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My third post is about Hitchin Museum, the second of the two run by North Hertfordshire District Council. When the council was established in 1974, it took over museums from the former Letchworth Urban District and Hitchin Urban District Councils. Rather than duplicate the coverage in both places, it was decided that Letchworth Museum would concentrate on Natural History and Archaeology, while Hitchin's permanent displays would deal with Social History and Costume (to which were subsequently added militaria, in the form of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry collection, and a Victorian pharmacy from the old Perks and Llewllyn's shop in Hitchin, together with the collection of the Hertfordshire Pharmaceutical Trust).
A few years ago, I decided to add some archaeological material to the social history gallery that deals largely with the history of Hitchin. To that end, I put on display some Lower Palaeolithic hand axes, Neolithic tools, a Bronze Age cremation urn and a group of Late Iron Age and Romano-British pots from cremation burials. This created a case dealing with the period before the town began to develop. A second case already contained some medieval material (most notably an attractive encaustic floor tile from St Mary's parish church and a ridge tile decorated with a three-dimensional horseman from the former Brotherhood guildhall on Bancroft, dating from 1475); to this, I added a late sixth-century globular jar from Gosmore and a skull from one of the sixth-century burials excavated on Queen Street in 2001. This, strangely, is the period when Hitchin seems to have developed as a community.
Adding these last items to an existing display raised all sorts of questions for me. Why were the tile and horseman considered social history objects rather than archaeological? There are other contemporary items (such as some attractive fifteenth-century wooden ceiling bosses from Hitchin or a ninth-century silver linked pin) that have made their way into the archaeological collections (and are consequently currently on display in Letchworth Museum). Why were they not seen as items that illustrate the social history of the town? After all, the linked pin is contemporary with Æthelgifu, a wealthy local woman, whose still extant will records gifts to the church in Hitchin, which she refers to as "my Minster".
I comes down, in the end, to specialisms. In archaeology, we are beset by the problem of period specialisation. We have people who deal with Roman pottery, with Bronze Age metalwork, with post-medieval tile (well, perhaps not so many of the latter), whose professional lives rarely bring them into contact with each other. Such specialisms are a necessary evil – we need experts to deal with different classes of material – but they lead to a compartmentalisation that can make the labels we apply to the past appear more clear-cut than they really are. Nobody woke up in 2200 BCE and decided that they were no longer in the Neolithic and that therefore everything had to change. Nevertheless, we retain these labels because they are useful: Neolithic societies were different from those of the Bronze Age, but not in the sense that they changed overnight from one to the other.
It is the same in museums. We have specialisms within museums. The Keeper of Fine Art may be responsible for the fine post-medieval ceramics (such as collections of Royal Doulton), while the Keeper of Social History may be responsible for the local earthenwares. Unless, of course, these items were found during excavations, in which case they will most likely be the responsibility of the Keeper of Archaeology. This highlights the artificial nature of these divisions. Is Social History just Archaeology with documents, or is Archaeology just Social History with objects? Either way, museums tend to use objects to illustrate both Social History and Archaeology because that is the nature of museums: they are repositories for objects (which may include documents, but that is very much a secondary function).
So, where does archaeology fit into a museum like Hitchin Museum? Insofar as the history of the town extends back to a period before any records survive, we can only deal with its social history through archaeological data sets. In the majority of places, the earliest centuries of a community's existence lack all documentation and can only be reconstructed using the surviving material culture and other archaeological evidence. By separating this off from "Social History", though, we create an impression that there are fixed dividing lines in the past and, more worryingly, that the true "history" of a place only begins when we have surviving records. I get the impression that archaeologists still have a long way to go before we convince historians, let alone the general public, that this is not the case.


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Bumblebees use complex problem solving skills to minimise the energy they use when flying to collect food, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.
For the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), as with many other animals, the simplest approach to finding more nectar would be to fly to the nearest neighbouring flower, particularly considering their tiny brain size. But a team from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences has found that this isn't the case.
The research team arranged six artificial flowers in a flight arena so that the bees would have to follow an unnecessarily long route when flying between nearest neighbour flowers to collect nectar. They watched the bees as they carried out 80 foraging bouts, and recorded which flowers they visited and in which order.
Writing in the journal Biology Letters, Dr Mathieu Lihoreau and colleagues report how, over 640 flower visits, the bees significantly reduced their flight distances as they learned the position of each flower within the array. Surprisingly, the bees almost never followed a nearest-neighbour strategy (in which the bee would fly to the nearest unvisited flower until all flowers are visited). Instead they prioritised following the shortest possible route by learning and memorising individual flower locations.
The team's findings suggest that bees are able to solve complex routing problems by learning, without needing a sophisticated cognitive representation of space. Dr Lihoreau explained: "Despite having tiny brains, bees effectively used gradual optimisation (comparing several different routes), to solve this famously complex routing problem which still baffles mathematicians 80 years after it was first posed."
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As we wait for one ex-coach to possibly face off against his old team, we've got one waiting for us in this evening's second game. Roy Williams used to coach for Kansas before returning to his alma mater, North Carolina. In case you weren't sure, here's a little taste.
∙Bill Self is good, but this is all about Roy. [Sporting News]
∙Roy Williams, a retrospective [News Observer]
∙ Roy Williams' picture now hangs above a Kansas barbershop toilet [ESPN]
∙Roy Williams remembers another game against Kansas [ACC Now]
∙Roy Williams has affection for Kansas [Wichita Eagle]
∙ Roy Williams, fond of Kansas [Tulsa World]
∙ Kansas still special to Roy Williams [AP]
∙ Kansas still special to Roy Williams [Denver Post]
∙ Kansas game still special to UNC's Roy Williams [Charlotte Observer]
Sadly for Roy, the feeling is not mutual.
