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Like old times: In the black at the Rose
Published October 21, 2004, in issue 0342 of the Hook
Fallout Countdown, Finger Painters, and The Great White Jenkins
at Tokyo Rose
Saturday, October 16
Living on the wrong side of the tracks, I had not been to Tokyo Rose for a show in at least six months. But Saturday night found me braving the smoky den of sin for another round of the old indie-rock. Though faces had changed, the atmosphere was the same: thrift store-outfitted hipsters sipping Japanese beer and waiting for their friend's band to go on.
As always, when you come to see a show at the Rose, opening acts spring up like weeds, though in this case, The Great White Jenkins was refreshingly above average. The four-piece group (acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums) performed a mixture of folk and pop, starting things off strong with their set's catchiest number.
A simple four-riff piece with a repeated chorus of "Shoulda been your servant darling / Shoulda been your slave" had the crowd ecstatic in appreciation. From there things were less grabbing, and the interest of the assembled waned considerably. The group has a bad habit of ending many of their numbers by trailing off rather than coming to a definite conclusion, but they were good for a young band (which unless they've been Botox clients recently, they are).
Next up was the Finger Painters, and now things got a lot more boisterous. For this four-man setup, acoustic guitar switched to electric, and that change– in addition to a serious increase in knob crankage– led the folk at last into the mighty halls of rock.
The group was tight right off the bat, and though it was their first show at the Rose, they didn't seem to need to find their legs. With a rotating cast of lead vocalists including the lead guitarist, the rhythm guitarist, and the drummer (the amazing Steve Snider), no one was sure what we were going to get at the beginning of every song. Highlighting the set were a tune on which both guitarists sang in a quasi-round fashion, and another sung by Snider, a great pop tune. The song's unexpected chord change on its chorus, and double backup vocals by the group's guitarists made my ears perk up like a cat's.
Fallout Countdown was next, another four-man outfit with the standard rock setup, but this is in no way a pop/rock group; they push rock's boundaries into hardcore and punk. A screaming-quick number sung by the group's guitarist led to a quick reshuffling of instruments so that the group's bassist now became the microphone-gripping singer for a song which mostly consisted of him screaming, "I'm the proletariat / You're the proletariat" and doing some nice flailing around the stage.
I think there was also some wood block and tambourine in there somewhere. The group was loud, angry, and utterly uncompromising, and though I could not understand the words in the slightest, politics were reportedly frequently on their minds.
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By now, you've probably heard mutterings about a new Google innovation known as Wave. Not content with cleaning up in the search engine arena, becoming the first name in digital maps and making its Gmail client synonymous with webmail, Google wants you to organise and share your social and business events and conflabs using its tools too.
Google Wave offers a simple, single interface for storing events, meetings, ideas and conversations. Once you've secured an invite, the idea is you share not just blogs, tweets and funny YouTube clips but more business-focused output too. You can use it to brainstorm ideas, to draw up drafts and to do so across as large a group of contributors as your Google Wave ecosystem stretches to.
The 'wave' is a one-size-fits-all term for conversations, documents and events. In common with a wiki, anyone can edit a wave. But what's most innovative about Google's approach is that any changes will be visible to all users in real time.
Google also promises simplified filesharing, with subscribers able to drag-and-drop items such as photos into a wave. The entire wave can then be shared via external websites.
Although Google Wave was offered only as a limited release to public beta testers at the end of September, it promises to greatly simplify the way we communicate online.
The basics
Google Wave - and its associated jargon and lingo - might seem confusing to the outsider. But its essence is simple: it allows you to store and share files and conversations in an easy-to-use interface.
Wave allows multiple users to share and collaborate on documents, using a rich media editor that can display images and videos as well as a range of gadgets and interactive applets. Any communication or 'wave' can be part conversation and part document, with Google providing live transmission of any edits.
Note that Wave is still in beta, and only invitees are able to participate in its testing programme. Visiting wave.google.com and requesting an invite won't guarantee that you'll be able to access the features mentioned here.
Step 1: One reason behind Google Wave's restricted access is that it isn't fully compatible with Internet Explorer. Rather, Google designed Wave with Safari, Firefox and, unsurprisingly, Google Chrome in mind. If you're nevertheless determined to use Wave with Internet Explorer, you'll need to install the Google Chrome Frame plug-in. This replaces Internet Explorer's rendering engine with that of Google Chrome. Ignore this advice and Google Wave won't appear correctly in your browser.
Step 2: When you first open up Wave, the interface is fairly sparse as there are no waves or contacts other than the person who invited you. A list of waves that have been created and sent to others by you will be listed in the central pane; clicking an individual wave brings up a preview in the right pane. A menu in the left pane, meanwhile, displays a Navigation bar. This can be used to help you locate and control all the waves in which you are a participant, as well as a contacts panel.
Step 3: As the number of users able to connect to Wave is restricted during the beta-testing stage, our ability to demonstrate collaboration with others is limited. If any of your contacts have a Wave account, however, this will be displayed in your contacts list.

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Astros getting up-close look at young talent
HOUSTON -- The Astros' clubhouse during this current seven-game homestead varies drastically from how it looked before the club went out on the road two weeks ago.
With three players traded, J.D. Martinez injured against Toronto and veterans Carlos Pena and Ronny Cedeno designated for assignment since July 21, the future has arrived early in Houston.
The Astros have the youngest active roster in the Major Leagues by more than a full year on average. The average age of the current clubhouse is 25.7.
