, 2 coats of Purple Purple and I coat of Zillionaire. These are both new shades set to launch in salons next month. Purple Purple is an iridescent violet purple and Zillionaire is a sheer multi-colored glitter. These two shades work beautifully together and I can't wait to try Zillionaire over something else once it is available.
Until I tried this combination, I had never layered my shades before, now I can't imagine not doing it. You don't see multi-colored specs of glitter here as well as you do in person but trust me, it is stunning. I've never had this many compliments on my nail color before.
On my left hand, I'm wearing Orly Gel FX in Cabana Boy. This shade is a pearly hot pink and I have 3 coats of it here on my nails. This shade seems to be on the sheer side so the 3 coats are due to that but I saw another gal get her manicure in a rich black and she was fine with 2 coats. Just like Shellac, Gel FX fills in all the dents and lines on my nailbeds from the acrylics and leaves me with a smooth surface. This hand's wear is neck and neck with the other hand's wear. What I'm most curious about are the state of my nails once I remove both formulas, which I will let you know about.
One thing that is unique about Gel FX is that Orly took its existing shades and turned them into gel versions. If I wanted to touch up my gel version once grow out starts becoming obvious, I could take the non-gel version and cover up my "roots". I'll tell you more about Gel FX later though.
About a month ago I went to a salon to get a manicure to try and take care of the mess that was my nails after removing acrylics. The salon suggested I get CND Shellac to protect my nails as they grew out. Something about that suggestion didn't sit well with me at the time so I took to Twitter to get the advice of my fellow bloggers. Oh my! They were opinionated. Their main issue was that this does nothing to strengthen the nail, which was what I wanted and needed desperately at the time. This gripe may go away after Orly's Gel FX hits the scene, they say their formulas are enriched with vitamins to help nourish nails… but again, more on that later.
I didn't go through with Shellac at the time but after wearing gel formulas on my nails this week, I'm seriously tempted to go back for more… maybe a nude shade so I can swatch shades on top. I got a manicure before I left for Cosmoprof and you could still see all the damage on my nails through the nail polish. On top of that, the color chipped off like crazy because my nails are still weak and they bend when I do the simplest things, I'm lucky they don't break! Having gel on them now has me thinking I can still enjoy color in the state my nails are currently in.
So what's on your nails this week? What do you think of the shades on my nails? Have you tried Shellac? Let me know in the comments!

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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University alumnus Raymond C. Dee of Naples, Fla., formerly of Pottsville, Pa., has been elected the next chair of the university's Board of Trustees.
Dee's term will begin in June and he will succeed John R. "Jack" McGinley Jr. of Pittsburgh, who has served as board chair since 2004. Dee's fellow officers will be elected in June. "As we prepare to bid farewell to a leader of Jack McGinley's caliber, we are extraordinarily fortunate that Ray is willing to serve in the role of chair. Given Ray's tenure on the Board and his depth of involvement, he is positioned to hit the ground running and maintain and build upon the momentum that has been established under Jack's leadership," said University President Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D.
Dee has served for several terms as the chair of the Development Committee of the Board in addition to serving as vice chair of the board for the past year.
Dee served as executive vice president of Cressona Aluminum Co., a firm he founded in 1979 until its sale to Alumax in 1996.
An active alumnus, Dee has served on the SBU President's Council, National Alumni Board and Capital Campaign Committee, and in the externship program. He has provided leadership for the Annual Bonaventure Fund, taking on the posts of national vice chairman and alumni chairman prior to serving as national chairman of the 102nd Annual Bonaventure Fund.
He was SBU's Alumnus of the Year in 1990. He was the chair of the Development Committee overseeing the 150th Anniversary Campaign and is an honorary co-chair of the new School of Business Campaign.
He has also served as a trustee for Alvernia College in Reading, Pa., as a board member for Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center and the Schuylkill Economic Development Corp., as president of St. John the Baptist Church Council, and as board chair of Seaton Manor.
Dee and his wife, Maureen, split their time between Naples, Fla., and Sag Harbor, N.Y. Of the couple's six children, three daughters have graduated from St. Bonaventure.
In addition to his bachelor's degree in economics from St. Bonaventure, Dee holds an MBA from Loyola University, Chicago.
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Let us now praise Vladimir Putin.
Yes, Russia's president is a cold-hearted autocrat. And yes, he rules through a network of nasty oligarchs bent on squeezing profit from their country's oil riches. If he covets a piece of territory, he's liable to try to grab it.
But he's not a madman. Putin has played an old-fashioned game of international brinkmanship masterfully — and so far, he's coming out ahead.
The Russian president took Ukraine to the brink of war, but then, remarkably, he backed off.
His hands-off attitude toward Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday, and his willingness to negotiate with Ukraine's newly elected Petro Poroshenko, doesn't mean the crisis is over; far from it.
On Monday, for example, Ukrainian troops fought a pitched battle with pro-Russian guerrillas at the airport in Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city seized by separatists; about 50 were reported killed. But notice what didn't happen: The Red Army didn't swoop in from Russia to rescue its beleaguered clients.
And that means the struggle over Ukraine isn't going to escalate toward military confrontation between Russia and the West. Instead of a global flash point, it's now merely one of several local wrangles in the territory of the former Soviet Union. And, for the time being, the U.S. and its European allies are content to leave it that way.
Here's the score card: Putin has pocketed Crimea, the first territory in Europe to be seized by force since World War II. (On paper, the United States and the European Union are still demanding that he give the peninsula back to Ukraine, but in private, their leaders concede that's unlikely to happen.) He has forced the European Union to put the brakes on Ukraine's progress toward membership in the Western economic club. He has kept most of Russia's business with the West intact and signed a big new natural gas deal with China. Now all he has to do is wait for Western attention to Ukraine's travails to wane, as it probably will.
"Putin has been watching carefully how people react," Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution, a longtime Putin-watcher, told me. "By pulling back over the elections, he created himself a breathing space.... Now everyone is saying, 'We must deal with Russia.' But that puts Russia in the driver's seat.
"Even Poroshenko is saying it's time for normalization with Moscow," she noted. "He knows who's going to call the shots over Ukraine's future: not Brussels, not Washington. It's Moscow."
And Putin won't apologize for that. He considers Ukraine part of what he calls "the post-Soviet space," meaning Russia's rightful sphere of influence. He told foreign journalists last week he acted against Ukraine for defensive reasons, because Kiev's moves toward membership in the European Union and NATO "threaten our interests."
"There are certain red lines that we can't allow to be crossed," Putin explained.
