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On this the 51st anniversary of the founding of African Liberation Day, we join Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, as well as other peoples around the world, to remember and pay rightful homage, reflect and recommit ourselves to freeing and empowering the people and continuing and strengthening the struggle to achieve this. And thus, we begin by sending greetings of solidarity and sustained struggle to our African brothers and sisters everywhere, and to all oppressed, struggling, freedom-loving and freedom-seeking peoples of the world. For we understand and appreciate the ethical teachings of our ancestors that African liberation is indivisible and that all real and righteous struggles for human liberation are interrelated and vital to bringing good into the world.
Let us also pay rightful and repeated homage to the men and women who waged the difficult and demanding struggle for African independence, all the heroes, heroines, martyrs and veterans who struggled to free the land and peoples of Africa. And let us also pay rightful and repeated homage to the women and men of similar consciousness, courage and commitment who waged the parallel and interrelated freedom struggles in the diaspora, those who gave their lives and made awesome sacrifices to free our people from oppression's and constraints of various kinds and to advance the cause of African and human freedom in the world.
Also, let us pay a special homage to those who still continue the struggles to truly free and empower African people and who refuse to be seduced or sidetracked by new and disguised forms of oppression, packaged as progress, partnership and the only practical and possible way forward. For there is increasing talk afloat about Africa's writing a new narrative of itself and of things being improved and progress being made, conducted by those who confuse their presence with progress, their self-serving statistics with the real state of things, and their robbery of resources with an enriching experience for the masses.
And so, we hear claims that seven out of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa; that Africa is second only to Asia in its rate of economic growth; that extreme poverty is declining; that international investment and agricultural productivity are increasing; and that deadly and devastating diseases are slowly, but surely, being brought under control. Moreover, it is reported that even armed conflict has declined in number and intensity. Let us be positive enough to recognize and show respect for any gains and good achieved by the masses of our people, through their work, sacrifice and struggles on every front. But let us be careful not to declare achievement in its absence or claim more than can be measured in the quality and content of the daily life of everyday people.
Indeed, no matter how happy and hopeful we are and can rightly be, we must always and everywhere ask in every report of success or achievement, what does all this really mean for the people? Second, what does it really do for them or to them in their daily lives? And equally important, as Frantz Fanon tells, we must ask how do the people actually participate in this reported success, i.e., in planning it, creating it and benefiting from it? In political education and political practice, Fanon informs us, we must "make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens". Thus, if success, progress, prosperity, growth, development or whatever name it is called, is to be real and relevant, then, it must be part of the history the people self-consciously conceive, create and experience personally and collectively as a rightful and deserved result and benefit of their own work and struggle.
So, it is not simply a matter of achieving nice sounding statistics of growth and development without talking about whether there is an increase in capacities of the people and whether they receive any benefits from this vaunted statistical PR portrait. For as it turns out, the agricultural productivity is mainly for export for others, not for the people themselves; and the small farmers, predominantly women, are being rapidly driven out of the process. Also, a vast amount of productive land is being gobbled up by foreign corporations and countries, and alienated from its African owners; and the rich resource of mineral wealth of African people is being mercilessly plundered by international corporations, foreign countries, collaborating elites and the proxy thug armies they covertly assemble to advance their predatory interests.
Certainly, we need not be cynical to see the deception and dishonesty in corporate and collaborating elite "progress parades". But if this long, difficult and demanding struggle for African liberation has taught us anything, it is that we must measure the morality and material progress of any society by what it does for the masses of the people, especially the poor and most vulnerable. And we also know that trickle down theories are bogus and designed for the benefit of the rich, that providing comfortable places in oppression for a collaborating elite is not progress or praiseworthy, and that robbing the people of their rightful resources and wealth can be in no way construed as justice or good. And so, there is still work to do and struggles to wage and we cannot grow weary, waver or walk away from the battlefield until the struggle is won. Africa is indeed confronted with continuing paradoxes. It is the richest continent in the world and yet home to some of the world's poorest people; blessed with enriching diversity, yet plagued with disabling division; and the oldest continent with the youngest population, struggling with a legacy of oppression that has constrained its future promise.
But we, as Africans, cannot doubt that we can eventually solve the major problems that confront us: the building and keeping of peace; the security of persons and peoples; food security and sustainable food systems; the strengthening of the respect and defense of the dignity and rights of women; the effective education and protection of youth; relief and reintegration of refugees; rightful engagement of our best minds; halting of the wholesale selling of the continent and degradation of the environment; and the achievement of democracy, continental unity and prosperity for all. This is our continuing task and struggle and our people deserve no less. Only then can Africa play the pivotal and powerful role history assigned it from its earliest days in Kemet as: navel of the world, temple of the world, and light of the world, shining, as Marcus Garvey envisioned it, as "a bright star among the constellation of nations in the world".
Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies,
California State University-Long Beach, Executive Director, African American
Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa; and author of Kwanzaa: A
Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black
Studies, 4th Edition, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org; www.MaulanaKarenga.org


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An eager audience forgoing sleep to take in the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" instead were witnesses Friday to a bloody mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater. Police said a man clad in black threw a canister that spewed smoke before he opened fire. Witnesses said that at first, they thought it was a prank or a stunt. Then the gunman shot steadily at the audience, not speaking.
The man suspected in the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film early Friday had colored his hair red and told police he was "the Joker," according to a federal law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation.
At least 12 people were killed in the rampage and 59 were wounded.
…Witnesses to the shooting described him as wearing a gas mask that concealed much of his face and head. But the federal law enforcement source's information about the suspect's appearance fits with a statement from New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who was briefed by Colorado authorities Friday. …
Police say Holmes, 24, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.
Jordan told the paper that one girl was struck in cheek, others in stomach including a girl who looked to be around 9-years-old. …
"Like little explosions going on and shortly after that we heard people screaming," he told the station. …
The youngest victim reported was a 6-year-old being treated at Children's Hospital Colorado, where a total of six victims were taken. Their condition wasn't known.
Now, even as we learn how this happened and who's responsible, we may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. But while we will never know fully what causes somebody to take the life of another, we do know what makes life worth living. The people we lost in Aurora loved, and they were loved. They were mothers and fathers; they were husbands and wives; sisters and brothers; sons and daughters, friends and neighbors. They had hopes for the future, and they had dreams that were not yet fulfilled.
And if there's anything to take away from this tragedy, it's the reminder that life is very fragile. Our time here is limited, and it is precious. And what matters at the end of the day is not the small things, it's not the trivial things, which so often consume us and our daily lives. Ultimately, it's how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another.