∙Kansas fans have mixed feelings [KC Metro]
∙Roy left Kansas fans wounded [CJ Times]


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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
There are so many things to love about this place, which opened a few months ago in a former architectural firm's space, starting with the warm, homey decor and pleasant, friendly service. Then you check out the menu and see simple comfort food with the volume turned up to just the right level to get your attention. Like pancakes with lemon and ricotta, and a fried egg sandwich with artisan applewood smoked bacon and aoili. Even their toasted English muffin drizzled with honey and house made peanut butter sounds special.
I'm normally not a lamb person, but the roasted lamb sandwich was tender and garlicky, and their strawberry rhubarb cobbler made a rhubarb fan out of me. And you must, must, must try the potatoes (recently voted #69 on SFoodie's list of best things to eat in San Francisco) which are hot and crispy on the outside - soft and billowy on the inside. (See photo #7 above for how they start off, my guess is that they are deep fried to a delicious perfection right after this.)
One thing not to love? Well, it's tiny. Which means long waits, and cozy (bordering on cramped) tables parked right next to each other. Reservations are not accepted so my advice would be to go early, like really early - especially on a weekend.
On my last visit, I sat at the counter and watched the two cooks and owner Maxine Siu dart back and forth across the teeny tiny kitchen like one seamless, perfectly oiled machine. I'd give this place 4 and a half sandwiches, 2 thumbs up and a standing ovation, if I could.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Seafood Paella
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Which made me wonder about newly-opened Kasumi, who only serves ramen during lunch. I'm not sure if it's a Japanese-custom thing, or a Kasumi-thing, but I do suspect the staff would be richer if they got a nickel every time someone tries ordering non-lunch ramen. Which includes both me & Addiecakes'. In fact, we watched the party next to us get up and leave when they discovered that ramen wasn't on the dinner menu.
They should have stayed. Because the izakaya-style food served in the evenings is fun (who doesn't enjoy eating food on skewers), nicely presented, and delicious. Highlights include bacon-wrapped enoki mushrooms (and who doesn't enjoy bacon), fresh and nicely-seasoned salmon/tuna poke, and a very interesting and delicious broth-poured-over-rice dish called ochazuke.
Luckily, our first visit to Kasumi was during the daytime, and we tried and liked the ramen (shoyu for me, and spicy-miso for her). The soup was tasty (if not a little lacking in depth and flavor as some other ramen spots we've tried) and the noodles had a nice, chewy bite. The accompanying gyoza and chicken karaage were fine, too - though I'd probably try other appetizers on my next visit.
Kasumi is run by the same folks who own Shabu House in the Richmond (one of Addiecakes' favorites) and the service is great. In fact, it was a very sweet and knowledgeable server who kindly informed us that the bamboo vases on each table were receptacles for the neatly storing used yakitori sticks, instead of littering the table, as we had been doing. It was a Homer (D'oh!) moment for sure. Well, now we know!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Chocolate Guinness Mousse Cake
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Also fun, if not a little schtick-y was Max Brenner's at Caesar's Palace. Everything, from the bright dictionary-of-a-menu (with names like Illegal Chocolate Pancakes and After Party Belgian Waffles) to fans artificially wafting in chocolate scents to our server named Hollywood (he swore that was his real name) seemed over-the-top. But appropriate. This is Vegas, after all. Green light: My favorite thing was the dark hot chocolate, served in an adorable vessel named the Hug Mug. Also tasty were the cinnamon apple white chocolate truffle cream French toast and the strawberry-topped waffles.
We also tried Top Chef Master Hubert Keller's Burger Bar in the Mandalay Bay and sampled a variety of burgers from the menu - from classic to fancy to mini (a trio sliders which included natural beef, Angus beef, and buffalo). I can't say it was the best burger any of us ever had, but paired with onion rings, sweet potato fries and a Kahlua shake, it was a fine, hearty meal.
Special Mention: I forgot my camera that day, but the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity 3 at Caesar's was also a winner. I can't speak for anything else (the sandwich, salad and tacos we also ordered were just okay) but the FHC won't let you down!
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Easy Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
All Season
But news in the Chinese food community apparently travels fast. And on a recent Sunday, the normally quiet parking lot of the Diamond Heights Safeway was bustling. And atypically full.
After 30+ years in this location, Yeh Wah closed its doors last summer and the word on the street was that because rents became too high. The neighborhood waited with baited breath to see who would take that space. (In a moment of wishful thinking, MFM even wrote a letter to Ike's Place suggesting he move there after a dispute with his landlord). Eventually, All Season (a Chinese restaurant with one location in the financial district) put up signs that they were moving in. But people were still skeptical.
Somehow, it's working. It's probably a combination of the free, easy parking, roomy-and-pleasant (by Chinese tea house standards) atmosphere, and actually good-tasting, authentic food. There were crowds of people lined up by 10:30am for dim sum on a weekend, and I was happy to see a lot of my favorites – like steamed turnip cakes, sticky rice with chicken, and shrimp dumplings being carted around. They even had some more traditional dishes like chicken feet and congee. And everything was tasty.
But here's the rub - it's not exactly cheap. In Chinatown, or other Chinatown-like areas like the Sunset or the Richmond, you can find cha siu baos for .50 or .75 cents, certainly less than the $1 each they charge here. And a plate of chow mein or fried rice will set you back $12. I guess you can't have everything. But for tasty and authentic food, the ease of parking, and the luxury of being able to carry a conversation with the people you are dining with, it's well worth it. Plus, I think it's a kick just to hear the twang of all those Chinese dialects in a place you'd wouldn't even expect it.


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Several major state-chartered banks and mortgage servicers have agreed to offer relief for home mortgage borrowers in Sandy-affected areas, including no foreclosures and late fees for 90 days, Governor Andrew announced today.