"You see a lot of movement in the Minors, guys moving up and down," said center fielder Brandon Barnes, himself a rookie. "This is a rebuilding process. Guys are going to be traded and not pan out or brought up to see what they can do in the big leagues.
"I'm on board. Whatever they have in store for us, that vision, we all want to be a part of that process. Nine new guys or one new guy, we welcome them all."
Eleven of Houston's 25 players during this series have played in Triple-A Oklahoma City since Memorial Day, marking this summer as a huge influx of talent from the organization's touted Minor League ranks.
Pitching has been the biggest boon of late, with recent callups Brett Oberholtzer, Jarred Cosart and Brad Peacock leading a sudden surge in starting production.
Entering Tuesday's game, Houston starters have posted a 2.68 ERA in their last nine games. Oberholtzer has delivered two shutouts, Peacock was a tough luck loser against Minnesota and Cosart's continued to resemble the frontline arm he was expected to be.
"They've been putting us in a position to win," said manager Bo Porter. "It's good to see those guys come here and build on that success at the Major League level.
"A lot of these guys are growing together, so it's a close-knit group. They're anticipating being here for a long time. You can see the camaraderie on our bench. They're watching the game intently. As a manager, we sit here and think, 'This is the start of something good.'"
Porter said the recent flood of youth has allowed the front office to better examine the Astros' young talent on an accelerated timetable.
"The maturation that's taken place with our ballclub backwards in age, it's actually a good thing to evaluate the number of players we've been able to evaluate," Porter said. "The questions we had as a staff, we're allowing the players to answer those questions. The big leagues don't lie. We're seeing the answers as this season goes."


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Gyorko, Smith may be ready to return
SAN FRANCISCO -- Padres manager Bud Black could have some more weapons at his disposal on Wednesday for the series finale in San Francisco.
Second baseman Jedd Gyorko is expected to return from the paternity list after his wife, Karley, gave birth to twin boys on Monday. Gyorko, who was away Monday and Tuesday, is eligible to miss up to three games, but Black will surely be eager to add him back to the fold, even if he is struggling with the bat.
Meanwhile, outfielder Seth Smith is recovering well from a right groin strain he suffered on Thursday in Washington. Smith was out of the starting lineup for the fifth straight game, but took batting practice again on Tuesday and was available to be used as a substitute.
If all goes well, Smith could be inserted back as the starting left fielder by Wednesday.
"That's not out of the question," Black said before Tuesday's matchup. "All that depends on how he does today in the pregame when he ramps up the intensity of his running out here. I'll have a better idea once this game unfolds, how he feels."


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Charles Tillman shares the Bears cornerback record for most career interceptions with Donnell Woolford, who snatched 32 from 1989-96.
When the Vikings visit the Bears Sunday at Soldier Field, Woolford says he will be rooting for Tillman to break the mark.
"It has been dusty for awhile," Woolford said. "Besides, it gives people a chance to talk about my name a little bit. That's all good, so I want him to break the record."
It turns out Tillman and Woolford have more in common than interceptions. Both of their fathers had long military careers. And both believe in the importance of giving back to the community through charitable foundations and volunteer initiatives.
"I am involved in several non-profits and I have my own charity that supports the Boys and Girls Clubs of America," Woolford said. "I grew up in a strict family; my dad was a military officer and Boys and Girls Clubs kept me off the streets."
Woolford looked forward to being one of the celebrities serving meals to the homeless and unemployed in Chicago on behalf of comedian Tom Dreesen and the Laugh Factory on Thanksgiving Day.
"(Tillman is) doing some tremendous things in the community with his (Cornerstone) foundation," Woolford said. "He is doing some good work on the football field and off. So I am pulling for him and hoping he stays healthy and the Bears go to the Super Bowl."
Former safety Gary Fencik owns the Bears overall interception record with 38, a mark within Tillman's reach. Another great safety, Richie Petitbon, had 37 interceptions for the Bears and 48 overall in his NFL career.
Woolford, the 11th pick of the 1989 NFL draft out of Clemson and an All-Pro in 1993, also had four interceptions with the Steelers in '97, but says his NFL career still doesn't feel complete.
"I am trying to get back into the (NFL), but not to play," he said. "I am trying for coaching or a front-office position. I am circulating my resume. I don't have a Super Bowl … I need a ring. If you can't get one (as a player), you have to get it another way. That would complete my life."
Tillman is renowned for punching the ball out of the hands of a receiver or ball carrier to create fumbles. He has seven forced this season and 34 for his career.
"We were taught that when we were playing under (Mike) Ditka and (Dave) Wannstedt," Woolford, 46, said. "Don't just settle for a tackle, try to strip the ball and get it back for our offense.
"(Tillman) is lengthy, he has long arms. He uses his tools pretty well. He catches them off guard and he pops the ball out. I never have seen anyone do it as well as he does."
Tillman and Woolford also know how it feels to get routed by the 49ers in San Francisco, where the Bears have not won since 1985. The Bears are coming off an embarrassing 32-7 Monday night loss at Candlestick Park.
"When Wannstedt was the coach, we played them in the playoffs," Woolford said of the 44-15 NFC divisional loss on Jan. 7, 1995. "It was loud. … Jerry Rice and those guys put a whupping on us."
Woolford also was on the Bears team that lost 52-14 to the Niners on Monday night, Dec. 23, 1991.