"Our hearts break with the sadness of this unspeakable tragedy," Romney said, according to a rush transcript. "Ann and I join the president and first lady and all Americans in offering our deepest condolences for those whose lives were shattered in a few moments, a few moments of evil, in Colorado. I stand before you today not as a man running for office but as a father and grandfather, a husband, an American. This is a time for each of us to look into our hearts and remember how much we love one another and how much we love and how much we care for our great country. There's so much love and goodness in the heart of America."
The telegenic schoolmarms we call pundits are all denouncing the politicization of the tragedy in Aurora, calling out the crass opportunists who would dare to use human suffering to advance their preferred public policy choices. I feel terrible about what happened in that movie theater, and I'm agnostic about gun control, but there is nothing wrong with politicizing tragedy.
The talking heads don't like it, because they think of politics as a silly game about who sang out of tune and whose words can be used against them and whose surrogate undercut whose message, but politics is about life and death and human suffering. At least that's what it should be about. …
…But politics matters, because policies matter. "Obamacare" and "gay marriage" are not just issues that might play badly with swing voters or turn the tide in Virginia; they're issues that affect people's lives. Gun control and the Second Amendment are issues, too, and now seems like a pretty good time to talk about them.
"Soothing words are nice," Bloomberg said during a regularly scheduled appearance on WOR 710 AM in New York. "But maybe it's time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they're going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country. And everybody always says, 'Isn't it tragic?'"
"I mean, there's so many murders with guns every day," Bloomberg continued. "It's just gotta stop. And instead of these two people, President [Barack] Obama and Governor [Mitt] Romney talking in broad things about, they want to make the world a better place. OK, tell us how. And this is a problem. No matter where you stand on the Second Amendment, no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from both of them, concretely, not just in generalities, specifically, what are they going to do about guns?"
The only fitting response to a terrible crime like this is silence or prayer. The idea that acts of mass murder reflect Hollywood violence is absurd; you can't get more violent than King Lear. It's true that guns are more convenient than hatchets as mass-murder weapons; they are also more convenient for self-defense. Defense and attack are generally on par in the long blood-stain of human history, and this is the wrong moment for political agitation for or against gun control. (If such laws really did "control" guns it might be different. But as matters stand, if we outlaw guns, we had better outlaw crime also.) A whole generation has been reared, in many parts of society, without the moral compass of biblical religion. Does that make any difference to the rate of violent crime? I don't know and, again, this is the wrong moment to argue about it. In human life, savagery is a given. God knows we all wish it weren't.


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Monday, April 29, 2013
Tactical Studies Hobbies, an Oddity in Letterhead
In mid-1975, the partnership of Tactical Studies Rules underwent a transformation into TSR Hobbies, Inc. A number of factors motivated this transition, including the need to reorganize following the death of Don Kaye, as well as the company's increasing ambitions in the mail-order and retail hobby sales business (the first steps towards the Dungeon Hobby Shop). The newly-constituted TSR Hobbies, Inc. acquired the assets of Tactical Studies Rules, and work on game development proceeded under the TSR Hobbies, Inc. umbrella. If, however, you received mail from TSR at just the right time in 1975, you might have found the oddity shown here: the transitional name "Tactical Studies Hobbies." To explore the territory around this curious company-that-never-was, let's take a tour of TSR's early letterheads.
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Dalluhn Manuscript: In Detail and On Display
It's been a few months since I've discussed the Dalluhn Manuscript here. In the intervening time, I have conducted a more thorough study of the document, consulted with forensics experts and early gamers, and assembled my findings to date into a paper that I present here along with a few exhibits [updated December 2015]. Those brave few who have complained that they found PatW too short may take solace in this substantial addition. Like the book, this appendix is dense, scholarly reading, but I'm working on a friendlier account that I hope will appear soon (EDIT: in issue #2 of Gygax magazine). For the impatient, I provide a high-level introduction to the evidence below. I believe the paper establishes that the Dalluhn Manuscript preserves the earliest currently known version of the game of Dungeons & Dragons. (EDIT: click here for more confirmation derived from the recent recovery a 1973 Gygax working draft of D&D.)
The publication of this "interim appendix" coincides with a development in the availability of the Dalluhn Manuscript: I have loaned the original copy of this to the National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. It goes on display there this coming weekend, on April 13th, 2013, as a feature of their Game Time! exhibit, along with many other interesting artifacts from the history of modern gaming. If want to see it first hand, do drop by; there are plenty of other amazing pieces of history on display.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
A Visit to Pack Monadnock
Well, I guess it already does, in general I have always tried to keep it motorcycle centric. But that is not always the focus of my life. So this year, I think I will expand content a bit more.
With a bonus day off today and sunny cold weather, I needed to head outdoors.
One of my 11 New Year's Resolutions for '11 is to discover and visit more New Hampshire Parks. I decided to visit a nearby favorite Miller State Park home of Pack Monadnock in Peterborough, NH.
On a clear day, you can almost see tomorrow
Isn't New Hampshire beautiful? What a place to sit back and think about what is ahead for the year.
You can keep your gym membership, I'd rather take a walk
Here's the riding reference: Setting up for the turn
Curves Ahead - walk with caution
Two other items on my list of 11: Develop photography and Photoshop skills! Did you make a list? I want to be able to look back on 2011 with a sense of accomplishment - thus the list.
Don't be locked out of discovering all of your potential this year!
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- D. Brent Miller said...
Gail, I think you might be experiencing what I went through last year. I do so much more than motorcycle. Although Sojourn Chronicles had some faithful followers, I think I have converted most of them to my other web site, DBrentMiller.com, where I can showcase my professional work and still be a human being. Motorcycling is just a small portion of what I want to write about. I never wanted to be a moto journalist. I prefer to be a travel writer ... sometimes on a motorcycle. And since I've been doing more audio and photography work AND getting paid for it, it just doesn't fit on Sojourn Chronicles.
Good luck with your posts. I'll still be reading. --Brent
- Monday, January 03, 2011 7:42:00 PM
- SheRidesABeemer said...
You are right on with your comment Brent. I don't follow your blog 'cause you are a FB friend! Easier to follow you there. But yeah, the one dimensional gets tired, I can tell by the obvious decline in entries in the blog. I think I will rework the banner and mission a little this year. I like to write. I like to tell stories. My mode of transport happens to interest a lot of people. :)
- Monday, January 03, 2011 7:59:00 PM
- BeemerGirl said...
I understand the struggle. I don't think your readers will mind if you update the formatting a little. :)
Great park! I love New Hampshire was disappointed at having to cancel my trip a couple years ago. Oh well. I will hopefully live the enjoyment for awhile through you.
Great images to go along with your hike and prose.