In the state, some of those banks include Apple Savings Bank, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg, Emigrant Savings Bank, M&T Bank, New York Community Bank, Ridgewood Savings Bank, Hanover Community Bank and others, and the state registered mortgage servicers Citi Mortgage, Homeward Residential, Ocwen Loan Servicing and Nationstar.
"Thousands of New Yorkers lost everything, while others are struggling with no electricity and limited ability to travel or communicate. As a result, some people may be late in payments on mortgages or incur other bank fees and penalties. I'm proud to say that major New York State chartered banks and registered mortgage servicers have agreed to waive fees and penalties so borrowers, who are already facing the difficulties and expenses of recovering, won't have this additional cost. I call on any state chartered banks and mortgage servicers that have not yet provided relief programs to borrowers to follow suit," said Cuomo.


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Cardinals to keep focusing on short-term vision
Club aims to build on stellar first half to take first division title since 2009
ST. LOUIS -- Throughout the first half of the Cardinals' season, manager Mike Matheny has been deliberate in preaching long-term goals amid short-term vision.
This was a team constructed by general manager John Mozeliak to compete for a World Series championship, a 12th for the franchise, a would-be first under Matheny's leadership. The objective was clearly defined before the season ever started.
Yet, you won't find Matheny talking much about October these days. He doesn't dwell on the team's first-half record, preferring instead to break down the season by series. The philosophy may make for repetitive and bland sound bites, but Matheny believes in the payoff: a team focused simply on winning a series will find itself where it wants to be come October.
With the All-Star break serving as a convenient time to assess the Cardinals' success so far, there's little fault to find. A team aiming to win series has taken 18, split seven and lost only six. The result? A Major League-best winning percentage of .613 and a place atop a National League Central Division that houses three teams seriously sniffing postseason inclusion.
"I'm real proud about how these guys play the game every day," Matheny said. "They're relentless. They're relentless in their at-bats. They're relentless in the little things, and I think that's something that can set this team apart, is how close we pay attention to getting runners over, to getting guys in, to getting the bunt down, to getting healthy leads and taking the extra base.
"Those little things, to me, the talent gap's so small at the Major League level, regardless of what teams you want to compare … the teams that do the little things right, I think are the ones that are going to be in it at the end. So far, guys have taken a lot of pride in making those happen."
If the Cardinals are to claim their first division title since 2009, they will have to continue to ride their rookies, hope for continued good health and get a boost from its starting staff. The club, too, will have to beat up on its toughest division competition.
First-half awards
|MVP: Yadier Molina
An argument could be made to give this distinction to Matt Carpenter or Allen Craig, but Molina has been the stabilizer for the pitching staff as well as the offense's toughest out.
|Cy Young: Adam Wainwright
Back to pre-surgery form, Wainwright, one of the league's two 12-game winners, has been the definition of team ace.
|Rookie: Shelby Miller
Miller parlayed a rotation spot into a nine-win first half and sits as one of the league's top rookie performers this year.
|Top reliever: Edward Mujica
With the bullpen in disarray, Mujica slid into the closer role and has been nearly perfect in save opportunities since.
Thirty-five percent of the Cardinals' remaining games will be played against the Pirates (14 games) and Reds (10). The most critical stretch is to come in late August and early September, when the Cardinals play 13 straight against the two clubs. Those will offer opportunities for division separation.
"We have some good teams here," catcher Yadier Molina said. "The Pirates are playing well. Cincinnati is playing well. But we have to concentrate on us. We can't look at other teams. We have to concentrate on what we can do every day to win the game."
The keys to the Cardinals closing strong are the same ones that have the team where it is heading into the break. The rotation, while dominant in April and May, has been exposed at times since. Shelby Miller, a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year honors, won nine games, but questions about workload concerns are expected to persist.
That makes it even more critical that Lance Lynn and Jake Westbrook emerge as stabilizing presences. Along with ace Adam Wainwright, those two could help lessen concerns about how the fifth spot in the rotation will be filled the rest of the way.
"Obviously, Waino is doing his thing and continuing with how he started the season," Westbrook said. "For the rest of us, it's a matter of getting back to being more consistent and making pitches in big spots to get out of jams and hold them down."
Chris Carpenter, who began his rehab stint on Monday, remains a wild card in all of the Cardinals' rotation plans.
The bullpen, rebuilt internally since Spring Training, calmed after a shaky April. The closer's role has been handled by Edward Mujica, and Trevor Rosenthal has been just as stingy as his setup man. But Rosenthal is one of five rookie relievers currently in the bullpen, which could make it susceptible during a stretch run.
Players to watch in second half
|Chris Carpenter
As Carpenter begins a Minor League rehab assignment, the Cardinals start to evaluate how soon and in what role he'll best contribute during the second half.
|Shelby Miller
The Cardinals will be watching his workload, and Miller needs to make some adjustments to improve efficiency and start-to-start consistency of command.
|Yadier Molina
There's arguably no more important a player to this team, which is why Molina's aching right knee will continue to be closely monitored.
Whether the club wants to add a veteran to assist the youngsters is among the questions the Cardinals face with the approaching non-waiver Trade Deadline. If not, they'll stick with the pieces that have posted a 3.09 ERA and held opponents to a .236 average since Mujica became the closer.
The Cardinals have used a Major League most 11 rookie pitchers this season and have accrued 20 wins from that group.
"We have confidence in the bullpen, we can pitch anybody in [any] situation, lefty on lefty or righty on righty," said Joe Kelly, who has vacillated between the rotation and the bullpen. "They all work to give Mujica the ball at the end."
Then there is the offense, which, barring injury, is arguably the deepest in baseball. The Cardinals' lineup features four All-Stars -- Carlos Beltran, Allen Craig, Molina and Matt Carpenter. Molina leads the NL in batting average (.342), while Craig (.333) and Carpenter (.321) sit second and sixth, respectively.