"It's tough," he said. "The altitude is a little different and the fans are wound up. It's a very difficult place to play."
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So I didn't totally hate last night's Glee. But ... if they want to keep me they have to do better. And I'm not sure about the wisdom in throwing in a themed episode so early. Britney Spears Glee is next week. Just when there was hope that we might be seeing some depth to our characters, some tension between them, some steps forward in their progression, it's Hit Me Baby One More Time. Why mess with the flow? Maybe next week will offer a pleasant surprise. Maybe it won't just be a 60 minute music video. But the trailer...well... see below.
Still, there were certain improvements last night over last season. I'm into the two Asians dating, especially since that means more Harry Shum Jr. I was into Sue and Will meangirling the he/she football coach. I'm also totally into Kurt's mini glasses necklace. And the throwdown between Quinn and Santana was pretty great, as the head cheerleader reclamation stories always are, but the ongoing money problem is wearing on my ass, and why are all musical prodigies discovered in the shower?
Of course I'm now wondering if Naya Rivera not only had her tits done but filled in parts of her face and lips too after getting played by Mark Salling. That was awfully distracting. Almost as distracting as the new guy's cartoonish swollen mouth, hilariously acknowledged in the show, sure, but still... I don't know that I'll ever get past this.
As for Lea Michele – still super, super f-cking annoying, which I guess is the point, but I have to say, I prefer her voice and her singing over the new girl and the f-cking extra she was bringing to every note, accessorised by wrist flicks and fist pumps, so very American Idol. No thanks. But I'll give it two more weeks.
Attached – Mark Salling out at Trousdale last night. His face as he's leaning in to hug that lady is killing me.
Photos from Roshan Perera/Splashnewsonline.com


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Demolitions ordered for homes destroyed by Ind. blast
Fatal explosion investigated as criminal homicide
Demolitions have been ordered for more than two dozen homes in a blast-ravaged Indianapolis neighborhood where a house explosion that killed two people is being investigated as a homicide case, officials said Wednesday.
The 29 homes slated for razing amounts to nearly a quarter of the 125 houses in the subdivision where the Nov. 10 explosion destroyed five homes and damaged dozens more, leaving some on the brink of collapse. No arrests have been made in the blast, which investigators believe was intentionally set and caused by natural gas.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said search warrants are being executed and interviews are being conducted, though he declined to say who had been interviewed or what investigators have found. He and other authorities announced Monday that the case was now being treated as a criminal homicide investigation.
"As we learn information and learn the identities of individuals who might or might not have information, we're pursuing every lead along that line," Curry said Wednesday.
Indianapolis' code enforcement department said Wednesday that it had issued demolition orders for 29 heavily damaged homes in Richmond Hill, a subdivision on Indianapolis' south side. Four other homes, including two that were leveled in the blast, are being maintained for now as part of the crime scene.
Owners of 17 of the 29 homes under demolition orders have until Dec. 20 to consult with an engineer to determine if their home can be saved, said Adam Collins, deputy director of the city's code enforcement department. But he added that some of the subdivision's homes are so badly damaged they are in danger of eventual collapse.
"With all of these homes we believe they should come down because they pose a safety risk," he said. "We believe they're not repairable."
The four houses at the crime scene include the home where investigators believe the explosion occurred and the house next door, where the couple killed in the blast – John and Jennifer Longworth – had lived.
The owners of the house believed to be the blast site weren't home at the time of the explosion.
City arson investigators, along with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have concluded that the late-night blast was not an accident. Total damage has been estimated at $4.4 million, and federal authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information in the case.
Investigators have focused on appliances in their search for a cause.
Curry said investigators are continuing to "narrow down the precise mechanics of the explosion." But the prosecutor said he could not comment on what investigators believe may have lead up to or triggered the blast.
"The belief at this time is that it was an intentional act, but other than that, I can't discuss how investigators might or might not think that occurred," Curry said.
Monserrate Shirley and her boyfriend, Mark Leonard, lived in the home where authorities believe the blast occurred – but the couple was at a southern Indiana casino at the time of the blast. Shirley's 12-year-old daughter was staying with a friend, and the family's cat was being boarded, said their attorney Randall Cable.
Cable said Shirley's daughter had told her mother she had smelled an odd odor in the home in the weeks before the explosion, but they had not reported it. Shirley has said that her boyfriend had replaced the home's thermostat and their gas furnace was working.
Cable said Wednesday that the couple has been cooperating with authorities in the probe but is weary of being pursued by reporters asking questions about the explosion.
"They're just tired of being hounded," he said. "They continue to say that they're victims, just like everybody else."


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One brisk Tuesday, I climbed the stairs of the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, following the path of Missouri's most famous slave. Past the towering pillars hung portraits of Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, looking at once stern and refined. A plaque offered details of their famous saga: the 1847 legal battle for freedom that was launched on this site; the 1857 Supreme Court appeal; the verdict denying the Scotts' request and stripping them--and all black Americans--of their rights.
The following Saturday found me nearby at the Black Repertory Theater for a staging of "Seven Guitars," the latest work by August Wilson. A poignant look at a black neighborhood in postwar Pittsburgh, it was written with the fiery pen of a black playwright and performed by an all-star black cast, in one of the country's leading showcases for ethnic drama.During the journey in between--past the corn and tobacco fields sprawled across Missouri, through a town named after a freed slave and another with an antebellum school for blacks--I ventured deep into the roots of African-American culture. In Lexington, the scene of a fierce Civil War clash, bullet-ridden antebellum mansions and abandoned slave cabins marked the spot where a story ended. In Kansas City, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum documented the lives of Satchel Paige and other baseball icons. Just across the state border in Leavenworth, Kan., a bronze horseman memorialized the Buffalo Soldiers, an elite group of African-American cavalrymen deployed in battles between the late 1860s and the 1950s.