- Monday, January 03, 2011 8:34:00 PM
- Baron's Life said...
I think you're a very good writer and your blog is already not a 100% motorcycle blog as you involve your personal life and emotions, etc...Having said that...you have a very good motorcycle/life blog...for instance we know, your daugther now is driving and you have traveled all over with her.
I have always tried to make my blog a mix of life and biking in order to give the public a feeling that not all riders are bums, most of us are educated, hold down good jobs, support families and live ordinary lives just like joe blo next door. Just follow your gut feeling and go for it...BTW, I love your photography
- Monday, January 03, 2011 9:37:00 PM
- RichardM said...
That looks like a nice walk. I've never been to New England in the winter nor seen much of it during the summer. I initially started reading your blog due to links from other moto sites but enjoy all the stories and photo stream.
But then again my own blog sort of wanders all over the place.
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011 2:35:00 AM
Il semble que vous soyez un expert dans ce domaine, vos remarques sont tres interessantes, merci.
- Daniel
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:19:00 PM
- Bluekat said...
I've asked myself the same question on blog entries. What makes the perfect balance? I'm initially drawn to a blog because of the particular content, but once I become a regular visitor, I enjoy hearing about other aspects of the authors life. Great pics and write up. The snowy, curvy road looks very inviting for a walk.
I love this statement...
"On a clear day, you can almost see tomorrow"
- Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:54:00 AM
- EddyQ said...
Those pics of Pack bring back some memories. Way back, every ride past there my buddies and I would ride to the summit. Then they started charging a fee and we now ride by.
Then the pic of Monadnock brings back memories of a snow shoe hike to the summit. Really nice. That also was quite a while ago. Weird thing is, those exact snowshoes fell apart with this last snow. I just bought a new pair and the same day I saw your pic.
Ever snowshoe? If not, you should try it.
- Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:53:00 PM
- irondad said...
I know what you mean. My motorcycle blog became a grandchild photo blog for a bit. Do what interests you. That's what makes a blog live.
This year's plan is to start making some income from photography. It would be nice to open that locked gate!
- Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:05:00 PM
- Unknown said...
I try to keep mine about motorcycles, too. Sometimes it's a loose affiliation - that seems to work alright. You can always make a new blog, too. It seems like quite a few folk are running more than one. By the way, is that a Canon T1? Looks oddly familiar...
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Functional imaging for patients with spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative disorders has had definite limitations and has focused mainly on the cervical spinal cord.
A researcher with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Junqian (Gordon) Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, has been awarded a two-year, $150,000 Research Scholar Grant from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research & Education Foundation. With this grant, Dr. Xu intends to develop a more reliable technique to provide images of the entire spinal cord and to develop protocols for more advanced applications of functional and diffusion MRI to not only more accurately diagnose spinal cord abnormalities, but also to provide better measures of prognosis and disease progression. The goal of the project is to extend beyond the cervical region to cover more of the entire spinal cord.
"Current quantitative functional MRI imaging studies do not define the full extent of spinal cord damage or quantitate residual spinal cord function," said Dr. Xu. He hopes to overcome these limitations, permitting faster, more reliable assessments of tissue integrity and function for the entire spinal cord.For patients with spinal cord injuries, Dr. Xu explained that this would mean better assessments of how well rehabilitation programs and therapies are working. For patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, it potentially could better predict how a patient's disease will progress.
Burton P. Drayer, MD, the Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor and Chair of Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, praised Dr. Xu's research. "The field of neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injury would benefit from more reliable, faster, and comprehensive functional and structural imaging techniques, and Dr. Xu's research will help advance these goals," said Dr. Drayer.
Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Director of the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, complimented Dr. Xu for his award. "We at TMII strongly believe that the first step of a good therapy is a good diagnostic. We feel Dr. Xu work is contributing to this vision. We are grateful for the support of the RSNA which enables this work to be completed."
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Calvert, Dave (2017) Book Review: Disability Theatre and Modern Drama by Kirsty Johnston. New Theatre Quarterly, 33 (1). pp. 92-93. ISSN 0266-464X
Calvert, Dave (2016) Disability, care and debility: radically reframing the collaboration between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers. In: Disability, Arts and Health, 1st - 2nd September 2016, Bergen, Norway. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2016) Book Review: Applied Theatre - Aesthetics, edited by Gareth White. New Theatre Quarterly, 32 (2). pp. 199-200. ISSN 0266-464X
Calvert, Dave (2016) Jokes as performance text: a close reading of Rat Pack banter. Comedy Studies, 7 (1). pp. 38-47. ISSN 2040-610X
Calvert, Dave (2016) 'Everything has a fucking value': Negative Dialectics in the Work of Back to Back Theatre. Contemporary Theatre Review, 26 (2). pp. 134-152. ISSN 1048-6801
Calvert, Dave (2015) Heroism and heroic action in applied and social theatre: a selection of provocations from TaPRA's Applied and Social Theatre working group. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 20 (2). pp. 173-176. ISSN 1356-9783
Calvert, Dave (2015) MASHED and SHAMED: a new approach to the acronym. In: When the writing is on the wall: a discussion of the ecology of research, creativity, impact and value, 9th May 2015, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. (Unpublished)
Low, Katharine E. and Calvert, Dave (2015) Conference Review: Heroism and the Heroic in Applied and Social Theatre. Journal of Arts and Communities, 20 (2). pp. 173-176. ISSN 1757-1936
Calvert, Dave (2015) Mind the Gap. In: British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014. Bloomsbury, London, UK, pp. 127-154. ISBN 9781408177273
Calvert, Dave (2015) Similar hats on similar heads: uniformity and alienation at the Rat Pack's Summit Conference of Cool. Popular Music, 34 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0261-1430
Calvert, Dave (2014) 'Actual Idiocy' and the Sublime Object of Susan Boyle. In: Žižek and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 178-195. ISBN 9781137410900
Calvert, Dave (2014) Heroism as the aesthetic dimension of solidarity. In: TaPRA 2014 Theatre and Performance Research Association, 3rd - 5th September 2014, Royal Holloway, University of London. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2014) 'A person with some sort of learning disability': the aetiological narrative and public construction of Susan Boyle. Disability and Society, 29 (1). pp. 101-114. ISSN 0968-7599
Calvert, Dave (2013) Book review: Drama, Disability and Education by Andy Kempe. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 18 (4). pp. 417-418. ISSN 1356-9783
Calvert, Dave (2013) 'Royal Pierrots' and 'White Coons': the British Pierrot Troupe in the Racial and National Imaginary. New Theatre Quarterly, 29 (2). pp. 107-120. ISSN 0266-464X
Calvert, Dave (2013) From Pedrolino to a Pierrot: The Origin, Ancestry and Ambivalence of the British Pierrot Troupe. Popular Entertainment Studies, 4 (1). pp. 6-23. ISSN 1837-9303
Calvert, David Anthony (2013) The rat pack and the British pierrot: negotiations of national identity, alienation and belonging in the aesthetics and influences of concerted troupes in popular entertainment. Masters thesis, University of Huddersfield.