As a team, the Cardinals rank first in team average (.276), runs scored (462), on-base percentage (.337) and OPS (.753). With runners in scoring position, the Cardinals are hitting at a .337 mark. Craig (.489) and Beltran (.431) lead the NL in average with runners in scoring position.
Seemingly the offense's lone vulnerability would be health. Both Matt Holliday (hamstring pull) and Molina (right knee inflammation) limped into the break, and losing either would be a significant blow. Molina's 4-for-6, four-RBI day to close the first half quelled some of the concerns regarding his status.
With a road-heavy schedule during the first half, the Cardinals will play 38 of their final 69 games at home. The team will travel westward only once, that being to Colorado in September. One more Interleague series (vs. Seattle, Sept. 13-15) remains on the docket.
And then there's this: The Cardinals had the NL's best record at the All-Star break six previous times over the last half century. In five of those instances, St. Louis capped the season with a World Series appearance.
"We're here, all pulling for each other," Beltran said. "We're all in the same boat, pulling the same way to one destination and that's being able to play in October. We have a great combination of players … veterans, guys who've been here seven, eight years and rookie guys who are just coming up and doing a real good job for us. It's just a great team of good people."


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10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand On Social Media
Marketers are suckers for a catch phrase, from "join the conversation" to "think like a publisher." Now, thanks largely to Facebook Timeline for brand pages, the new marketing slogan has quickly become, "humanize the brand."
Humanizing a brand simply means trying to interact with each customer on a personal level. But for a company to implement that style, there needs to be a shift in how it responds to customers, particularly via social media. Here are 10 ways to get started.
1. Think Like a Social Network
I recently asked Alfredo Tan, Senior Director of Facebook Canada, if the company distinguishes between business and consumer brand pages. "We don't draw a distinction between your mom and a bar of soap," he says. Social media is egalitarian. If the world's largest social network believes companies and people are on equal footing, maybe you should, too.
2. Start With Staff
In Smart Business, Social Business, author Michael Brito writes, "while many organizations are trying desperately to humanize their brand, they are failing to understand that they need to humanize their business first." In other words, your employees are the most authentic expression of your brand. Start with them.
Take Maya Grinberg, a social media manager with social commerce platform Wildfire Interactive. Grinberg features in-office traditions, such as cheeky "spirit days" when staff plays dress-up, and heads to the company's social channels as a way to generate conversation with fans about their own corporate cultures. She says posts about Wildfire's inner workings are consistently among the company's most popular updates.
3. Keep the Suits in Check
Not in all cases, but certainly in many, it's a good idea to keep executives off of company social media accounts. It's just that, often, the executive team is simply too far removed from the daily customer experience to understand how to best interact with them. That's not something any company wants floating around online.
4. Create Access
Maybe you can't invite everyone into the boardroom, but you can give them access to other parts of your business. Few social strategists understand their audience better than Liz Philips of golf giant TaylorMade. "We are, first and foremost, golfers," Philips says. The company expresses this identity by sponsoring a TaylorMade PGA tour van that travels to weekly PGA events with a correspondent who live tweets to followers.
5. Treat Customers as Partners
Some brands treat their customers as the face of the company. Levi's, for example, has created an entire series of videos featuring customers in their products. They've also developed a line that meets the needs of a key customer group: urban bike riders. Levi's has moved beyond conversing with customers on social networks to co-creating content, even products, with them.
6. Reach Out To Key Individuals
While searching for a new SUV, small business owner, Marc Girolimetti, received a surprising phone call from Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Company. Mulally had organized a special test drive of the company's new Edge Crossover for Girolimetti, at the urging of social strategist Scott Monty. Not only did Girolimetti go on to buy the vehicle, but thanks to his highly connected network, his positive experience spread quickly online.
7. Own Your Mistakes
Want to prove your brand is human? Admit when the company makes a mistake. During a panel on brand journalism at South by Southwest, Twitter's editorial director, Karen Wickre, said making such an admission should be 'on message' for every company.
8. Put Your Fans to Work
Remember that loyal fans are often willing to do some of the heavy lifting for your brand. Cisco Systems created a sticky community on Facebook called the Cisco Networking Academy, where it gives its passionate and knowledgeable fans moderator privileges.
9. Be Open to Debate
People periodically argue. Likewise, a brand should be willing to engage in public debate. When a competitor attempted to recruit Eloqua's entire sales team on LinkedIn, we were unsure of what to make of the situation. Was it a clever use of social media? We didn't know, so we took the debate public by asking our blog readers what they thought. The post's transparency, a hallmark of a humanizing a brand, resulted in a groundswell of public support.
10. Be Present
Creating a social media presence is essentially an invitation for dialogue. Brands that foster the culture and processes required to engage in widespread conversations can create vibrant customer communities. Those that don't might be better off with no social presence at all. The reason: to be on social media but not present on social media is a broken promise.


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It's just not fair.
A little over 6 months ago, I set out on a perilous and virtually thankless
mission ("the names have been changed to protect the innocent"). My mission,
as I chose to accept it, was to obtain the most sophisticated and technologically
advanced computer components my money could buy – said money totalling $1500.
I thought I was fairly successful, too. With these new components of technological
wizardry, I built Imhotep, my God Box, a killer 700MHz AMD Athlon based 28Gig
HD monster! She's a beauty. Aside from not being able to use my USB ports, I
have been pretty happy with Imhotep.
That is, until now.
The soundboard I used for Imhotep was the Aureal Vortex 2 chip-based
board known by very few as the Xitel Platinum Storm. The Platinum
Storm is a really good board. It has 4 channels so you can hook up 2 front
and 2 back speakers, digital audio input, and is compatible with EAX 1.0, Microsoft's
DirectSound 3D and A3D 1.0.