Angela da Silva, a cultural historian and fifth-generation Missourian, steered the route in a white Ford van; together we covered more than 400 miles in five days, overnighting in motels and B&Bs. Da Silva's National Black Tourism Network offers tours for individuals and groups that cover much of the same ground we traveled.
Missouri, whose population of 5.5 million is about 12 percent African-American, isn't the first place you'd think to go looking for black culture. But the road from St. Louis to Kansas City offered the chance for me to learn about the heroes and other characters of my grandfather's generation.
In St. Louis' Chestnut Valley, for example, a spurned Frankie Baker in 1899 gunned down Albert "Johnnie" Britt, her 16-year-old lover, inspiring one of the most famous blues songs of the 20th century, "Frankie and Johnnie."
The tiny village of Mexico, Mo., is where a former slave named Tom Bass learned the horse trade and eventually became one of the world's best-known trainers.
In Saline County, Mo., Joseph Penny, another emancipated slave, bought 16 acres from his former master and turned it into the country's first incorporated black town.
Before taking to the road, I visited venues featuring some of St. Louis' best-known African-Americans. After touring the Dred Scott exhibition, I headed to the small apartment where ragtime composer Scott Joplin lived around the turn of the century. Here I saw the small, modestly furnished rooms where he wrote and entertained guests.
The heavy oak door to Pleasant Green, a restored antebellum mansion in the tiny town of Boonville, took us a century and a half into the past. After sherry and homemade desserts with Florence "Winky" Friedrichs, whose family has owned the mansion for five generations, we were offered a tour of the place, which is open to the public by appointment. Built in 1818, the Federal-style manse has 11 rooms, complete with a parlor, den and bedrooms with wood-beamed ceilings.
Out back was a tiny log structure, the last remaining dwelling of five cabins where the slaves once lived. In 1863, the family owned 17 slaves, according to a document Winky showed us. It listed the net value of each--$250 for a 39-year-old named Tom, $150 for 17-year-old William, $0 for a 6-year-old child. In all they were valued at $9,009.
This was "Little Dixie," seven counties stretched across northern Missouri. They got the name because of the heavy ownership of slaves by locals during the 1800s. Before the Civil War, the three major cash crops in the region were hemp, tobacco and slave breeding, according to historical records. In 1860, census reports show, the area slave population ranged from 24 to 52 percent.
Violence against slaves was apparently commonplace. A plaque in the visitors center in Lexington detailed one such case: In 1856, Josephus Hicklin lashed one of his slaves, then beat him with clubs, and rubbed cayenne pepper and tobacco in his eyes until he died.
Such incidents transformed Lexington County into an early battleground between slaveholders and abolitionists. Da Silva explained how antislave activists developed an underground railroad to sneak slaves across the border into anti-slavery Kansas.
The corner of 18th and Vine Streets in Kansas City, the scene of many a Saturday night hoe-down and impromptu street soirees in the 1930s and '40s, is now little more than a scattering of low-rise buildings. In the midst of it all, however, are the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum, both moving reminders of the day when this was a lively stronghold of black culture.
The plaques, videos and memorabilia in the baseball museum take you through one of the most remarkable chapters of American sports history: from the banning of blacks in white-owned teams in the 1920s, through the creation of an all-black league and the rise of all-black teams like the Kansas City Monarchs and players such as Jackie Robinson to the heights of American sports stardom. There's a statue of Rube Foster, the league's burly founder, balls pitched by Satchel Paige and a bat wielded by Jack "Buck" O'Neil. But the highlight is the "Field of Legends," a lifesize re-creation of a ballpark with bronze statues of the league's first 10 players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Upstate New York.
The American Jazz Museum, across the hallway in the same building, is a tribute to the characters who strummed their fingers weary and puffed their lungs dry until jazz became America's classical music. Here are interactive exhibits about Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz giants, as well as recordings of everyone from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
After nourishing myself for three hours with sports and music history, I was hungry for real food. Gates Barbecue, one of the city's oldest black-owned restaurants, was the perfect response. A platter of ribs and chicken, hickory-smoked and drenched in sauce, and my day felt complete.
Back in St. Louis, I went to the Calvary Cemetery, an expanse of green dotted with towering ornate headstones. I stopped at one with a simple cross at the top and these words underneath: "Dred Scott, born about 1799, died September 17, 1858. Freed from slavery by his friend Taylor Blow." The other side noted how Scott's legal battle for freedom had helped precipitate the Civil War.
From the sorrowful scenes of slavery to the sites where sports and music stars made their euphoric rise, I had taken in about as broad a swath of history as any trip could offer. It's a journey every traveler should make.
The National Black Tourism Network, a St. Louis travel agency, conducts four-day tours of black Missouri including accommodations, meals and stops at the Lexington Civil War Site and other locales. Airfare isn't included. The firm also conducts half-day tours of black St. Louis, featuring stops at Dred Scott sites and many others. For details and prices call 314-865-0708 or visit www.tourism-network.net.