Calvert, Dave (2012) Carnival of the Mundane: Red Oktober at England's National Tramway Museum. In: Performance Studies International, 27th June - 1st July 2012, Leeds University, Leeds, UK. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2012) The Rat Pack: Legacy and Influence. In: University of Huddersfield Diamond Jubilee Lecture Series, 6th June 2012, University Campus, Barnsley. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2010) Loaded Pistols: the interplay of social intervention and anti-aesthetic tradition in learning disabled performance. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 15 (4). pp. 513-528. ISSN 1356-9783
Calvert, Dave (2009) Like the Special Olympics? The relationship of research to practice in theatre and learning disability. In: TaPRA Conference 2009, 7th - 9th September 2009, Plymouth University. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2009) Heavy Load: The Love Child of Johnny Rotten and Audrey Hepburn. In: Applied Theatre, Aesthetics and Uncertainty, Friday 8th May 2009, Manchester University. (Unpublished)
Calvert, Dave (2009) Re-claiming authority: the past and future of theatre and learning disability. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 14 (1). pp. 75-78. ISSN 1470-112X
Calvert, Dave (2008) Oh We Do Like To Redefine The Seaside. In: Performing Heritage, 3rd - 5th April 2008, University of Manchester. (Unpublished)
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Yesterday, October 4, 2012, four players from the Vancouver Street Soccer League headed to Mexico to represent Canada's men's and women's teams in the 2012 Homeless World Cup. Fabian from Woodwards FC, Rahul from Covenant House, Krista from Portland Phoenix FC, and Natasha from the North Shore Shields will be joined there by players from Kelowna, Comox Valley, Victoria, Toronto, Ottawa, and Halifax.
Vancouver's first street soccer team was created in 2008 and the league was born in 2009. The league has since been flourishing and has grown to encompass ten teams. The Vancouver Street Soccer League provides a number of people living on the streets with the opportunity to get involved in soccer and potentially better their lifestyles.
Some of the players have already had the amazing opportunity to join Team Canada at the previous three Homeless World Cups in Milan, Rio de Janeiro and Paris, where they have won the fair play award two out the last four years.
The above accomplishments, among many others, have also helped attract media coverage to the league, and has helped to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness in Vancouver.
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Whitecaps FC have been a continual supporter of street soccer, and myself and our Vancouver Whitecaps FC men and women have played with and against many of the street soccer players. Through our support I have got to know a number of the homeless players, and we have been able to share our World Cup experiences and chat about how this game of soccer and how it has been so influential in our lives.
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Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984.
"The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million cumulative units at the end of last year," Horace Dediu writes on his Asymco blog. "The iOS platform overtook the OS X platform in under four years and more iOS devices were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the Macs ever sold (122 million)."
In this race, the hare is trouncing the tortoise (source: Horace Dediu, Asymco)
Looked at another way, when 2011 drew to a close, cumulative iOS sales – which began when the original iPhone became available on June 29, 2007 – had reached nearly 260 per cent of total Mac sales.
Of course, an investment in a Mac can range from $599 for an entry-level Mac mini to multiple thousands for a tricked-out Mac Pro, while iOS devices are significantly cheaper. That said, a glance at Apple's earnings for its 2011 fiscal year show how significant iOS devices have become to Apple's bottom line:
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These Are the 23 Very Scary Effects of Sitting Too Much
The price of leading an inactive lifestyle is high. It sounds like a paradox- something people love to do to feel better ends up, in the long run, making them feel a lot worse. Most people spend about half the day sitting. The body is not primed to be in one position for too long.iStock
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Muscles are healthiest when they are being used and challenged on a regular basis. Keep them engaged. Muscles are pliable but when locked in sitting position for the majority of the day, every day, they do get stiff. After years of constantly sitting, the body is used to sitting and not as proficient at running, jumping or even standing.iStock
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Being in a sitting position for too long causes your muscles to pull the nerves around them, which can cause pain. The nerves are pinched and you feel pain in your shoulders and lower back. Do you now understand why people who work desk jobs complain of back pain more often?Shutterstock
An increase of 22 percent - this huge numerical link between every extra 60 minutes people spend sitting and diabetes may come as a shock. A Dutch study indicates that people with type 2 diabetes spent close to half an hour more of their day on a couch or sitting at a computer than those without the illness. After the math was done, it turned out that just an extra hour is enough to increase your chance of developing the condition by 22 percent. Separate studies suggest that being inactive for more than three hours a day decreases people's life expectancy by two years.Shutterstock
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Weakened muscles combined with poor circulation from keeping your legs still for a prolonged period of time lead to a number of leg and hip problems. Your gluteus muscles are some of the most important muscles in your legs. They are responsible for helping you keep balance. When you sit for a longtime, your glutes are at rest and doing nothing but cushioning you. As these muscles lose their tone, you may experience trouble maintaining good balance.Shutterstock
This affects mostly older people. Physical activity as a way to prevent osteoporosis is based on evidence that it can regulate bone maintenance and stimulate bone formation including the accumulation of mineral, in addition to strengthening muscles, improving balance, and thus reducing the overall risk of falls and fractures.Shutterstock
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Sitting for long periods of time increases your risk for colon, endometrial and, possibly, lung cancer by 66 percent, according to a study, which looked at more than 4 million individuals and 68,936 cancer cases. The research found that even in physically active individuals, sitting increased the risk, and the risk worsened with each two hour increase in sitting time.iStock
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When you sit for too long, it becomes difficult to maintain good posture. You will naturally begin to slouch and slump as you reposition yourself to keep comfortable. Before too long, this slouching at the desk will begin to affect your posture when you stand and walk. Poor posture doesn't only look unattractive, but it's painful and messes up the spine.iStock
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Excessive sitting has been linked to increased risk of heart disease. From driving in your car to sitting in your office chair and watching television on the couch, people sit more than they may realize. According to Harvard Health Publications, "some research suggests that it has harmful effects on sugar and fat metabolism, both of which affect a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease, says Dr. I-Min Lee, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School."iStock
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LPL, or lipoprotein lipase, is an enzyme that breaks down fat and uses it as energy. When the enzyme isn't working as it should, that fat is stored. In a study, mice were tested for LPL levels in three states-laying down for most of the day, standing for most of the day and exercising. LDL activity in the laying mice was very low, levels rose more than 10 times when the mice simply stood. The larger point is that people can't combat the effects of sitting with a half hour or hour of exercise alone-standing throughout the day is the answer.iStock