Again, a good board. But after checking out Guillemot's new Maxi Sound Muse
soundcard, I started to question my initial decision.
Once again, we have a simple and painless installation. The Muse fits
snuggly into any available PCI slot on the motherboard. When prompted to install
the drivers, just pop in the supplied CD, point the installation process to
the D drive (or whatever letter corresponds with your CD Rom) and you're set.
This is a great deal more than I can say for my Xitel Platinum Storm.
The drivers that came with this $100 card were incompatible with my system,
resulting in crashes and many foiled gaming experiences. Confound that sinister
blue screen! Thwarted again! Finally, I ditched those dumpy drivers and installed
the Aureal drivers which work much better with Vortex 2 chipsets. But
I digress.
The software bundle for the Muse is robust, to say the least. It
comes with Media Station, a multi-functional graphic interface with mixing panel,
.WAV file player/recorder, MIDI player and audio CD player. Gamers and music
enthusiasts alike will also be able to create, play and listen to MP3s and WAV
files with Sonic Foundry's loop-based multitrack music creation tool. This tool
allows you to easily create and edit your own music files and comes with 25
free music loops. If you are at all into music editing or creating, for any
reason from email sounds to full-length musical performances, then you may want
to check this one out.
Yamaha's Xgstudio, a digital interface for playing MIDI files, Kool Karaoke
Lite, a fun, full-featured karaoke player, and Earjam IMP 1.0 round out this
already nicely contoured software bundle. The Earjam IMP (Internet Music Player)
is supposedly the world's first universal player/burner. This handy little program
plays all music formats and boasts compatibility with all popular hardware devices.
The Muse supports Central Laboratories HRTF 3D positional audio functions.
This makes a monumental difference in gaming – and music in general, for that
matter. The support also allows for compatibility with several gaming standards
like Microsoft DirectSound 3D, EAX 1.0 and A3D 1.0. Nothing new here, though.
I would have been more surprised had it not supported these standards.
The Muse runs off of the new generation CMI-8738 audio processor
that, regrettably, completely kicks the crap out of my highly-esteemed Vortex
2 processing chipset. Techno jargon and boasted features aside, the Muse
sounds incredible. The sound is clear and the bass is sharp and deep.
The only problem I can find is that there is no digital-in for your digital
stereo or other digital music device. People looking for a high-end card probably
won't view the Muse as the perfect buy.
But they will find it the most affordable. I paid over $100 for that damn Xitel
thingy. It came with stereo headphones that were inoperable after a week. Furthermore,
I had to go through a month of blue screen hell before I realized I needed to
jettisoned the faulty drivers. With the Muse, you get so much more bang
for your buck.
Frankly, when it comes to value for quality, most other sound cards pale in
comparison to the smile manufacturing $29 Guilletmot Maxi Sound Muse.
Yes, that's right, $29. That's less than most console games. So sell
a game, check under those couch cushions, or just shake a small child upside-down
because thirty bucks for this board is an absolute steal.


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Former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush spoke to Parade for the magazine's cover story this past weekend, and Doug Menuez went to Kennebunkport, Maine, to photograph them. Doug previously photographed the Bushes for the magazine in 2009, but this time Bush 41, now 88 years old, was in declining health. Here, Doug describes the experience—which lasted an intense but collegial 15 minutes—and includes some of his favorite outtakes from the session.
There are celebrity shoots, and then there are celebrity shoots. Most involve tense publicists and tense famous people not thrilled to be photographed, as well as very tense crews full of stylists, assistants, etc., not to mention the very tense photographer upon whose shoulders the final result will rest. When the celebrity in question is the former President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, and his wife, Barbara Bush, for the cover of Parade magazine with a circulation of approximately 1 billion, one might expect a double dose of all of the above.
But with Bush 41, it was nothing but relaxing ocean breezes, Kennebunkport casual hospitality, and zero tense anything. The Bushes are very much a down-to-earth semi-retired power couple—what you see is literally what you get.
This is not to say I wasn't terrified anyway and working at a fever pitch despite the calm setting. And I had been warned by the incredibly kind Bush family publicist, Jean Becker, that President Bush would be in a wheelchair and had great difficulty walking. And I had only one assistant—just like on a news assignment—and no stylists, and we did have a very tight time frame to work within given the state of President Bush's health, which is stable but certainly declining with his advancing age and a form of Parkinson's that limits his ability to walk.
Everyone at Parade—photo director Miriam White-Lorentzen, editor-in-chief Maggie Murphy, creative director Richard Baker, and on-set writer and reporter Mark K. Updegrove—was extremely supportive and counting on me to not only nail a candid portrait for the cover but also somehow make something happen that might yield inside images, as well. I expected I would have 10 minutes. In the end, I had that and maybe 5 minutes more after the interview.
I shot what I could during the interview over Mark's shoulder, and when my time came I got the cover shot quickly, with the Bushes on the couch where they had been sitting. Listening to them talk, I was taken back to a different political era, when despite the passions of the left and right, laws were passed, compromises were made. A lifelong Democrat, I leave my politics at the door when I'm shooting journalism. But I love history and the people who make it, so I bring an open mind and a level of respect even to those I might disagree with.
Knowing that movement would be a huge challenge, Jean encouraged me to simply ask President Bush for whatever I needed. And from my past cover shoot with him, I knew that he loved getting outdoors and to the sea in particular. I thought somehow getting him over to the window would make sense and would give me some opportunity to make a more lasting image of an American President toward the end of his life. I decided to take the risk and made my pitch.
While I was suggesting that he and Barbara come over to the French doors overlooking the sea, I quickly moved a wingback chair and lamp. I came close to the President and looked him in the eye and said I'd like to shoot him looking out at the sea that he loves so much. "Getting all arts and crafty, aren't you, Doug?" said the President. "Exactly," I admitted. "But I think it's worth a try." "Great. Let's do it," he said and began to rise.