President Obama and his European allies had a red line in this crisis, too — but it was in a different place: Ukraine's western borders, where NATO begins. With no treaty commitment to defend Ukraine and little confidence in the Kiev government, the Western powers had no appetite for military involvement. Obama quickly rejected proposals to send troops or even significant military aid — no U.S. boots on the ground, and no boots for Ukraine's army, either.
Obama wasn't passive. Working with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he organized U.S.-European economic sanctions against individual Russian oligarchs, and threatened tougher sanctions if Putin disrupted Sunday's election. Hill and other independent experts believe the threat was one reason Putin allowed the election to go forward.
But that threat may also have been a high-water mark in Western toughness against Russia. Officials said Tuesday that there would be no more sanctions merely because pro-Russian separatists blocked voting in Donetsk and other eastern cities.
Now it's up to Poroshenko, a chocolate magnate with major business interests in Russia, to negotiate a new relationship with Putin while also meeting the demands of a Ukrainian electorate that still wants the country to move toward the West.
Poroshenko has said concluding a free trade "association agreement" with the EU is his first order of business. But he may attempt to convince Putin that Ukraine can retain its existing free trade agreement with Russia at the same time.
Can he have both? Putin holds important leverage on Ukraine's economic and political stability: almost all its energy supplies, the main markets for its manufactured goods, billions of dollars in debts owed to Moscow, plus all those well-armed separatists in Donetsk.
The old concept of international spheres of influence may seem outmoded, but Putin has been blunt: He believes in it. He wants Russia to have one, with Ukraine inside it. And so far, he's winning.


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I haven't heard this new Fidelio, but would certainly like to. I recently borrowed the EMI Tristan with Stemme and Domingo from my library, and she sounds quite beautiful on it. If she is a bad as you say on the new Fidelio, her vouice may have declined badly, which sometimes happens , and wobble and strain set in. To bad. Her voice sounds pristine and immaculate on the Tristan set, which was recorded only about six or seven years ago.
The voice seems to be in the ear of the listener. People certainly experience the same sounds differently from one another. Here you go: the woman herself in the performance we are discussing. Let me know what you think.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Kvp8S0J1cCompare it with this...a singer who garnered very little international acclaim. Too much competition back then. Gertrude Grob-Prandl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8MnB_eRsbQMike
No mention of the Fricsay CD so far?? That's the version I play the most.
....there would probably have been a duel between Fidelio and Jacquino because of the latters jealousy and Leonore/Fidelio would have had to sleep with Pizarro to get into the dungeons or whatever.
Yes, I was aware of the possibility of it being based on real life, also of women pirates etc, only discovered to be women at death. However, most female opera singers cannot manage even an approximate simulation of being a man. One who did it and was totally convincing is Sarah Connelly the English Mezzo. The evidence is on the Handel Julius Caesar DVD from Glyndbourne. Within five minutes I was no longer thinking of her as a woman pretending to be a man.The Shakespeare disguises have never convinced me; but of course the history was that all the roles were played by men. Mike
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Women 'worse off from divorce'
Women are missing out on more than £5 billion a year in pension payments after going through a divorce.
Scottish Widows' Women and Retirement report, which consulted 10,314 adults, found 48% of women have no clue what happens to their pension when a marriage ends in divorce.
40% of divorced women said their retirement prospects declined as a result of the split, while 10% were relying solely on the state pension to provide post-retirement income.
Almost a quarter (24%) of women said they are unable to make any contribution towards their retirement savings following the break-up of their marriage.
Catherine Stewart, retirement expert at Scottish Widows, said:
"Generally speaking, women's retirement prospects are worse than men's.
"The persistent gender pay gap, maternity leave and career breaks can all hold back women's earning potential and this often impacts pension savings.
"Relationship breakdowns can leave people really vulnerable but, quite simply, they're also throwing significant sums of money down the drain."
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The Endless Summer poster features the silhouettes of three male surfers, faceless, though you just know they've got to be beautiful, total hunk dreamboats with chiseled everything and hair, streaked blond and tangled with salt, falling gorgeously into cool blue stares, and teeth of such dazzling whiteness that to look at them is like looking into the sun. Their bodies are loose yet alert, relaxed yet vigilant, maximum laid-back yet ready at a moment's notice for some really wild, super-type action, whatever they do done without effort and fast because that's their style, more than their style, their code. Boards balanced on top of their heads or tucked under an arm, they gaze at the ocean stretched out before them into the sky, into infinity. A trio of hotdogging Galahads searching for, as the poster's text, plain but elegant, informs you, "the perfect wave." The landscape behind them couldn't be more familiar, an Anywhere U.S.A. beach, absent a single distinguishing characteristic. It's exotic, though, too—beyond exotic, strange, alien even—the colors it's rendered in eye-poppingly artificial: the natural world made otherworldly by the toxic chemical brilliance of Day-Glo. That it's impossible to tell if the sun is rising above the horizon or sinking below it is similarly dislocating. Dawn or dusk? Early or late? Just after the beginning or coming up on the end?
Pop culture is culture written in lipstick on the back of a take-out menu. Its disposability—its junkiness—is its point, its appeal. And yet this poster, designed half a century ago, in 1964, has endured. To call it enduring is, in fact, too pip-squeak a word. Originally intended for a very small and very specific segment of the population located on the southern portion of the California coast, mermen and mermaids under 18 years of age who practically lived in their trunks and itsy-bitsy-teeny-weenies, the poster became a genuine phenomenon, spanning borders, class, time itself. In the late 60s, it hung in caves in Vietnam, where American G.I.'s smoked dope and listened to the Doors, tried to tune out the sounds of their brothers-in-arms making mincemeat of, and being made mincemeat by, the Vietcong outside. And four and a half decades later, it—well, a shrunk-down version of it printed on soft-knit machine-washable cotton of ooh-baby blue—hung off the chests of Zac Efron and Justin Bieber, the two battling it out to see who could wear an Endless Summer tank top better. (Too close to call. They looked equally studly, equally slammin'.) In fact, so potent is the poster as an icon that it's become a pop-culture reference within pop culture: it's taped to the wall of the apartment of Rick Carlson (Sam Elliott), in his 30s but still chasing adolescent kicks, in the 1976 film Lifeguard; to the wall of the bar where all the characters working at, or recuperating in, the 510th Evac Hospital go to forget their troubles in the late-80s drama China Beach; to the wall of the bedroom of Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki), the wrong-side-of-the-tracks young beauty, restless to get out of Dillon, Texas, escape small-town life, in the aughts television adaptation of Buzz Bissinger's 1990 book, Friday Night Lights. And in just the past few years, it's made cameos in Bunheads and Hawaii Five-0 and Soul Surfer and some reality show on the Spike channel called Bar Rescue.