In a study on weight gain and loss, where every aspect of diet and exercise was controlled in a lab, researchers added 1,000 calories to all of the subjects daily diets. None of the people were permitted to exercise, but some people in the study were able to maintain their weight, while others gained weight. The researchers couldn't understand why some were able to avoid gaining weight without exercise. Those who maintained their weight did so by unintentionally moving more throughout the day.iStock
Premature aging
Sitting too much has been linked to various health concerns, some of which include metabolic syndrome and high blood pressure. According to Dr. Mercola, "the more hours you spend sitting in a day, the shorter your lifespan may be. One study found, for instance, that reducing the average time you spend sitting down to less than three hours a day could increase your life expectancy by two years."iStock
Premature death
People who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years fewer than those who didn't watch any television, an Australian study found. Every hour of TV that participants watched after age 25 was associated with a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancy.iStock
Overproductive pancreas
Cells in muscles that have not been moving don't respond well to insulin, according to a study. The result is the pancreas making more and more, which can lead to diabetes. Interrupting sitting time with short bouts of light- or moderate-intensity walking lowers glucose and insulin levels in overweight and obese adults.Shutterstock
Chronic fatigue
It is common knowledge that people who work out on a regular basis have more energy. In fact, cancer patients' symptoms improved when they began exercising more, a study shows. Other research suggests that light exercise reduced feelings of fatigue by as much as 65 percent and boosted energy levels by 20 percent.iStock
Chronic pain
Weight gain combined with poor posture inevitably leads to issues with chronic pain. When you sit for too long, the muscles in your back and neck tense up and before you know it, you'll be suffering from serious aches and pains throughout your shoulders, neck and back.Shutterstock
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Deep vein thrombosis is a health complication in which dangerous blood clots form in the large veins of your legs. Sometimes, pieces of these clots can break away from the clot itself and be pumped into the narrow blood vessels of the lungs. The risk of complications caused by deep vein thrombosis is highest in people who fly often, sit for prolonged periods of time, smoke and are pregnant.iStock
Varicose veins
Sitting or standing for long periods of time can cause blood to pool in the leg veins, increasing the pressure within the veins, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. As a result, the veins can stretch, which may weaken the walls of the veins and damage the valves. Symptoms of varicose veins include skin color changes, sores, a rash, and/or a burning sensation in the legs.iStock
Progress from exercising gone
A few weeks of inactivity can cost you all the progress you've made. The more often you take breaks of inactivity, the faster you regress with each one. Your endurance level and cardio health are the first victims. They start to go out the window in no more than two weeks. Then you're back to your inactivity levels in no time. According to studies that amount of oxygen people can uptake and use dives within a month of not training.Shutterstock
Weight gain
One of the more obvious and faster hitting consequences of sitting too much is that it's really easy to gain weight. This doesn't only affect the way you look and feel, but if you gain enough weight to be classified as obese, you're putting yourself at risk for a number of serious health complications.iStock
Research has linked more sitting and less activity with an increased risk of developing dementia, according to Harvard Medical School.Shutterstock
Slower brain function
Studies have found that interrupting prolonged sitting with light-intensity walking breaks may be an effective fatigue countermeasure acutely. The brain is technically a muscle and needs to be exercised. Good blood flow to muscles, including the brain, makes the body and mind work better.iStock


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Blogs vs. Blackboard for Courses
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- dmv said...
Prof. Dudziak:
From a student's perspective, I have mixed feelings about Blackboard. On the one hand, it's incredibly useful when professors actually use it to distribute course content, though it can also be incredibly annoying when professors inconsistently use it. Honestly, I've had a total of 1 professor who has consistently used it. I find myself checking Blackboard maybe once a week or so, unless a professor says something in class about putting something on it. But with the one who consistently used it, I'd find myself checking it almost daily.
On the other hand, I've never found Blackboard a suitable platform for discussion. Friends of mine have had classes where professors explicitly take into account contributions to discussion on Blackboard as part of their class participation. I sort of like that idea, myself, though I've never had a class where the prof. does it. I don't think profs. should require students to make contributions to an online discussion, but knowing that the professor will take such contributions into account as part of class participation might stimulate the online discussion.
I'm very much in favor of professors opening their class content to the public as much as possible. I have often found myself accessing course content from professors around the country, and from around the world, on topics that I otherwise would not be able to investigate because I just don't have the time or resources to take classes on them. It's truly an invaluable contribution. See, for example, Brad DeLong's making available lecture audio and slides for his economic history class at Berkeley.
As for discussion content on a blog and the anonymity issue, you could simply have the students use aliases, either of their own choice or assigned. (For example, my school e-mail address is a combination of my initials and part of my student ID number. So, if my name is Tom Tootleberry, student ID 1234567, my e-mail would be: firstname.lastname@example.com. In that case, an obvious alias would be: tt4567.)
I don't know what factors you're using to decide what platform to use, but I'd just encourage you (1) to make as much of the content of the course open as you possibly can and (2) to be consistent in your use in whatever platform you choose.
Anyway, I know that these comments weren't precisely responsive, but I wanted to give you a student's perspective on the issue. I think one key mistake professors make is not directly asking students what they like, don't like, find helpful, useful, annoying, etc. about these kinds of pedagogical strategies. I know, that's what course evaluations are for, but a course evaluation is not a free-form back-and-forth. (I have my own grips about evals. As in, I hate them.)
- June 2, 2009 at 10:56:00 AM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Thank you for this very helpful comment -- which reinforces my sense that using Blogger or other blog software might better encourage class discussion than Blackboard (since you don't have to sign in, etc.).
I have a question for you (and other student readers): I agree that having course materials available open-access is, in general a good thing. But my assumption has been that making a blog open-access would deter student discussion on the blog, even students have particular aliases, as you suggest. It would also open the discussion to non-class members. This could have value in itself -- but is not consistent with the goal of creating a community within the class, intensely focused on the problems we're commonly grappling with. Not everything works best when carried on in public, and the classroom (and web 2.0 extensions of it) should be a place where students can take intellectual risks. Doing that on a blog could invite criticism of a post from outsiders, while the strengths and weaknesses of a student's argument can be probed more gently in an academic environment.
I may be wrong, but I have assumed that some students would be comfortable posting for the world to see, but many -- especially when forming new ideas for the first time -- would not, even with an alias.