Immediately, it was obvious he couldn't really walk at all. He made a half step and held position while Barbara had one elbow and I grabbed the other. At one point, I let Jean and others help him move while I moved the chair to the best angle for him to slide in. It was excruciating to watch this man struggle step by step. At one point, someone loudly said, "Mr. President, you don't have to do this!" He smiled, turned, and forcefully said, "I'm gonna make it!" and "We're gonna do this picture!"
He was determined and slowly but surely made it into the chair, which I rotated back to the sea. There, I made a quick shot of him looking out the windows and then jumped outside and closed the door behind me. My quick-thinking assistant, Josh Dick, who specializes in mind-reading photographers, was ready to help as he realized the reflections would be cool on the glass but would also obscure their faces due to the lighting conditions. He held up his jacket to flag their faces, and I gestured for them to come close together.
I made a couple of portraits that worked, both of them fairly radiant and looking in tremendous health despite all their earlier talk about being old and their imminent demise. I called a wrap. Then in an instant, Barbara leaned over and kissed the President on the head. I barely fired one shot. This is my favorite image from the shoot and the picture I will take away as an authentic reflection of their relationship but also kind of interesting as it was shot through the glass. It's intimate and real, and I'm proud of it. A bit of directing on my part, but even with something conceptual there happen to be real moments that are gifts, and I was lucky enough to press the shutter just in time. Within the context of a celebrity shoot where there is a lot of pressure, I think these little moments are the greatest gifts. This is what I always strive to bring back—something more than expected.
I did push beyond what I might normally do given his high station and health, but nothing great ever happens without risk. I also sensed in him a desire to make it happen and the grit to get to that window. —Doug Menuez
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CHICAGO — An enzyme present in extremely low quantities in normal brains has been found to be greatly increased in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease researcher M.-Marsel Mesulam, M.D., and colleagues at Northwestern University Medical School found that the enzyme, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), increases at the stage when beta-amyloid plaques in the brain become compact and insoluble. These insoluble beta-amyloid plaques are one of two early pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease.
A report of the group's findings appears in the December issue of the Annals of Neurology. Their results suggest that BChE may help transform benign amyloid protein deposits in the brain into the compact plaques associated with the nerve degeneration and dementia of Alzheimer's disease.
Mesulam is the Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, a professor of neurology and the director of the behavioral and cognitive neurology and Alzheimer's disease program at Northwestern.
In this study, he and his colleagues tested brain tissue specimens from two persons with Alzheimer's disease and specimens from four non-demented persons for the presence of BChE and its confirming markers. Their results showed that only the compact and neuritic forms of amyloid plaques had BChE. (It is this neuritic stage that is most closely associated with Alzheimer's disease-related dementia.) Many amyloid deposits that consisted almost entirely of diffuse plaques were found in tissue from non-demented subjects. BChE was therefore a better marker than amyloid for differentiating normal aging from Alzheimer's disease.
Mesulam and other investigators have shown that deposits of diffuse (and harmless) beta-amyloid may exist in the brain for many years before leading to Alzheimer's dementia.
The factors that contribute to the transformation of the beta-amyloid from a relatively inert to a disease-causing state remain unknown and may involve interactions with additional plaque constituents, he said.
Among these constituents are a number of "companion" molecules, e.g., apolipoprotein E, complement factors, acetylcholinesterase, BChE and others. Mesulam and colleagues believe that some of these companion molecules could conceivably influence the transformation of the plaque from a benign to a malignant form.
"One potential pattern for such a companion molecule would be to have a preferential association with the mature rather than early stages of amyloid plaques," Mesulam said.
Of all the companion molecules associated with beta-amyloid, only BChE is present at the later but not the initial stages of plaque maturation.
"Our evidence suggest that BChE probably is inserted into the amyloid plaque at an advanced stage of maturation, at a time when the plaque is becoming associated with pathogenic properties," Mesulam said.
Other investigators on this study were Angela L. Guillozet and John F. Smiley, research assistant professor of neurology, Northwestern University Medical School, and D.C. Mash, department of neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.
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While we wait for a feature-length movie about Assassin's Creed, the kids at Corridor Digital have put together this five-minute clip for Assassin's Creed III that is way better than it has any right to be.
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For about twenty years, Latin America's most funk-fueled party, Los Amigos Invisibles has been quietly killing it. I mean not quite quiet, after all they did win a Grammy for their 2009 release Commercial. An album that had hints of P-funk(y) Rose Royce-meets-merengue in a discotheque in Caracas circa 2014; and was assuredly dope. Best part, they've got a new one.
New for 2013, Repeat After Me which just dropped March 25th on Nacional Records continues where the band left off. Their first single, "La Que Me Gusta" is pretty nice, reminds me of an 80's pop song I can't quite place…
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High School Football: CdM's Carter named Pacific Coast League MVP, Moore Defensive MVP
Corona del Mar High senior quarterback Cayman Carter took home the Pacific Coast League MVP award and junior middle linebacker Alex Moore shared the Defensive MVP honor after the two helped the Sea Kings win their second straight CIF Southern Section Southern Division football championship.
Carter and Moore are two of 10 CdM players receiving first-team all-league laurels for leading the Sea Kings (12-2, 5-0 in league) to their first undefeated league title in the program's history.
The Sea Kings' other first-team selections were senior Griff Amies, who earned the league Kicker of the Year award, junior center Giovanni Gentosi, senior wide receiver Troy Reese, senior defensive end Tim Reinhardt, senior cornerback Ryan Griffin, senior running back Kai Wilson, senior defensive end Greg Williford and senior left guard Michael Martinez.
CdM's second-team picks were junior right tackle Brett Olson, sophomore running back Cole Martin, sophomore receiver Bo St. Geme, sophomore linebacker Hoyt Crance and senior punter Luke Napolitano.