What a movie poster really is, though, is a movie advertisement, and an advertisement is only as good as the amount of merchandise it moves. Which makes the Endless Summer poster the advertisement supreme: it keeps on selling. Not just tickets to Bruce Brown's documentary. Anything. Everything. In 2010 it was sampled by Gap to promote its spring line, a rip-offy version hanging in store windows behind mannequins wearing dumb-looking board shorts and flip-flops. Gap, proving there's honor among thieves, would compensate for the lift—unconscious, the company claimed—by selling officially licensed Endless Summer T-shirts. Old Navy would follow suit. As would Urban Outfitters. As would Macy's and Nordstrom and Lucky Brand and Kohl's and virtually every other major label and retailer you can think of. There are Endless Summer pins, stickers, decals, Frisbees, tote bags, phone cases. Florida has an Endless Summer specialty license plate. Wilson has an Endless Summer volleyball. There's an Endless Summer beer (Karl Strauss). There's even an Endless Summer car, a two-seater with a retractable roof, sold by the German automobile manufacturer Opel, owned by G.M., unavailable in the U.S. New York's Museum of Modern Art peddles the poster. Walmart does, too. It's a college-dorm-room staple, as much of a cliché as Starry Night. The image is so pervasive, in fact, as to be almost invisible, a taken-for-granted entity, part of the cultural landscape.
The Endless Summer poster. Fifty years old, and it hasn't aged a minute.
What is it about this image, modest and restrained with a kind of cool courtesy to it, not coming on strong, holding back, but with a directness, too, bare-bones and straight-shooting and low-key, that captures the collective imagination so completely and definitively?
If John Van Hamersveld, the man behind the poster, knows the answer, he's not telling. John, 72, is a tall, soft-spoken, slow-moving guy with a fixed, steady gaze and a pale, rounded face. No sharp edges anywhere on him, in fact. Every time I've seen him he's been dressed the same way: black pants, black shirt buttoned to his Adam's apple, small black-framed glasses, a brimmed hat, also black, the kind Humphrey Bogart wore in The Big Sleep, though John's affect is closer to that of Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe. A camera dangles from his neck, and sometimes he'll look through the lens without taking a picture. He and his wife, Alida Post, a former New York gallery director—in contrast to John, she's all kinetic, live-wire energy, a fast talker, a smoker, quick to laugh—reside in a studio-house hybrid on top of a hill on the east side of Palos Verdes, south of L.A., a stone's throw from where John grew up, on Lunada Bay, in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes.
It was in Dana Point, though, on the coast but an hour south, that John created the Endless Summer poster. By day he was a surfer, sharing waves with the great Miki Dora, not as an equal but as one of Miki's "tools," a tool, according to John, being "the usual jerk kind of young, worshipping male," a sort of Ur-gremmie. Sharing waves, too, with the real-life Gidget, Kathy Kohner, bearing scant resemblance to the cute-as-a-button beach bunny with the high-bouncing ponytail and snub nose and boy-crazy ways made famous by Sandra Dee. She was, John writes in his memoir, My Life, My Art, "not necessarily a sexual kitten" but rather "a female tool" and "very outspoken." By night, though, he was a student at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, studying Abstract Expressionism and hanging out with the fast-company likes of the artist Ed Ruscha, who'd published Twentysix Gasoline Stations only the year before, and Rick Griffin, still doing time in high-school homeroom yet already with his own comic strip, "Murphy," and a significant underground following. John was also the art editor of Surfer magazine. (He'd tried to start his own surf-related magazine, Surfing Illustrated, but things got a little weird between him and his principal backer, who'd had a metal plate inserted in his skull after an accident in the water.)
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So John was on the scene and known to do good work. Plus, said Bruce Brown, "he was the only artist I knew." It was no big surprise, then, that he was asked if he'd be interested in designing the poster for Bruce's latest. No big deal either. Bruce was a hotshot, certainly, but strictly a local one, which was exactly how he liked it, thank you very much. "I would rather be a milkman at the beach than live in Hollywood," he once wrote, though this seems less the kind of remark you commit to paper for posterity than spit in some jerk's face to make him shut it. Bruce started making surf documentaries in 1958. All were done on the super-cheap, first with an 8-mm. camera, later with a 16, starring his buds and shown in high-school auditoriums in and around Orange County, him on the stage with a tape player, lowering the volume of the music to do narration, turning it back up when it was just footage playing, as his wife, Pat, ran the projector. (Kem Nunn, future writer of surfer-noir classic Tapping the Source and co-creator of HBO's John from Cincinnati, then just a kid, a gremmie, would be in the audience, soaking it all in.) Recalled Brown of those early, catch-as-catch-can days, "I hadn't ever got up in front of an audience and done anything like that. Anyway, I came up with something and did it and people . . . were laughing and I thought, Wow, this isn't too bad."
John accepted the assignment, thinking it little more than a chance for some quick cash, if that. (Bruce had hocked his house to finance the movie, so payment wasn't a given.) A basic concept was devised by Bruce, Pat, and Bruce's marketing-and-publicity man, R. Paul Allen: silhouettes of surfers in a beachy-type setting. John drew several thumbnail sketches. Once they were O.K.'d, he and Bruce, along with the film's two unbelievably cute stars—Mike Hynson, fair-haired and right-footed and renting the room above Bruce's garage, and Robert August, dark-haired and left-footed and a veteran of Bruce's movies, appearing in his first, Barefoot Adventure, at 14—headed over to Salt Creek Beach. Photos were taken there by Bob Bagley, one of the film's producers, under John's direction, of Hynson and August with Bruce in the foreground. John chose a negative, made a high-contrast positive, then using the silkscreen techniques taught in his advertising class—a case of earn as you learn if ever there was one—he created the image of the Kansas figures in the Oz landscape, black on neon, selecting colors of such retina-burning vividness they were best viewed through a pair of Ray-Bans in hopes of attracting attention on high-school campuses. (Fluorescent paints and inks were relatively new on the art scene, up until then having been used mostly by the military during World War II.) John then hand-lettered the title because he was picky about fonts and none were quite right. His job done, he passed off the poster to R. Paul Allen. And once Allen coughed up the $150 fee, John promptly dismissed the matter from his mind.