The Radisson Hotel and Suites (200 N. 4th St., St. Louis; 800-333-3333; www.radisson.com) is a good base. Although the rooms could use a renovation, the service is good and so's the location, right next to the arch. A weekend package has doubles with kitchenettes including breakfast for two.
At the other end of the state, the Inn at Ophelia's (201 N. Main St., Independence; 816-461-4525) is an excellent bed-and-breakfast with spacious rooms and an assortment of rolls, fruit and juices for breakfast. The location is about a half-hour's drive from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and other worthy sites in Kansas City.
In St. Louis, Gary's Fine Dining (601 N. Grand Blvd.) offers tasty pork chops, K.C. steaks and other local dishes. Footsteps away from the Black Repertory Theater, it's a good pre-show dinner choice.
In Kansas City, Gates Bar-B-Q (1026 State Ave. and other locations) is a must-stop for lunch. A black community institution, it serves succulent ribs and chicken, hickory-smoked in the K.C. tradition and drenched in barbecue sauce.
In Independence, Ophelia's (201 N. Main St.) features a stunning menu of creative salads, chicken and fish dishes as well as the traditional Midwestern staples of steak and potatoes. The creme brulee and other desserts are worth saving space for.
Those who want to visit Missouri's African-American sites on their own should include a stop at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (1616 E. 18th St., Kansas City; 888-221-NLBM; www.nlbm.com). The American Jazz Museum and Blue Room, which features jazz concerts several nights a week, are just next door. Admission to both museums is $8.
St. Louis Convention and Visitors Bureau, 800-916-0092; www.explorestlouis.com.
Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City, 800-767-7700; www.visitkc.com.
Black history in Missouri
One brisk Tuesday, I climbed the stairs of the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, following the path of Missouri's most famous slave. Past the towering pillars hung portraits of Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, looking at once stern and refined. A plaque offered details of their famous saga: the 1847 legal battle for freedom that was launched on this site; the 1857 Supreme Court appeal; the verdict denying the Scotts' request and stripping them--and all black Americans--of their rights.


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Google Glasses Are Coming – Here's What We Know
We told you about the upcoming Google Glasses a few weeks ago, and now we have a few more details to share.
The Android-powered specs, which were inspired by the Oakley Thump sunglasses above, are slated for release later this year. So, what do they do?
If you have them on while you're looking at a landmark, the glasses will project augmented reality information (like, say, historical or background information gleaned from Google) in your field of vision. For instance, if you're at a party or a work function, facial-recognition technology could even remind you who someone is and where you initially met them. Fancy!
Basically the glasses would deliver all of Google's features — email, search, maps, etc. — directly to your eyeballs. The specs would work on the Android system, with a third-party providing 3g or 4G Internet speeds. Need to check your email and don't want to go to all the trouble of looking at your cumbersome smart phone? Simply tilt your head to scroll through emails or texts. (The screen is controlled via a mouse that responds to head movements. Yes, this is a real thing that is happening.)
Other features include using Google Latitude to determine and share your locations, search Google Image to, say, find out the artist of a painting at a museum or use Google Shopping to price check something at a store. Pretty much anything you've done on your phone, you can now do via voice commands and have them beamed directly into your eye sockets. Yep, you'll basically be the evil Terminator from 'T2.'
While the futuristic technology might be neat, many are already complaining about the bulky, unattractive design and general safety of the glasses. (Google is quick to say the glasses are "not being designed to be worn constantly.") And, of course, they won't come cheap. One expert estimates the price to be between $250-$600. Turns out finding John Connor doesn't come cheap.


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Staying in New South Wales for this post, I'll be looking at Nicholas Delaney's road building for Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
There are no records to show exactly when Nicholas began working on the roads of the new colony. He had been an overseer on goverment projects since 1808 and was in charge of a group of convict labourers in 1812. In January 1813 Macquarie signed his free pardon.
It was a good time to be in the building trade. The new Governor made it his business to tidy up the higgledy-piggledy settlement he had found when he arrived in 1810. Sydney would be set out in rational grid lines, the Domain enclosed and roads driven west into the daunting Blue Mountains. Nicholas was to work on all these ventures.
He and his men were busy with a project dear to the Governor – building Mrs Macquarie's Drive, a long road which encircled Sydney's Government Domain land. Named for, and planned by, his wife, Elizabeth, the road encloses what are now the Botanic Gardens and takes in her favourite viewpoint, still known as Mrs Macquarie's Chair.
By luck or careful planning, Nicholas and his co-workers finished the entire drive on Elizabeth's birthday.
Auspicious day
As Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary:
Thursday 13. June 1816
This day at 1. P.M. Nicholas Delaney the Overseer of the Working Gang employed for some time past in the Government Domain reported to me that Mrs Macquarie's New Road – (measuring three miles and 377 yards -) round the inside of the Government [domain] – together with all the necessary Bridges on the same – were completely finished agreeably to the Plan laid down originally for constructing it by Mrs Macquarie.
As a reward for their exertion in having completed "Mrs Macquarie's Road", on this particular and auspicious Day, I have given Delaney and his gang of Ten Men, five gallons of Spirits among them – as Donation from Government from the King's store.
The Governor was obviously delighted at this extra birthday present for Elizabeth. Nicholas and the other men would have been extremely pleased with their reward, too. Five gallons of rum – that's 40 pints, or nearly 23 litres. Enough for a good party, and plenty left over for use as currency.