I would love to hear more from DMV on this, and from other students.
- June 2, 2009 at 11:12:00 AM EDT
- Pete Jones said...
I think you might look into using WordPress instead of blogger as a platform. I recently made the jump and while there are drawbacks (have to be a little more tech savvy, might cost some money), WordPress is the far superior platform. In addition, you can install a WP plugin called ScholarPress which has some of blackboard's functionality built into the blog (shows a schedule, class policies, class bibliography, etc).
One of the nice things about WP is it's customization options- so you could keep certain posts class specific or have others available to the world. Jeremy Boggs has some examples of using a WP blog in his courses.
- June 2, 2009 at 11:32:00 AM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Thanks, Pete. I use Blogger for this blog because it is easy and it's free. My approach is that I don't make money on the blog (I could, but I don't want to turn it into a business), and I don't spend money on the blog (so I only use free versions of blog-related things like sitemeter and neocounter). But you've convinced me to look at WordPress for course use.
- June 2, 2009 at 11:42:00 AM EDT
- Pete Jones said...
The expense part comes in if you need to buy hosting space or a domain name- both necessities that your university should cover without any issues. Your school might even have a WordPress Multi-user account set up for just this sort of purpose (see Mary Washington for a great example).
- June 2, 2009 at 12:50:00 PM EDT
I've been giving some serious thought to migrating all of my course webpages (which I design myself) onto a free blog service, but the one I'm looking at (Ning.com) charges $24.95 a month for an ad-free page.
I'd like more than just a blog feature; I'm also looking for a threaded discussion board, which Ning does offer.
Anybody know of another free blog service with threaded discussion boards?
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The expeditions would use existing rockets and spacecraft now under development to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
Depending on how many customers sign up, the company said it could be ready to fly its first mission by 2020. It did not elaborate on any existing or pending contracts with customers or suppliers.
The first mission would require an investment of $7 billion to $8 billion, said Golden Spike President Alan Stern, NASA's former associate administrator for science. Once established, mission costs would drop to about $1.5 billion to fly two people to the moon for up to two days.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont newspaper defended itself Saturday against accusations of racism over a poster it published in support of a local sports team that read "fry Rice" in type associated with Chinese calligraphy, saying it meant no offense and simply wanted to play on words.
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The editorial acknowledged that the poster's wordplay, punctuated by the chosen font, "evoked a particular ethnic cuisine," but did not constitute racism.
"We don't concede, however, that the use of imagery with any racial, ethnic, or religious inference is to inherently debase that race/ethnicity/religion," the paper said.
"A fair accusation of racism would at least pre-require the reference to actually be demeaning or degrading," the editorial said. "Simply invoking ethnic customs (food, dress, design,) doesn't do that, nor does it suggest any kind of characteristic about the culture, its people, or a history of oppression by the majority."
But the editorial missed the point, said the president of the Asian American Journalists Association, who had criticized the poster after it was published.
"I'm not criticizing the Caledonian Record for rooting for their home team," said Paul Cheung, the association's president. While Cheung does not believe the newspaper's intention was to be racist, it showed "a lapse of judgment and poor taste."
"It evoked a racial undertone and a negative stereotype," said Cheung, who is also interactive and graphics editor for The Associated Press.
St. Johnsbury Academy ended up losing the game to Rice Memorial.
A private school, St. Johnsbury Academy serves local students and also, has boarding students from across the world, including Asia. Academy Headmaster Tom Lovett said Friday that none of the school's Asian students were offended by the poster.
"Overall, our students often see such things as a way to celebrate their culture, not demean it. And in this case, we chose to follow our students' lead and look at the Caledonian's intent, not taking offense where none was intended," Lovett said.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
This Requiem is a real discovery
George Lloyd was born in Cornwall in 1913, and achieved considerable success as an operatic composer in the 1930s when his opera Iernin enjoyed a long run in London, and he had an opera performed at Covent Garden when he was just 28. Lloyd served with the Royal Marines in the Second World War, and his ship was sunk by one of its own torpedos when protecting an Arctic convoy. Lloyd was one of just three survivors, and this dreadful experience caused him to abandon opera, and turn instead to orchestral and choral works.
He wrote twelve symphonies, and three were recorded by Lyrita in the early 1980s with Edward Downes conducting, and were released on superb sounding vinyl LPs which I still treasure. Sadly these recordings haven't yet made it into the rejuvenated Lyrita CD catalogue which I wrote about recently. I also have a 1984 LP of Lloyd's Fourth Piano Concerto played by Kathryn Stott with the composer conducting on the Conifer label.
The Requiem was George Lloyd's last work, and he only completed it two months before he died in 1998. It uses the Latin text, and was written for small chorus and counter tenor with only organ accompaniment as Lloyd (photo below) feared he would be unable to complete an orchestral score. This is one of his few works for counter-tenor, and this voice gives an etheral feeling to the work, while the bold organ writing underlines the spiritual dimension. Despite dating from the end of the 20th century this is not an avant garde work, and today the score's dedication 'Written in memory of Diana, Pricess of Wales' seems incongruous. The Requiem follows the Italian style, and moves between the modal and romantic. It ends optimistically with the Lux Aeterna, but both musically and philosophically it encourages reflection on the past, and that is entirely appropriate for Remembrance Sunday. There is no claim that Lloyd produced a masterpieces to rival Britten's, but with Requiems such as John Rutter's achieving such popularity it is difficult to understand why this fine work by George Lloyd is not better known.
* An excellent recording of George Lloyd's Requiem sung by the Exon Singers conducted by Matthew Owens is available from Albany Records, together with many other recordings of his works. Here is a 30" MP3 file from the Sanctus as a taster.
Now discover another very moving, and neglected, 20th century Requiem by taking An Overgrown Path to Dresden Requiem for eleven young victims.
George Lloyd is BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week starting November 13th 2006. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report broken links, missing images and other errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
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In praise of... George Lloyd – yesterday On An Overgrown Path and today in a Guardian leader
Monday November 13, 2006
The Guardian
"A man of the moment" a classical music magazine called him some 20 years ago; but if George Lloyd's music was commanding more attention in the mid-1980s than it had been for most of his composing life, that reflected less a revival than a previous neglect, which had driven him at one point to take up market gardening. Enthusiasts for the music of this composer, who was born in Cornwall in 1913 and died in 1998, have tended to blame his lack of recognition on the reign, as BBC controller of music, of William Glock, who had firm-to-implacable views on whose music deserved airtime and whose did not. Lloyd, like Edmund Rubbra, Berthold Goldschmidt and Robert Simpson, belonged to the second group. Today's Radio 3, thank goodness, is not given to chauvinism; it does not try to pretend that the pantheon of great composers is heavily staffed by Britons. Yet it is now ready to atone for past neglect of home-grown composers. A Simpson symphony was the chosen subject for the Saturday morning Building a Library feature last month, and this week Lloyd is given the rare accolade by being installed as composer of the week - as well as having three more of his symphonies featured in Afternoon Performance. That makes him at least as much a man of the moment as he ever was during his lifetime, while giving us a rare chance to decide for ourselves whether the indifference shown to him for much of his life was deserved, or, as fans of his rich, romantic style would say, disgraceful.