John was beyond shocked when, two years later, a classmate of his at the Chouinard Art Institute (a precursor to CalArts) told him that an ad for The Endless Summer, featuring the image he'd designed, was in The New York Times. ("I was just a kid from Dana Point who made a poster.") Thanks to the hustle and scuffle of Bruce and R. Paul Allen, this movie, which distributors had initially said "could never play more than 10 feet from the ocean" and with a "shitty" poster besides, was about to become a monster hit: a local craze turning into a national craze and soon turning into an international craze as well. The 35-mm. version, converted by Don Rugoff of Cinema V, if not quite a big-league distributor, biggish-league, would crush it at the box office, grossing a whopping $20 million—made for a chump-changey $50,000!—and inspiring alliterative ecstasy in critics. Bruce Brown was the "Bergman of the boards," according to Time, the "Fellini of the foam," according to The New York Times.
The Endless Summer was then, and remains to this day, a true-blue sensation and the ne plus ultra of surf movies, inducted into not only the Surfers' Hall of Fame but the National Film Registry as well. The way Hynson slid across that wave of shimmering, glassy green in Cape Saint Francis, South Africa—the wave he and August and Brown had traveled to the four corners of the earth to find, the perfect wave—so sweet and easy and graceful in his movements he might have been dancing, he might have been flying, was the way the whole movie felt: like, hey, piece of cake, nothing to it. What should have been the movie's undoing, its amateurism, was, in fact, the making of it. The shagginess and rough edges of the production (a cutely self-amazed title card that read, "Filmed in the ACTUAL LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD"), the dinky graphics (a cartoon plane on a cartoon map charting the zigzagging course of its leads), the friendly-voiced narration by Brown, full of insider lingo and cornball jokes ("Malibu Beach, California, famous for its Malibu Outriggers, surfing, and girls. This is a girl, and for those of you who are maladjusted, this is a Malibu Outrigger"), the whole home-movie vibe, all made The Endless Summer seem real and authentic, the opposite of the slick, cloying, phony-beyond-belief product that Hollywood so routinely churned out, the big studios' impulse being to turn whatever trend was fresh or original or exciting into kitsch, into shit. (Frankie Avalon, a surfer? And risk getting that pompadour wet? Say what?) Remember, also, that in 1964 the coasts were much farther apart. To a kid freezing his tail off in Poughkeepsie, Brown's documentary offered a view of an entirely new world, an entirely new way of life.
As sure-footed as The Endless Summer was, though, John's poster was surer-footed. And maybe a single still image always has an advantage over a series of moving ones because it's more evocative, more mysterious, lends itself more readily to the imagination and dreaming. In any case, the poster, this casual, spontaneous, offhand thing—created at a kitchen table! as a school project, basically!—captured the spirit not just of the movie but of the moment: the fun-in-the-sun, new-Garden-of-Eden innocence of early-60s Southern California. (Not innocent for long, not innocent even then, not fully, a shadow already starting to fall, corruption already starting to blossom. Robert August may have been as open-faced all-American wholesome as he appeared—student-body president, straight A's, with plans to go on to dental school—but Mike Hynson certainly wasn't. Hynson, of the clean limbs and sun-colored hair and little-rascal grin, later confessed to carrying pot and bennies on him during filming. In a few years he'd find himself mixed up with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a heavy-duty bad-to-the-bone dope ring, taking surf trips to the Middle East and India, carving chunks of foam out of his board, packing the holes with hashish oil to bring back to the U.S.) Lorraine Wild, onetime program director of graphic design at CalArts, writes of how innovative John's concept was, noting that the color orange was flat out "not used by serious designers on the East Coast." And Shepard Fairey, creator, most famously, of the Obama "Hope" poster, has said that it "may be the most pervasive surf image ever created."
My sense is that the image's diffidence is what draws you in, turning you into the aggressor, the one who's got to have it or else, and that the simplicity is what makes you stay, elevating as it does the young men's quest, trivial to the point of absurd in one sense (looking for a wave to ride on? pfft, kid stuff), ultra-profound in another (these guys are trying to walk on water, defy the laws of nature, do what Jesus did!), to the level of myth.
The simplicity of the image, too, allows for so many possibilities, makes it almost infinitely suggestive. First, and most obviously, it suggests the romance of beach culture, which was just starting to catch on, become A Thing, thanks to the Beach Boys and the A.I.P.-produced where-the-urge-meets-the-surge quickies, starring Frankie Avalon and the Mouseketeer with the sex-kitten bod, Annette Funicello. Beach culture, which was another way of saying West Coast culture, or lack thereof, at least in the traditional East Coast sense. West Coast culture, which was another way of saying youth culture. It wasn't just that Southern California looked like paradise—unspoiled, lush-tropical, skies of Technicolor blue and girls of 36-24–36—but, with its hot rods and beach-blanket bingo and good times and nothing but, it looked like a paradise specifically designed for teenagers. All of a sudden, under-age was just the right age. Of course it was. Who wants to become an adult when becoming an adult means becoming eligible for the draft, means dying? The Endless Summer, one of the great movie titles, is an idea that its protagonists are trying to embody: follow summer around the globe so that it goes on indefinitely, keep moving and time stops, stands still—you never grow up, never grow old. You yourself are that perfect wave, one that forever crests, never breaks.
John's image suggests, as well, a culture on the verge of going Pop. Only two years before, Andy Warhol, until then known primarily as a commercial illustrator—an adman, basically—had flashed his cans at the world during his first the-future-c'est-moi solo fine-arts show, titled "32 Campbell's Soup Cans," at the Ferus Gallery, in West Hollywood. (That's right. The quintessentially New York artist got his big break in L.A.) Not to mention a culture on the verge of going counter. Looming on the poster's horizon was that sun, large and round and so bright it was nearly vibrating, eliciting from the viewer a Wow with half a dozen *o'*s in it. And the colors the image was rendered in, pinks and oranges and yellows out of a Crayola box, out of a Life Savers roll, out of an acid trip, anticipated Timothy Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out" by a good three years.
And the image's hero, the surfer, was a new kind of hero. Well, he was old and new. If he'd been born a hundred years earlier, he'd have been a cowboy. He had the cowboy's instinctive loathing of fences, love of the great wide-open. And what was standing at the farthest edge of America, surveying the Pacific, but the next logical phase of Manifest Destiny and lighting out for the territory and Westward ho. The surfer, though, was new in the sense that he preferred to be in harmony with nature rather than in opposition to it, was seeking not to conquer but to coexist, and beautifully because if he was an athlete he was every bit as much a poet too. A dharma bum turned beach bum.
From Dana Point to Hollywood
Bruce Brown had found what he loved to do, and, with The Endless Summer, a way to make money doing it. He'd continue to write and direct documentaries, most notably The Endless Summer II (1994).