There will be more about Nicholas's road building in the next blog post.
Macquarie on TV
On Australia Day (26th January) 2011 BBC TV showed The Father of Australia, a drama-documentary about Macquarie. Unfortunately it's no longer available to view, but there are some clips on the Beeb's site and here's a link to a clip provided by the programme-makers, Caledonia TV.


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You can find a slice of the region's tastes in San Gabriel, located in the far eastern corridor of Los Angeles. The restaurant is aptly called Tianjin Bistro and they have been cooking up the regional specialties for Angelenos for five years. Owner Jinling Tian used to own restaurants in Tianjin and her store is the quintessential San Gabriel Valley hole-in-the-wall. There's only a couple of tables, plastic bags are provided so you can chuck the fish bones, and the affordable dishes are served on family-style platters.
"Our main focus is to bring Tianjin and Beijing specialties to the Los Angeles area," Tian said. "With that in mind, most of our customers are Tianjin natives."
The English menu is admittedly plagued with spelling errors and descriptions that sound far from appetizing (what in the world is a "Tan Jing Shredded"?). But we went in, ordered the top menu items, and have compiled this introduction to some of their best sellers.
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Taking a cue from what they're learning in class, some Johns Hopkins public health students are spearheading a climate-conscious drive to get the university to divest itself of fossil fuel holdings.
Just before taking off for the holiday break, leaders of the Refuel Our Future campaign delivered to JHU President Ronald J. Daniels' office a petition with more than 800 signatures on it calling on the university to rid its $2.7 billion endowment of fossil energy stocks in an effort to ease the predicted environmental and health impacts of climate change.
"A core group of people in our school of public health realized a couple months ago in our environmental courses really what a huge conundrum we are in with the environment and climate change," said Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke, a physician who's studying for a master's in public health on the East Baltimore campus. "For whatever reason, we just felt really empowered to try to do something."
The Hopkins students latched onto the divestment idea from author and climate activist Bill McKibben, explained Katherine Jochim, a nurse also studying at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jochim said she and a small group of Hopkins students went to Washington to hear McKibben speak as he barnstormed across the country in the fall to warn the public of dire consequences if society keeps pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
McKibben, scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont, has sparked a national movement of students pressing their schools to sell off fossil fuel stocks. Divestment petition drives have been launched on more than 190 campuses nationwide, according to Daniel Kessler, media campaigner for 350.org, the climate action group McKibben heads.
"It's spreading like wildfire," Kessler said.
So far, only two small New England schools have vowed to redirect their endowment dollars, Hampshire College in Massachusetts and Unity College in Maine. But recently, in response to an overwhelming student referendum vote calling for divestment at Harvard University, its president, Drew Faust, announced the elite school would be creating a "social-choice fund" for donors who don't want their gifts invested in fossil fuel stocks. Harvard officials, however, have said it's unlikely the university would drop its fossil energy holdings.
(The University of Maryland, College Park is the only other campus in the state with a petition on 350.org's website. It's not clear how active that drive is, though, as there were only a handful of names listed there.)
Opponents of divestment argue that endowments need to maximize their earnings to support the ever-growing educational needs of universties. Some also question the effectiveness of such investment boycotts, arguing they have little or no influence on the companies being shunned.
But advocates see divestment as a step in the right direction.
"What we're looking for is a paradigm shift in the way we use fossil fuels," said Jochim. "Just one school divesting won't matter to them, but if we can change the way people see fossil fuels," she added, that may alter how they vote. "Policy change follows public opinion," she concluded.
The divestment campaign has particular appeal to the Hopkins students, who take their public health mission seriously. Noting the Bloomberg School's motto is "Protecting health. Saving Lives. Millions at a time," the petition calls it "contradictory and self-defeating" for JHU to be investing in fossil-fuel companies that it argues "threaten the future of its students and life on earth as we know it."
The initial reaction from the university administration has been noncommittal.
"We always appreciate hearing the point of view of concerned students," emailed Dennis O'Shea, JHU's executive director for media relations. "Like them, we are very interested in reducing the university's carbon footprint."
O'Shea went on to note that since JHU adopted a 2009 climate task force report, it has cut its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent from 2008 levels, through more than 150 energy conservation projects completed so far. The report called for the university to reduce emissions 51 percent by 2025.
While praising the university's efforts to shrink its carbon footprint, the student petition drive organizers say it's not enough.
"While it is good to be more sustainable," said Jochim, "it's also important to nip this in the bud."
Less than 1 percent of JHU's "direct holdings" in its endowment are in fossil-related stocks, according to O'Shea. As a private university, however, Hopkins' investments are not public, and O'Shea would not identify any of the companies in which JHU is a stockholder, ergo a partial owner.
There's precedent for Hopkins putting public health concerns over maximizing investment returns. In 1991, the university's board of trustees voted to divest from companies that make tobacco products. The trustees declared then that "the holding of tobaco stocks is incompatible with the university's mission to disseminate information on the treatment and prevention of disease and illness."
Van Dyke and Jochim say they hope to keep the campaign going when classes resume early next year. They've already enlisted some undergraduate students on the Homewood campus to circulate the petition there.
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And Van Dyke said they also hope to reach out to one of JHU's more influential alumni, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for whom the public health school is named because of the generous gifts he's given from the wealth he's accumulated through his financial news empire. Even before Superstorm Sandy devastated the southern tip of his city this fall, Bloomberg was outspoken on the need for the nation to come to grips with the threat of climate change.