Carter was a dual threat for CdM, which ended the season with a 35-10 win against Garden Grove in the Southern Division finale at Angel Stadium.
Carter, in his first year as a starter, threw for 2,210 yards and 17 touchdowns, with only six interceptions. He completed 167 of 290 passes, setting a CdM single-season completion record.
Carter rushed 197 times for 1,073 yards and 15 touchdowns.
In CdM's last 10 games, Carter threw 15 touchdowns and only one interception. During the stretch, Carter led the Sea Kings to 10 straight victories, the longest winning streak during a season in CdM's history.
Moore finished with 143 tackles, averaging 10.2 tackles per game, one sack, two fumbles caused, one fumble recovery and one interception. Moore's interception came on the first play from scrimmage in the Southern Division title game. He returned it 30 yards for a touchdown.
Moore, who shared the Defensive MVP with Northwood's Joe Dunleavy, anchored a CdM defensive unit that shut out its first three playoff opponents. The only other time the program had opened the playoffs with three straight shutouts was in 1989, when CdM completed a back-to-back section title run.
Amies finished the season with 22 field goals, tying him for the state's single-season record. He attempted 30 field goals.
Amies converted a 43-yard field goal-attempt in the Southern Division title game. The field goal tied the state record set by Chris Sailer of Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks in 1994.
Reese caught 55 passes for 803 yards and nine touchdowns.
Reinhardt had 47 tackles, nine sacks and one forced fumble.
Griffin made 58 tackles, intercepted four passes and recovered one fumble.
Wilson rushed 126 times for 1,058 yards and nine touchdowns.
Williford had 33 tackles, two sacks, one fumble recovery, one forced fumble and one interception.
— From staff reports
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"SHOGUN" AND "THE RUN OF HIS LIFE: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON" (working title) ADDED TO ROSTER OF FOX TENTPOLE EVENT SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT
Adding to its prestigious long-form event series development slate, Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) announced today that it has inked development deals for two high-profile drama projects from FX Productions: SHOGUN, from Academy Award-nominated producer Michael De Luca ("The Social Network," "Moneyball") and Nigel Williams ("Elizabeth I") and THE RUN OF HIS LIFE: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON (working title), from Nina Jacobson ("The Hunger Games" franchise, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchise) and Brad Simpson ("World War Z," "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchise) and based on legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin's best-selling book of the same name.
"These are both epic stories - one fiction, one fact - that have captivated millions of people worldwide. They're riveting and emotional, with unique historic backdrops that lend themselves to the high-quality, dramatic event series we're looking to make," said Shana C. Waterman, Senior Vice President, Event Series & Multi-Platform Programming, Fox Broadcasting Company. "Since we announced our first two projects, WAYWARD PINES and BLOOD BROTHERS, we've received an overwhelmingly positive response from the creative community, and we're ecstatic to have feature talent like Michael DeLuca, Nigel Williams, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson working to bring these stories to life at FOX."
SHOGUN, based on the best-selling novel by James Clavell, opens a window into the brutal world of a rarely seen feudal Japan. Set in the 17th Century, the story is told from the perspective of British hero John Blackthorne, a sailor who rises from outsider to samurai, while being used as a pawn in Japanese leader Toranaga's struggle to reach the top of the ruling chain, or Shogun. A classic for the ages, SHOGUN is both a cross-cultural exploration of Blackthorne's journey away from the European way of life, and a star-crossed love story, as he falls for the magnificent Lady Mariko, the married confidant to Toranaga.
There are few truly unifying events in American life. When something happens that makes the entire country stop and take notice, we remember it forever. Everybody remembers where they were when O.J. Simpson, riding in a white Bronco, led the police on a low-speed chase all over Los Angeles. This marked the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the birth of reality television. Written by Golden Globe Award winners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski ("The People vs. Larry Flint," "Man on the Moon," "Ed Wood"), THE RUN OF HIS LIFE: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON (wt) will take viewers behind the scenes of "The Trial of The Century," driven by the nonstop plot of a courtroom thriller and presenting the story of the trial as it has never been told.
FOX will order its first event series later this season, with plans to debut in 2014. Previously announced long-form event series in development include WAYWARD PINES and BLOOD BROTHERS. Based on the best-selling novel, "Pines," by Blake Crouch and brought to life by suspense-driven filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable"), WAYWARD PINES is an intense, mind-bending thriller evocative of the classic cult hit "Twin Peaks." BLOOD BROTHERS, from Bruce C. McKenna ("Band of Brothers," "The Pacific"), Gary Randall ("The Glades," "Saving Grace") and Timothy Scott Bogart ("Majors & Minors," "Touched"), is the true story of the West Point Class of 1861. As our bitterly divided country tore itself apart over the issue of slavery, best friends, bonded in the intense crucible of the Academy, found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that quickly became the bloodiest in U.S. history.
Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) is a unit of News Corporation. FOX finished the 2011-2012 season at No. 1 in the key adult demographic for the eighth consecutive year - a feat that has never been achieved in broadcast history - while continuing to dominate all network competition in the more targeted Adults 18-34 and Teen demographics. FOX airs 15 hours of primetime programming a week as well as late-night entertainment programming, major sports and Sunday morning news.


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- 1492 - Alexander VI is elected Pope. He becomes known for making lewd and improper suggestions to the cardinals.
- 1858 - The First ascent of the Eiger. After this ascent, an Eiger Counter keeps track.
- 1966 - John Lennon holds a press conference apologizing for stating that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." He clarifies, "I meant to say we were more popular than Mohammed."
- 1969 - The first men land on the moon. While collecting moon rocks, Neil Armstrong "accidentally" rubs up against Buzz Aldrin.
- 1972 - The last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam. Says an Army spokesman, "Thank goodness we've learned our lesson! No more pointless guerilla wars without an exit strategy for us!"