John, however, would leave the surf world behind with The Endless Summer, trading in his baggy board shorts for pants of skintight leather. In 1967, a year after the 35-mm. release, a sweaty-palmed, shaggy-haired John, then an art student looking to earn money between semesters with a little illustration work, walked into the famed Capitol Records Building, near Hollywood and Vine, armed with only a teacher recommendation and a portfolio containing a folded-up copy of the poster—imagine: a 40-by-30-inch business card!—and a few issues of Surfer magazine. He walked out the art director of the whole shebang, hired by Mr. Big Cheese himself, Brown Meggs, Capitol's C.O.O. Meggs, who had signed the Beatles for American distribution a mere four years before, had seen the poster during a visit to New York and gone gaga. "You are going to take this job and you can't turn it down" were Meggs's first words when John stepped through the door of his office.
John did and he couldn't. At Capitol he began designing album covers. Over the course of his career he'd perform this service for the Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour), the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main St.), the Grateful Dead (Skeletons in the Closet), Blondie (Eat to the Beat), Kiss (Hotter than Hell). He'd design, too, the posters for the Pinnacle Rock Concerts, including the seminal Pinnacle Hendrix. The Johnny Face, a symbol created in 1969 but already about the 70s' nostalgia for the 60s, was also his, silkscreened on T-shirts that were eventually worn by, among others, Mick Jagger, Robert Downey Jr., and hot-stuff cool-jerk movie star Vincent Chase in Entourage. John was responsible for, as well, the mural that wrapped partway around the L.A. Coliseum for the '84 Summer Olympics; the logo for the fast-food chain Fatburger; the poster for Cream's 2005 Royal Albert Hall reunion concert. And this is just a partial list of his credits, a greatest-hits compilation, a highlight of the highlights, because who has all day?
Still, the Endless Summer image remains John's most famous creation. And yet, he has no legal rights to it. When he realized those rights belonged solely to Bruce Brown's company he became one pissed-off baby daddy. Things got ugly between the two men. Threats were made. Lawyers got involved. These days, though, John's mellowed on the subject, waxing that's-show-business philosophical. "[It] was considered work-for-hire," he says now with a shrug. And his relationship with Bruce is more or less copacetic, the artist and director even teaming up on a fine-art 50th-anniversary edition of the poster, which ranges in price from $100 (unsigned) to $500 (signed by both John and Bruce).
John is well known in his field, no question, but real fame has eluded him. And maybe if he were a wild-eyed, sputter-mouthed, in-your-face New Yorker, rather than an easygoing, gentle-voiced, unassuming Californian, his levels of renown would be commensurate with his accomplishments. It's a bummer for him that they're not, yet it's also, in a funny way, a tribute. It's both his art and his business not only to determine what is and will be popular but to shape how we see this popular thing, reducing it to its essence and then conveying that essence in a lone image. To do this he must fuse his identity with that of the popular thing, leaving no trace of himself behind. Usually an artist's work is an expression of his personality. John's is the opposite, which is why he's everywhere and nowhere at once, visible to the point that he's invisible, disappearing when he's right before your very eyes. Like a surfer who is not just good but the best—a perfect surfer—John doesn't ride the wave; he becomes it.


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While that's big news, we're more interested in why investors were willing to put that much money into a year-old startup.
So we spoke with founders Brian Schechter and Aaron Schildkrout about how they've grown their site into one that's worthy of a 8-figure investment.
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Most dating sites are more awkward than fun. They focus on a user's relationship status more than on a user's interests.
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"How about we...go to bkln boulders, mess up our hands and then treat ourselves to a piece of paprika peach pie at blackbird.." one user writes. "How about we ...go see Gillian Welch at the Beacon Theater on Oct 22. I have two tickets," writes another.
Users can scroll through feeds until a date suggestion catches their eye. If they're interested, they can send a message to schedule an offline meeting.
"We want people to go online to get offline," says Aaron Schildkrout, cofounder of HowAboutWe. "We believe the line between the online world and the offline world is becoming increasingly blurry and that the Internet can be used to meet wonderful people -- in person. The dating space is the perfect place to manifest that concept."
"For the past year, our goal has been two-fold," says cofounder Brian Schechter. "1) Create the best online dating experience on earth. 2) Solve user acquisition through innovation."
HowAboutWe launched with that unique vision in April 2010. It was met by a flurry of press interest; Schechter and Schildkrout stole the show at New York Tech Meetup in July 2010.
With that momentum, they raised a $3.2 million Series A round led by RRE in September 2010.
For the past year, HowAboutWe has been quietly chugging along. It relaunched nationally last December and released an iPhone app in June. Within the first week, 50,000 people downloaded the app.
HowAboutWe has also been securing publisher partnerships. It powers personal pages for more than 15 publishers including New York Magazine and Parenting.com and takes a cut of the revenue.
That's just one form of monetization for the startup. Its subscriber base is steadily growing and HowAboutWe gets more than 1,600 new users per day.
HowAboutWe has grown tremendously with its team of 16 people and without much capital. Last October users sent 24,138 messages on the dating site. Last month 302,047 messages were sent. More than 400,000 dates have been posted on HowAboutWe since its launch.
The past year has been a growth story for the dating site, but what lies ahead is more exciting.
HowAboutWe is one of the few dating sites that wants to reach people of all relationship statuses. It's been working on a product, TheDateBook, which will become a dating resource for every couple, whether they've been together for three weeks or 30 years.
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"We're building a great way for people too go out on great dates -- both for people in relationships and for people who want to be in them," says Schechter. "We have a kickass online dating business and we know how to grow this thing in a very big way."
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You must have been in a very forgiving mood when you wrote this.I would like to see, and participate in, a Summit for Peace in which Scientologists and Critics meet for three days and begin to talk out our differences. Prices are way down for meetings. Everyone pays their own way and both sides mutually declare whatever resort we meet at to be neutral ground, a Geneva.
I suggest Palm Springs or Rancho Mirage in April. We could have a lunch on top of Mount San Jacinto.
Is it possible that Scientologists and Critics could meet and communicate? I say yes. There is no reason why a Summit could not be held.
You are an enigma, J. Swift. One minute you can slice scientology into a delicious, tasty snack for all to enjoy, and the next minute you can calm the tide in perfect Zen formation. You never cease to amaze me. In stealth perfection, constantly moving between worlds, from bare knuckle, scientology "unreasonable", to gentleman diplomacy, you travel in style, my man. I can't help it, I'm an unabashed fan.