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Recently, a Reddit user had the unfortunate honor of being on the receiving end of a scorned young lady who was lashing out at her ex. The problem was, her ex had apparently changed his number.
Over the course of an hour, "Kara" sent over 40 messages to a married schoolteacher who was a new mother herself and definitely did have time to council anyone through a breakup. It's probably a good thing he changed his number because she doesn't seem to be handling the breakup very well.
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- February 3rd – One of The Biggest Days in Sports – Whether you plan on watching the big game or just the commercials. This Sunday is a great time to enjoy the company of friends and family and great food!
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I just got a Galaxy Nexus and all is good apart from that my Sync Browser doesn't work. When I run logcat against it it gives me the error of :
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I've seen some pages online which describe this issue and suggest fixing by removing all your bookmarks and starting again, but I'd rather not do this. *see edit below
Does anyone know how I can fix this without removing all my existing browser setup?
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Cailiawen smelled the sea breeze as she saw the light appear and picked up her bottle and glass and stepped back and watched. When it seemed the wizardry was done, she stepped back to the bar and smiled at the man making such a grand entrance. She gave him a nod and lifted her wine glass as he introduced himself, saying,
"I am Cailiawen of Rhuadur. I am honoured to make your acquaintance. That was quite an entrance you made!"
Having pondered leaving, Cailiawen now reconsidered, especially if the prospect of some music was possible. She waited until after the greetings of an old friend was done before saying to Lady Heather,
"Yes, I think I will stay for one night, and I will need my horse tended as well."
Cailiawen weighed her coin pouch, knowing that tomorrow she would have to venture north.


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BERLIN >> Germany took the dramatic step Thursday of asking the top U.S. intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country, following two suspected cases of American spying and the yearlong spat over eavesdropping by the National Security Agency.
The move reflects growing impatience in Germany at what is perceived as U.S. nonchalance about being caught spying on a close ally.
"The representative of the U.S. intelligence services at the United States embassy has been asked to leave Germany," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
"The request occurred against the backdrop of the ongoing investigation by federal prosecutors as well as the questions that were posed months ago about the activities of U.S. intelligence agencies in Germany," he added. "The government takes the matter very seriously."
Seibert said Germany continues to seek "close and trusting" cooperation with its Western partners, "especially the United States."
The U.S. government declined to comment directly on the decision. But White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the security and intelligence relationship with Germany was very important to the United States.
"It keeps Germans and Americans safe. It is essential that cooperation continue in all areas and we will continue to be in touch with the German government in appropriate channels," she said.
Shortly before the decision was announced, Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that Germany and the United States had "very different approaches" to the role of intelligence agencies.
She stressed the need for greater trust between allies, a position she has repeatedly voiced since reports last year that the NSA eavesdropped on her cellphone.
In separate cases over the past 10 days, one man has been arrested and an investigation against another has been launched on suspicion that they worked for foreign intelligence. German media have reported that the men are suspected of passing secrets to the U.S.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the scope of the cases and who was involved are not yet clear, but talks are taking place with the United States at various levels.
"If the situation remains what we know now, the information reaped by this suspected espionage is laughable," de Maiziere said in a statement. "However, the political damage is already disproportionate and serious."


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Assalamu Aleikum wa rahmatu lilahi wa barakatuh
In chapter 42 (surah Ash Shura) on verses 30 and 34, I have noticed an important grammar as well as tajweed point that I will need to understand, inshallah.
In verse 30 it is written: "...wa ya' fuu 'an kathiir". The verb "'afaa" here is written and is read with a 2 vowel count despite the fact that the subject is Allah (who is singular and not plural).
Then in verse 34 it is written: "...wa y'afu 'an kathir". The verb "'afaa " is written and pronounced with a one vowel count with the subject being Allah (who is singular).
My question is why in verse 30 "y'afuu" is written with a 2 vowel count when the subject (Allah) is singular? Usually if the subject is plural then the verb should be written and pronounced with a 2 vowel count but verse 30 as a different grammar perspective. What are the reasons for this?
Jazakumullahi khairan
Wa salamu aleikum wa rahmatulilahi wa barakat
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
It is good to see you studying the grammar and meaning of the Qur'an, as it is very necessary for the student of the Qur'an to be able to read, understand, and explain the Qur'an, including grammatical occurrences. May Allah increase you in knowledge of the Qur'an and the Arabic language. Ameen.
You are correct in assuming that it is a grammatical change. The root of the word, as you stated is , and please note that the last letter is an alif. When verbs have as part of the root one of the three "weak" letters, or , the alif, ' or , these letters often change with the tense or with grammatical changes in the sentence structure, and the root letter that is one of often changes into another weak letter, or is dropped other times when a grammatical event happens that effects the verb.
In the first of the two aaayat mentioned in the question
(Ash-Shura 30):
There is a present tense singular male form of the verb , which is ; the alif of the past tense singular root has changed into a , and thus we have a two vowel count natural medd.
For the second aayah in the question (aayah 34), we need to look at the grammar starting at the aayah preceding it: (Ash-Shura 33-34)
The first part of aayah 33, has a conditional verb, , meaning, "If He wills..". This conditional verb (notice the sukoon on the end of the verb) then affects the following verbs, which explain the condition, including the verb in question. "If He wills…" and then each of the verbs then are what is called in grammar , as what can happen if He wills is explained in aayah 32 and 33. In a single male present tense verb with a strong ending (not one of the three medd letters), the last letter of the verb part of the word will end with a sukoon when it is . In the case of a verb in the single form ending with one of the three weak letters and, the weak letter is dropped in writing and in pronunciation, and thus we have in this case. The verb then has remained in the singular male form, but the which is part of the basic make up of the verb has been dropped due to the grammatical .