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- Pliable said...
This link will take you to the Remembrance Sunday podcast from the British Legion website.
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- Pliable said...
An email pointing out an error by me, now corrected:
Oops! He actually wrote 12 symphonies. No. 12 had its British premiere in Worcester Cathedral (1990?) at the Three Choirs Festival (I was there!). It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 'Afternoon Performance' this coming Thursday (21 Nov 2006) 2-4pm.
Graham Eagland
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- George Lloyd Society said...
George Lloyd will be composer of the weeg again for the week beginning 24th June 2013. His Requiem (reviewed above) will be played at a Late Night prom on 3rd September, and his HMS Trindad March will be played at the Last Night of the Proms. see www.georgelloyd.com for more details.
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I've resisted the notion that the next great gaming platform was going to be our mobile devices. The all-touch interface, the constant interruption by notifications, and that pesky moment when you have to decide between the save point and actually answering the phone call just seemed to take away from the gameplay. Nevertheless, increasingly impressive games are coming out for Android and iOS every day. The two in most recent history that really stand out, in my opinion, are Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto III. Both of these games brought to life a facet of gameplay that didn't exist on mobile devices in any recognizable way until these two games hit the market. What makes them stand out? Their ability to be modified for a different in-game experience.
I don't think I will ever forget the first time I really experienced a fully modded game. During a particularly caffeinated run of Unreal Tournament, the flag room in the CTF match we were playing was MR. Burns' office, from The Simpsons. Even more unnerving was that the guy who was guarding the flag had skinned his character to look like Mr. Burns, and made short work of me as I stood in shock at what I was seeing.
Game mods aren't a new thing, and for PC gamers it's something of a hallmark of games that have truly "made it". When you have enough control of your game that you can affect your opponents mental state by skinning your character in bright pink armor and ride a giant Pikachu into combat, you know you've gone too deep. With the current generation of games, there's somewhat less of the embarrassingly weird, but nearly all of the popular FPS games out there have mods of some sort. This exists in a significantly crippled state on consoles, but in many cases it exists nonetheless. In my mind, this will always be one of things that "makes" a gaming platform.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Grand Theft Auto III are the first games to come to a mobile platform that truly offer this level of modification. Minecraft, which is famous for the mods that can be used on the PC version of the game, is growing in popularity daily because of all of the crazy things you can do with it. The most common of Minecraft mods, texture packs, are already popping up on iOS and Android. Meanwhile, Grand Theft Auto III is a bullets to buildings port of the original, and manages to play very well on everything I have tried it on. Because the game is just a straight PC port, many of the original mods that were written for the game work, if you put the modified files in the right places.
Recently, several member of the XDA Developers forum have found ways to enhance graphics, apply some of your favorite mods, and even configure a PS3 Sixaxis controller to play the game with. Because the Android filesystem is a little different from a traditional PC, all you really need to do is find where the folders have been relocated to, and nearly everything that works on the PC will work on your Android device.
While this is a pretty early step compared to the wild world of game mods, the step has been taken. Much like the early days of the homebrew hacks for the Nintendo DS and the Wii, modders are going to mod if they are allowed to. Since Rockstar never had any real concerns about the PC mods, it's not hard to imagine that this behavior will continue with GTA III. With that, it's likely a short walk to game mods being available for download in the Android Market for your favorite games. For all we know, we could be months away from Mr. Burns surprising me for the second time in my life, on my mobile device.


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Marc Jacobs Sings Backup for Donna Summer, Talks Hair Transplant at Louis Vuitton Store Opening
>> Marc Jacobs has taken the stage for many a reason in the past — usually it involves accepting an award — but last night, it was to sing backup to Donna Summer at the opening of Louis Vuitton's new store on Bond Street in London. "It was fun — but I think I'll stick to my day job," he quipped.
Jacobs celebrated with the likes of Stella Tennant, Bernard Arnault, Carine Roitfeld, and Natalia Vodianova, and opened up about his recent hair transplant, which had him avoiding press and cameras at the Costume Institute Gala earlier this month. "I was starting to thin on top. I can't dye it for a while, so this is my natural colour."
He also hinted that the Louis Vuitton logo that he has helped make so ubiquitous almost got squelched way back when he first started at the brand: "When I arrived at Louis Vuitton 12 years ago, and I was figuring out how to create a new tier of Vuitton for a different customer, I thought it would be clever to hide that monogram, which was very stupid of me. That logo is part of what makes the Vuitton so desirable. It allows people to become members of an aspirational club."
Logos are to be expected, but not Louis Vuitton couture — Jacobs says he has no desire to launch such a collection. "Some of what we already do at ready-to-wear is pretty much at couture level, anyway."


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I have seen outlook profiles be come corrupt for various reasons.....usually due to size of the mailbox.
Seeing you mentioned pst files...I am assuming Outlook...not Outlook Express here
What is the server Outlook is connecting to...is it just a POP or an Exchange etc?
Check the filters and views the user has setup...I have had a user filter her mail and all of a sudden mail wasnt "there"....and once I reset the views to default and removed the filters...voila..the mail was there...sounds like this may be the issue.
Outlook 2003 has has many an update to the junk mail filters........make sure you are up to date on the patches.
Really sounds like a view thing to me though
Or you can try creating the users profile on another machine.....see if it works there?
Or....... create a new outlook profile on the machine
From Outlook I export the mailbox to a pst file at the root of C:\ and call it backup.pst
(include all sub folders...this is VERY important)
I then delete the profile and look for the users pst file...usually in the users profile\documents and settings folder......(really depends on the version of outlook and windows) and delete that pst file.... a search for *.pst will usually finds the other pst file....sorry cant remember where it is stored right now...do not delete the backup.pst you just created at C:\
I believe pst files are considered hidden\system...so you may want to adjust your search to include those
I then recreate the profile in outlook and import the backup pst ...unless of course I am connecting to an exchange server...I should not need the backup.pst as the mailbox really resides there..just needs to synchronize....backup.pst is there....just in case..all else fails
A new profile has fixed outlook many times for me.....