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JACK'S STORY (Bladder Sludge and Bladder Stone - Calcium Oxalate)
In June of 2009 Jack had surgery to get a large bladder stone removed. The stone was tested - turned out to be a Calcium Oxalate Stone. Reoccurrences of this stone can happen. There is a medicine that may help with the prevention of reoccurrences of Calcium Oxalates Stones called Potassium Citrate; However, so far with vet prescribed diet changes, his follow-up urinalyses and exams show no signs of problems as of yet. We will continue to test a few times a year.
How we discovered Jack had a stone: Unlike many rabbits who may have stones, Jack never showed discomfort nor did he strain to urinate, and his perfect habits remained the same. However, he was getting very humpy with Vivian - more so than normal. And who knows, this could have been his way of showing discomfort. Soon after his increased activity, I noticed dark red urine that didn't look like the "normal red" urine that bunnies can sometimes get. It looked like blood, so I soaked it up with a paper towel, and took him to see the vet. Sure enough it was blood. Via a physical examination, a stone was suspected, and x-rays confirmed it. The explanation for the blood was that the stone was rubbing up against the bladder wall when Jack was running around like a crazy bunny and mounting. This caused scraping and little tears in the lining which then caused blood in the urine.
Why did Jack get a bladder stone? Many people are under the impression that stones are caused by too much calcium in the diet. Not too long ago, I thought the same thing! But most rabbits successfully excrete excess calcium, while others have a much harder time. So why do some rabbits, like Jack, have a harder time processing calcium? The answer is really more complicated that what I can answer here, but after speaking with my rabbit-savvy vet and doing a little research, and googling "bladder stone in rabbits", the simplified answer is "genetics" and/or a type of illness, like Metabolic Bone Disease. I am also continuing to learn as I continue to research. Here's a helpful article if you want to more read more about it: Bladder Stones and Bladder Sludge in Rabbits
Note: JACK's diet is for reference ONLY so you can consult with your vet and come up with the right plan for YOUR bunny. There is more than one type of bladder stone. Calcium Oxalates Stones are just one type.
The most important part of his diet is plenty of hydration! His diet's main purpose is to supply plenty of nutrition in the most hydrated way.
Hay: Nothing changes with this. Timothy, Orchard, Blue and Oat.
No Pellets: (gradually decreased). It's not that my pellets were bad, (I had a very good timothy based brand that was highly recommended by vets), it's just that it doesn't help facilitate the hydration rule. Pellets are dry condensed
Large Variety of Greens and Veggies: Since pellets are not part of the diet anymore I have to not only add more greens but more variety to supplement. Serve greens wet -
Water: To encourage more water intake, along with his regular bowl of water, he gets a second bowl that has a 10% apple juice mix. We were instructed to start out with a a 50/50 juice water mix if Jack wouldn't drink the lower percentage mix, and then slowly decrease to 10%. I found that Jack will drink the whole bowl (more than two cupfuls) of that if I let him, but the vet said I don't have to keep refilling the flavored bowl. Just once day is fine. Again, THIS is NOT recommended for bunnies who don't have calcium issues, as of course Apple Juice is higher in sugar, even the most natural organic kind you can get. This worked very well while he continued to drink so much of it. NOTE: (He later developed an unrelated cancer that affected his appetite as you will read below -- we didn't know at the time why though he stopped drinking it when we wrote it, but it is still great info for those bunnies that are not able to hydrate through diet)
Jack went back to old ways of not drinking much water - not even the flavored water. I started to notice his urine getting more white after that, so the vet recommended a salt lick or salt substitute to sprinkle on his greens to encourage more water intake. He was not interested in the salt-lick and didn't care for the lightly "salted" greens. So that didn't work for Jack.
He used to drink two cups of flavored water a day in addition to his wet greens and his urine looked nice and clear. But these last few months he'd consume a half a cup of water at the very most per day. His urine started to become thicker and sludgy. He would sit in a strange position sometimes (like he wasn't comfortable), and he urinated outside of the box much more, his appetite decreased a bit, and he just wasn't quite himself --- so off to the vet we went. He had a urinalysis which showed higher calcium. His bladder was expressed and little bit of sludge came out. He had xrays as well. No stones which is great, but sludge is still a problem that needs to be managed. (Note: Something I learned at the vets about sludge and xrays: Sludge can be seen on xrays - looks whitish, but normal rabbit urine in the bladder can many times show up the same way on an xray - so xrays alone may not be able to diagnose sludge - it's more of a tool used in conjunction with other symptoms to help confirm a diagnosis)
He is now on Subcutaneous fluid once day for 2 weeks to help flush his system out. He's very good during it as he gets lots of bunny rubs and tons of affection during it, and it only takes about five minutes.
We have a follow-up appointment with the vet next week to discuss a long-term management plan. I'll keep you updated. For now though, he's doing very well and his urine looks better already.
6/11/10: Jack's urine, though higher in calcium, was at a much better level. We are now doing Sub-q fluids twice a week on average. (or more if we notice the thicker white excretions)
May 2011: Jack passed away from cancer - unrelated to his calcium issue.


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A legislative hearing later this month will look at whether lawmakers should consider holding organizations that receive public money accountable when it comes to labor disputes like the current NHL lockout.
Rep. Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, said the hearing Jan. 23 will examine the economic impact of the NHL lockouts, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
"All of which have reached out to the state or to their local governments asking for money," he said on The Daily Circuit. "They've made promises of economic activity, they've made promises of supporting the community, of job growth, and when they do that, and then they make those promises and fail to carry that out. That costs us."
Atkins said non-partisan House research estimated that the NHL work stoppage has already cost nearly $6 million in lost state and local tax revenue.
The state and city of St. Paul paid $130 million to help finance the Xcel Energy Center where the Minnesota Wild play. The orchestras have been receiving yearly operating support from the state, including Legacy Amendment funds.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Jacksonville International Airport was shut down for nearly five hours, stranding incoming planeloads of passengers on the tarmac and delaying outgoing flights after police found two suspicious packages, one of which was deemed "destructive" and had to be deactivated offsite by a bomb squad.
The airport was evacuated shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday when police found one suspicious package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Shannon Hartley told a news conference at 11 p.m., just after the airport reopened.
Hartley said one of the packages "had some destructive nature that ... had to be taken offsite," but he did not elaborate.
He would not say which of the packages was destructive, and said he could not confirm local news media reports that two suspects had been arrested.
CBS Jacksonville affiliate WTEV-TV quotes a viewer who was there as saying people calmly left the terminal and there was no sense of panic. Police were inside the terminal directing people outside, the viewer said.
When authorities decided to evacuate the terminal and shut down the airport, some incoming planes were held up on the tarmac until buses could arrive to pick up the passengers, airport spokesman Michael Stewart said. He could not say how many planes were held up or for how long. Airport officials tweeted shortly after the evacuation that passengers on inbound flights would be bused to offsite hotels as transportation became available.