Insha' Allah this makes things clearer to you about the two different spellings of the same verb, due to grammar.
Wa iyyakum. Wa asslaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


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In possibly the worst case of its kind in history, an entire nation has had a Jubilee inflicted upon it over an extended period while the rest of the world stood by. Yet again, the ability of the United Nations to prevent such atrocities has been called into question.
In the face of a population of sixty million being subjected to such a degrading experience, the UN is thought to have sent a mere platoon of 25 unarmed observers. After a daring amphibious landing at Southend, the peacekeepers were overwhelmed by the feared white-van militia and had their blue berets forcibly replaced by Union Jack bowler hats before being humiliatingly included in public scenes of jubilation under threat of a 'pool party'.
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The grandstands are empty and only a few crew members brave the blaring mid-summer sun and humidity to watch as the VLC (Very Light Car) turns one lap after another at Michigan International Speedway.
Finally, its tank drained, the car coasts to a stop, its driver emerging with a smile, and for good reason. The curious looking little vehicle has just leaped another hurdle, coming ever closer to a prize worth $5 million.
It's down to the wire for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize, or PIAXP, a competition announced in April 2008 as a way to spur the development of clean, high-mileage vehicles. Funded to the tune of $10 million — which will eventually be divided among three separate categories — the event seems unexpectedly well-timed considering the way the BP Gulf oil spill has raised anew questions about America's dependence on foreign oil.
"What we're trying to do here is set the future, set the next level of efficiency for the automobile," said Steve Wesoloski, one of the senior technical advisors on PIAXP.
On Tuesday, the foundation announced the results of an on-track competition, leaving nine vehicles from seven teams in the running. In the mainstream class, the Edison2 team's two VLC entries passed muster. In the alternative class it was Switzerland-based X-Tracer's two E-Tracer battery electric vehicles. And in the alternative class, side-by-side, these vehicles remained: Aptera's Aptera 2e; Li-ion Motors' Wave II; Raceabout Association's Raceabout; the TW4XP out of Germany; and ZAP's Alias. All of these cars run on an electric battery.
The X-Prize challenge drew an unexpectedly strong response; 115 teams entered 136 separate vehicles. They covered a wide range, from the relatively conventional to the truly exotic. Some entrants decided to bet on the time-tested internal combustion engine, focusing their efforts on other ways to improve efficiency.
That included Edison2, a team created by European car dealer Oliver Kuttner, who brought together an assortment of motorsports and defense specialists. His two identical entries into the $5 million Mainstream category are powered by ethanol-fueled Yamaha motorcycle engines. The real breakthroughs are in the lightweight and aerodynamic carbon fiber bodies and components. Each Very Light Car weighs in at just 750 pounds, despite having tight seating for four.
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As the X-Prize nears the finish line, with only a few steps remaining before the winners are announced in Washington in September, the two VLCs are the only entrants left in the mainstream category.
"It's theirs to win — or lose," declared Eric Cahill, one of the senior competition organizers.
Cahill admits there have been some surprises in the two years since the PIAXP was first announced. For one thing, he notes, hybrid technology hasn't delivered the knock-out many advocates had expected. Whether mated to a gas, diesel or ethanol powertrain, the touts early on thought hybrids would be the technology to beat. But, says Cahill, it's looking more like hybrids are "a bridge technology," until something better comes along.
In the two alternative vehicle categories — one for side-by-side two-seaters, the other for tandems — electric propulsion has been a dominant, though not an overwhelming force. The challenge, says Wesoloski, has been finding a way to squeeze in enough batteries to meet the X-Prize mandates.
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That last obstacle alone tripped up many of the original X-Prize entrants.
For ZAP, the trials and tribulations have been worth it. Alex Campbell, one of the Santa Rosa, Calif.,-based electric vehicle maker's founders, said that win or lose, he's betting his company will have a better chance of tagging along as bigger makers, like General Motors and Toyota, start pushing into the electric vehicle market.
"We've been on the outside looking in," said Campbell, adding that during several recent shakedown events at the speedway about 80 miles west of Detroit he's been able to make contact with conventional automotive suppliers who might be able to help him improve the way ZAP produces its battery cars.
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The PIAXP hasn't been without controversy, and there's a good shot one of the oddest and most unlikely entrants could take the $2.5 million tandem prize. The Swiss-made X Tracer wouldn't qualify as an automobile by most definitions. Even its developers concede it is little more than a motorcycle with a completely enclosed, egg-shaped body. But it just narrowly meets the requirements, says Wesoloski.
Will the Progressive Insurance Auto X-Prize live up to the grand vision of its sponsors?
"We're not only hoping to accelerate the pace of change, but also serve as a broker of information to the consumer," said Cahill.
When it was first announced, during the 2008 New York Auto Show, organizers likened the event to the Orteig Prize, which spurred Charles Lindbergh to make his trans-Atlantic solo flight, and the Ansara X-Prize which, in 2004, led to the first private manned space flight.
"When we first started we were getting criticized for making it seem too easy," Cahill said.
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