Again..what version of outlook...and what server??


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"virtuous cycle" developing, in which retailers placed the money from strong-performing comics not solely into paying down other expenses, but into ordering more of the next big project. With Marvel's "Avengers Vs. X-Men" event launching later in 2012, the question was whether the market could hold its gains from the DC relaunch through the "Dead Quarter," giving shops something to work with as AVX approached.
As reported here on Friday, according to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors, Direct Market orders had their best February in years, with the year-to-date increase mirroring the increase of early 2002, when Wolverine: The Origin fed into Dark Knight Strikes Again, which fed into the Spider-Man movie, the first Free Comic Book Day, and the Transformers nostalgia boomlet. With the estimates for February sales online, we see that the internal numbers also show positive signs.
Last February, while itself a rebound month for the market, had the lowest orders ever for a top-selling title, with Green Lantern #62 selling 71,500 copies to retailers in its initial month. This February, market-topping Justice League #6 had orders approaching 135,400 copies (excluding the Combo Pack) and six titles outsold last year's top-seller.
But perhaps the more important comparisons come by looking at the two-month cycle — the tempo retailer orders are placed on. Most titles would expect to lose significant ground as the winter months are entered; retailers in February 2011 cut their Green Lantern orders more than 6% from the previous December. This February, Justice League's orders dropped by less than 5% from December — and the issue was a Feb. 29 shipping product, so it included only first-day shipments. I would suspect that going down the list we'd find a similar lessening of the usual winter order reductions; retailers ordered nearly 1 million more copies of the Top 300 comics in the month than in February 2011, so that seems likely.
February's total was, of course, aided by the fifth shipping week — it was the first February with five Wednesdays since 1984. Past years show about an 11% increase in Top 300 comics unit orders in weeks with five months; this month's increase in the Top 300 was 18%, so there's something more going on. Whether due solely to the extra week or not, the depth of publisher offerings was much greater this month: we never see a February with just 15 publishers represented in the Top 300. February used to be the month where we'd see the publisher names that usually bubble under. But this month, Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, and IDW combined for 239 entries — and Dynamic Forces (Dynamite) added an additional 25! So there aren't a lot of slots left.
We can further see the depth by looking at the 300th-place title bellwether. Look at the number of copies ordered of the 300th-place title in the last
February 2003 • 1,585
February 2004 • 857
February 2005 • 1,155
February 2006 • 1,561
February 2007 • 1,314
February 2008 • 1,997
February 2009 • 2,604
February 2010 • 2,237
February 2011 • 2,860
February 2012 • 4,185
These are all years in which Diamond reported Final Orders, so we're comparing like against like in all cases. Even with the fifth week, retailers ordered far more copies of the titles in the low 200s than they did during even the years that were overall, like 2005-2007. The fragmentation of sales across multiple titles is an old theme on this site, but the above figures are a pretty good indicator that something fundamental has changed in the Direct Market. (The 300th-place graphic novel, by the way, had unit orders of 337 copies, versus 295 last year.)
It may be that the successful model for a middle-tier publisher is no longer keeping to a small-sized line — the "Rule of Eight" observed by market analyst Marc Patten many years ago, who found a high mortality rate for publishers that extended past eight monthly titles in the post-Image era. IDW (which had its highest market share ever this month), Dynamic Forces, and to an extent Boom have joined Image and Dark Horse on what would appear to be a tier where trade paperbacks are making the economies of scale make sense. Is eight titles is no longer the barrier, but the lower entry point to a Periodic Table-like island of stability? And how many publishers can inhabit that region? It's something worth more research.
Here are the aggregate figures:
Versus 1 year ago this month: +18%
Versus 5 years ago this month: -8%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +17%
Versus 15 years ago this month: -24%
YEAR TO DATE: 11.87 million copies, +24% vs. 2011, -11% vs. 2007, +7% vs. 2002, -30% vs. 1997
February 2012 versus one year ago this month: +19.63%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +17%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +1%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +39%
Versus 15 years ago this month: +11%
YEAR TO DATE: $40.8 million, +22% vs. 2011, -2% vs. 2007, +28% vs. 2002, unchanged vs. 1997
February 2012 versus one year ago this month: +22.26%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +11%
Versus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -11%
Versus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: -53%
YEAR TO DATE: $11.69 million, +20% vs. 2011
February 2012 versus one year ago this month: +15.65%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +15%
Versus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: -1%
Versus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +26%
YEAR TO DATE: $52.5 million, +22% vs. 2011
February 2012 versus one year ago this month: +20.11%
Versus 1 year ago this month: +21%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +13%
YEAR TO DATE: $69.04 million, +25% vs. 2010, +5% vs. 2007
This is the last month that the ten-year comparisons will be limited to the Top 25 trade paperbacks; Diamond moved to reporting the Top 50 in March 2002.
A couple of observations on the aggregates: the Direct Market has now banked $14 million over the first nine weeks of 2012 versus the year before; this will come in handy as the comparatives for the second half of the year will be more challenging, as we get into comparisons with the early DC relaunch months.
Also, it's interesting to see that the dollar value of all the Top 300 comics ordered in 2012 to date is identical with the figure for the first two months of 1997. That was a period with much lower prices, of course, but the larger unit sales then was driven largely by there being many more shops. That's the big mission should our nascent virtuous cycle continue; comics sales improved in the 2000s but the number of shops didn't swell very much in response. Will retailers farther removed from the calamity of the late 1990s be more willing to expand, especially as the general economy improves? That's one of many big questions, but it's a nice one to be able to ask at all.
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Authorities warn Westminster residents of vandals, thieves
Carroll County Sheriff's Office is warning residents in Westminster after more than two dozen vehicles were struck by vandals and thieves early Sunday morning.
Authorities said the Judges Fancy and Greenbrier neighborhoods were affected.
Vandals shattered car windshields, bending antennas, smashing mailboxes and other property, authorities said.
Thieves took nearly $1,500 of portable electronics, change, jewelry and prescription drugs from several unlocked vehicles, caused more than $4000 in damage and were still able to leave the area undetected, authorities said.
Sheriff's deputies and crime scene technicians collected information from victims and processed 27 vandalized vehicles for fingerprint and DNA evidence.
The Sheriff's department is warning residents to roll-up car windows, lock car doors and remove valuables from site when leaving their vehicle unattended.
They are also asking residents to report unfamiliar vehicles and persons roaming neighborhoods and parking lots during the late evening and early morning hours.
Anyone with information about these incidents or those who did not make a report to police are asked to contact the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at 410-386-2900 or the toll-free anonymous TIPS hotline at 888-399-TIPP (8477).