At least one plane was preparing to depart at the time of the evacuation, but Stewart said he did not know if it already had pulled away from the gate at the time of the evacuation. No flights were allowed to take off following the evacuation.
With the airport reopening, Stewart said individual airlines would determine how to restart their operations. "The airlines will work to ensure all passengers will receive their luggage," the airport tweeted on its official Twitter site.
Arlie Gentry arrived on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York via Baltimore just before 6:30 p.m.
"We moved from one spot on the runway to another spot," said Gentry, reached by telephone while he was still sitting on the plane. "They told us we couldn't get off the plane."
The pilots couldn't initially tell the passengers why, claiming they didn't know themselves, Gentry said.
Gentry said the delay was cumbersome and bothersome, but everyone on his plane remained calm. He said he was never really concerned for his safety, because the plane remained so far from the terminal.
Gentry said a bus arrived about 9:30 p.m. to start taking passengers to a nearby hotel. Gentry's sisters had been waiting in the parking lot for several hours and were planning to take him back to Gainesville.


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If you have read this blog for a while you know my view about belts and rank. I probably sound like a one note song on this subject.
Krista De Castella, a student at Sensei Morio Higaonna's Naha dojo recently wrote about this subject at her Memoirs of a Grasshopper blog. See:
I remember that when Higaonna Sensei visited my dojo, he asked why so many students wore white belts. When I explained that I give no kyu ranks and that all students wear white belts until they become shodan, he gave a big happy smile.
Last night at our dojo, we used belts in an excercise to "twist and wind" when beginning a block. Two people held belts and a student pulled on the belts using his lats and back muscles. This is almost like lifting weights with a cable machine... but with belts and partners instead of weights.
Now to me, that's a good use of belts!
Charles C. Goodin


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Akron uses second-half surge to beat Detroit 79-60
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Demetrius Treadwell had 22 points with 13 rebounds and Nyles Evans contributed 17 points to lift Akron past Detroit 79-60 Wednesday night.
The Zips (5-2) overcame a 30-21 halftime deficit, opening the second half on a 9-0 run as Evans, Quincy Diggs and Reggie McAdams each hit 3-pointers to knot up the score. Akron continued the surge, moving out to a 60-42 lead with 9:23 remaining as Jake Kretzer drained a trio of 3-pointers.
Detroit (5-7) had opened the game with a 9-0 lead and had a 14-point advantage in the first half after a Juwan Howard Jr. jumper. They trailed by as much as 19 in the second half and finished 36.1 percent from the field to Akron's 48.1 shooting percentage.
Kretzer had 11 points and Diggs added 10 with seven assists for the Zips.
Anton Wilson paced the Titans with 16 points and Howard Jr. chipped in 13.


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I have this vision of some idiot spending hours online joining forums and planting garbage for hour upon hour each day. Can it really be financially viable?


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Thank you, readers, for coming through as never before at Christmas for thousands of needy children and elderly residents.
Contributions to The Charlotte Observer's annual Empty Stocking Fund this year surged to a new record: $362,750. That's an increase of about 20 percent, compared with last year.
Also, more of you donated, and in larger amounts, than last year.
For more than 90 years, the fund has helped the Salvation Army's Christmas bureau provide gifts for those least fortunate. This year, families of nearly 12,000 children registered with the bureau after documenting their financial need. The bureau also assisted seniors registered in its Silver Bells program.
Over the past month, Observer reporter Mark Price has written about the wide range of circumstances that led people to stand in line overnight in the cold in hopes of being registered. Many had lost jobs or faced staggering medical bills. Often, families needed help for children they had rescued from neglect.
Price said he was gratified that readers decided these recipients deserved a helping hand.
"I admire our readers," Price said. "They were willing to take the leap of faith."
As of Friday, 2,534 individuals and groups had contributed to the fund, a 12 percent increase over last year. Donations ranged from $5 to $10,000 and averaged $143, versus $131 in 2013.
All who donated were invited to be listed in print and online. Many took the opportunity to recognize others who similarly had shown them compassion. "In memory of our mothers," wrote one donor. "In honor of our teachers," wrote another. "In honor of my great-grandchildren," wrote another.
There was also this, attached to one donation. "To whom much is given, much is required."
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This past week, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiations here in Nagoya have been very active as we prepare for the arrival of high-level ministers from countries around the world to finalize an ambitious international treaty for long-term biodiversity conservation.
Many Conservation International (CI) staff, including myself, are able to play a unique role in shaping the negotiations. Not only are many of us employees of CI, but we also sit on country delegations directly involved in the treaty negotiations. I am sitting on the delegation from Costa Rica, while some of my colleagues are representing Ecuador, Brazil, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia, to name a few. Several other CI representatives are also here helping to educate a variety of other country delegations by providing critical scientific and policy advice.
During negotiations on one aspect of the Strategic Plan—the list of post-2010 biodiversity conservation targets that will be the final outcome of the conference—there was disagreement among the negotiators around the species extinction target. I volunteered to lead discussions amongst a smaller group and make a proposal to the larger group. During these side discussions, I was joined by a few other key negotiators to lead this group to agreement around an ambitious new target calling for the prevention of extinction of threatened species around the world! This target was then accepted by the other delegates—and now awaits final approval.
Out of the 20 targets under negotiation, there is general agreement on approximately half of them, which undoubtedly means good news for nature. As a team, we are all working hard to make more progress this coming week—especially on the all important "Target 11," which states our goal of protecting 25 percent of terrestrial and freshwater areas and 15 percent of marine areas by 2020.
Any meeting involving many countries trying to agree on collective actions is a complicated and demanding process, and those of us here in Nagoya have had our share of sleepless nights. Yet I am confident that CI's efforts this past year have added many good ideas to this international discussion—and people seem to be listening.


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subrahmaniam tangirala
posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:05 pm
I have an observed variable (i.e., X).
I wanted to decompose this variable into two latent variable parts (i.e., Xwij and Xbj) in my two-level model, and examine the effects of the level 2 assessment of X on my level 1 dependent variable (e.g., Ludkte et al., 2008, Psych Methods).
Hence, following the user manual (pg 230-231), I did not list X either in the within or the between statements. This allowed me to model X both in the within and between levels of my two-level model. Consequently, I was able to examine how level-2 assessment of x (i.e., Xbj) has a main effect on my level-1 Dependent variable.
However, now, I want to, go further, and test the interaction effect of the level-2 latent variable part (i.e., Xbj) with an observed between-level variable (e.g., Z) on my level-1 dependent variable.
Can you kindly guide me on how to test this interaction.
I tried creating a product term between X (where X is not specified as either a within or a between variable) and Z (specified as a between variable) using XWITH. But, I got an error message stating that I need to use the DEFINE function. However, I am not sure that I want to use the DEFINE function because I want to specifically create an interaction term between the level-2 "latent" assessment of X (i.e., Xbj) and an observed variable.
Any help would be much appreciated
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 8:46 am
Try the following where I put a latent variable behind the between part of x that is identical to the between part of x:
u ON x;
f BY x;
w ;
int | f XWITH w;
u ON w f int;
subrahmaniam tangirala
posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 6:08 pm
Thanks, Linda! This solution worked.
Nicole Nugent
posted on Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 9:02 am
I would like to decompose an observed interaction term that is predicting intercept in a growth model. In other software programs, I have done this ala Jaccard & Turkesi using variance, covariance, and unstandardized slopes (B) etc to plot the slopes of high and low levels of the components of the interaction term. Most of these values appear easily accessed in MPlus output (assuming that I can use the unstandardized Estimate term as B values). For some reason, I'm having trouble ascertaining the unstandardized B regression model constant. Can you please point me to where to find this output or to another way to decompose my interaction?
Thank you in advance!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 - 10:01 am
The unstandardized intercept is under Intercepts in the results. If you are using an older version of the program, you may need to add TYPE=MEANSTRUCTURE to the ANALYSIS command.
Nicole Nugent
posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 6:08 am
Thanks for your help - indeed it was clearly indicated when I loaded my Version 5 - along with many other helpful points if information (i.e., p values, additional error information, etc). Thanks again for this amazing software and for your generosity with your time and skill.
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Not Return Void (Africa Journal #4)
Logistics intimidate me. Had I been present at the sermon that preceded the feeding of the five thousand I wouldn't have heard a word. My mind would have been rather occupied with that one burning question — How are we …Read More
Contextualize This (Africa Journal #3)
I scanned my notes rather quickly, looking for problems. I would soon be preaching amidst a gathering throng of Kenyans. Was there an allusion somewhere in here to America culture? Were there idioms that would make no sense to these …Read More
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One of the great blessings of my calling is that I am called to travel far and wide from time to time. Over the course of little more than a year, I have traveled to teach in the United Kingdom …Read More
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Snoop Dogg + Rita Ora Star in 'Christmas Carol' Reenactment for Adidas
It's the holiday season and what better way to celebrate it than Snoop Dogg's retelling of the Charles Dickens classic 'A Christmas Carol.' The Doggfather teamed up with Adidas to present this cautionary tale, which co-stars soccer great David Beckman, singer Rita Ora and NBA star Derrick Rose.
In the video, Snoop introduces the cartoon, which features himself as the grouchy Ebenezer Snoop who lost the holiday spirit. "Bah humbizzle," he barks. He's then visited by the ghost of Christmas past (played by the late tennis icon Stan Smith) and the ghost of Christmas present (played by Beckman) who try to instill the holiday shizzle into Snoop's life.
Still not thrilled about celebrating the holidays, Ebenezer Snoop gets one more visit from the ghosts of Christmas future (played by Ora and Rose). "You've been bah humbizzling so hard, it's going to take harmony and hoops to scare the holiday spirit back into yooou," Ora sings.
The ghosts show Snoop the future in which no music would exist. This scares the be-jizzle out of Snoop and promises to make amends for his bah-humbizzle ways. He crashes a party carrying food and drinks and apologizes for his selfish behavior. "I realize we are nothing without each other," says Snoop. "Parties aren't an excuse to get wild, they are a celebration from near and far."
At the end, Ebenezer Snoop got the party crunk and had everybody singing along to his G-funk Christmas jam 'Gin and Eggnog.'
Well, not quite. But you get the picture. Don't be a scrooge!
Happy holidays, PopCrushers!


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This ROM is based of the joined effort of a couple of devs (Cass, Eduardo, Corvus, Scanno and Brucelee666) who are working on getting ICS as good as possible for our device. This has resulted in a git repository where all the specific files and patches are located that are needed to compile the Android 4.0.4 AOSP source code and create a working ROM.
I am trying to keep the git repository up-to-date so that all the devs that would to compile the AOSP source code can use the repository to build a good working base rom and put effort in improving the ROM instead of figuring everything out themselves.
I am making VegaCream because i would like to have done this and have some knowledge about making roms. I am working in the IT business for almost 20 years and like many i have a professional and personal life. That means that if i am lucky i have 8 hours per week that i can spend time on this ROM. My wife, my child and my own health are more important then this ROM, so lets keep everything simple and nice. This is supposed to be fun and a hobby (at least it is for me). Let's keep it that way.
This ROM is based on AOSP 4.0.4 and the device config made by Cass, Eduardo, Corvus and myself (see https://github.com/vegaics).
- DPI is set at 120dpi
- Default ICS Launcher installed
- Apex Launcher installed
- Filemanager installed
- Terminal installed
- Google Apps is installed. This means that the Google base is installed and all the apps that are available in the Play Store are not installed (i.e. GMail, Maps)
- All languages that are available in AOSP are included
- Partition layout is the same as VegaICS beta1 / Modded stock
- /system/app, /system/lib, /system/fonts, /system/framework and /system/usr are Squashfs filesystems.
With BETA2 there are two ways of installing VegaCream:
- Installing the CWM update zip from recovery
- Using the NVFLASH windows executable.
Use the CWM update zip when you are sure that you have the correct partition layout (modded stock or VegaICS). Always do a *Full Wipe* BEFORE installing the zip file.
Use the NVFLASH installer when you are not sure if you have the correct partition layout or want to repartition and format your NAND. Put your tablet in nvflash mode (back-power-back) and run the exe in windows.
*ATTENTION* The Install zip is *BETA* and it does not have nice text or a good working progress bar. My primary efforts are going to the ROM itself at the moment.
VegaCream is now on the same level as VegaICS beta1 is. That means it has the same stuff working but it has also the same things that do not work and / or the same problems.
- Wifi (same connection problems as VegaICS beta1)
- Bluetooth (Did not test a lot, but it pairs and communicates)
- (P)EAP (I could connect to the enterprise wifi AP that is available at my work, it connects and could update my apps through the Play Store. The Signal Strength indicator is NOT working when connected to that AP)
- Camera (same as VegaICS beta1)
- 3G (most huawei 3G modems)
All hardware should be working now
- Cass
- Eduardo
- Corvus
- Scanno
- Brucelee666
- Areo