- 1993 - President Bill Clinton takes interest in the new White House secretary.
- 2004 - Bill O'Reilly makes several drunken phone calls. He later wakes up to discover that he is the now the Democratic Representative for New Hampshire, and president of the international Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
- 2006 - Harry Whittington declines to play naked Twister with Dick Cheney. Instead, the two embark on a quail hunt where Dick shoots Harry, claiming it was an accident.


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Penn State Laureate Kenneth Womack's essay series, "50 Years of Beatles," continues with a look at Penn State Altoona's upcoming International Beatles Celebration.
On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived to unprecedented fanfare at New York City's newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport. With "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Meet the Beatles!" ruling the top slots in the Billboard hit singles and albums charts, Beatlemania had come to America. And as cultural life in the 50 intervening years has demonstrated, it had come to stay.
Years later, during the production of the Beatles' "Anthology" television miniseries in the early 1990s, Paul McCartney described the United States as the "greatest showbiz town ever," astutely referring to the nation's commercial power as the world's most lucrative entertainment marketplace. Indeed, on Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles had captured the hearts and minds of Americans for the first time during their legendary performance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The band mates played five numbers that evening on the popular variety show — including "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" — before a television audience of some 73 million viewers. It was a watershed moment, by any measure, in popular musical and cultural history.
While Americans will be treated to a host of retrospectives during the coming week, truly understanding the Beatles' resounding impact upon world culture is a far more complicated matter altogether. In many ways, we are still trying to understand the nature of the band's achievement and the remarkable artistic heights that they accomplished through their enduring body of work.
At Penn State Altoona, conference attendees at the upcoming international Beatles celebration will be doing their level best to provide expert analysis and introspection about the Fab Four at the event, which will be held Feb. 6 to 9. In addition to art exhibits, book exhibitions and paper presentations, visitors will be treated to a host of top-flight speakers and performers, including Mark Lewisohn, who is, quite arguably, the world's leading authority on the Beatles. Among his many contributions to Beatles scholarship is his discovery of such facts as the precise date when John Lennon first met Paul McCartney. Volume 1 of Lewisohn's much anticipated three-volume biography of the band was published in October 2013 and has emerged as an international best-seller.
Attendees will also enjoy an appearance by music theorist and musician Walter Everett, the author of the celebrated two-volume "Beatles as Musicians" series, published by Oxford University Press. In a similar vein, conference goers will be treated to a performance and presentation by Andy Babiuk, a musician, writer, and music-industry professional for more than 25 years, as well as the author of "Beatles Gear," for which he interviewed over 400 people who worked with or were closely associated with the Beatles, listened to hundreds of recordings, watched miles of film, and amassed a vast library of documents and photographic evidence of the Beatles using their instruments and equipment.
Rounding out the conference's roster of keynote speakers are Jude Southerland Kessler and Richard Langham. Kessler is the author of three volumes in a projected nine-book biographical collection, "The John Lennon Series." Kessler began writing the first volume in 1986, spending 25 positioning herself as one of the top Lennon research authorities by conducting multiple interviews in Liverpool and the United States; by collecting and reading hundreds of books about Lennon; and by utilizing numerous interview DVDs, CDs and periodicals. As the conference's final keynote speaker, Langham formerly served as a recording engineer at Abbey Road Studios, working with the Beatles during their early recording sessions in 1963 and 1964, as well as during the twilight of their career.
The international Beatles celebration will conclude with a commemorative screening of the band's appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 — exactly 50 years after the broadcast of their original 1964 performance. The conference will be held at Penn State Altoona's Devorris Downtown Center. For further details, readers are encouraged to visit the conference Website at http://www.altoona.psu.edu/beatles/ .
Kenneth Womack is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including "Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles" (2007). He has also written three novels: "John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel" (2010), "The Restaurant at the End of the World" (2012), and "Playing the Angel" (2013). A professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, Womack was selected in April to serve as the sixth Penn State Laureate.


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The whaling nations of Iceland and Japan are using Canada as a trans-shipment destination in the trade of meat from endangered fin whales — the same species that Canada has agreed internationally to protect.
Canada says it is helpless to stop the trade, even though it is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which in 1981 listed the fin and other endangered whales under Appendix 1 — the highest level of protection against commercial trade.
Iceland and Japan are also signatories to the convention but did not agree to the 1981 listing, which means they are legally permitted to trade in the whale's meat and even to use Canada as a trans-shipment destination.
"When two countries do so, like Iceland and Japan have for fin whale, Canada has to allow shipments under customs control to transit provided they meet normal documentation and other requirements," Environment Canada spokesperson Jirina Vlk said in a statement Wednesday to The Vancouver Sun.
"CITES clearly provides an exemption for shipments of CITES species in-transit through a country so long as such a shipment remains in customs control, that is, in bond or under seal."
Norway also refused to support the CITES listing by entering what is known as a reservation.
News of Canada's role in the commercial trade of endangered species comes as a shock both to politicians and environmentalists, including Greenpeace, which told The Sun that it received a tip more than a week ago about Iceland shipping 12 containers of whale meat to Halifax.
Greenpeace said they believe that the containers were then sent across Canada by rail to Metro Vancouver to be trans-shipped to Japan.
Sarah King, oceans campaign coordinator for Greenpeace, said it is "shocking" to think that the containers not just showed up in a Canadian port but were allowed to be shipped across the country.
"By allowing the transit of whale meat through the country, Canada is an accomplice ... The federal government must prohibit the transport of whale meat through Canadian ports."
Vlk confirmed that Environment Canada inspected the shipment of whale meat under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act and even conducted DNA samples to confirm it was correctly labelled — and then sent it on its way because it lacked authority to do anything else.
"Since no infraction was found, these shipments of controlled goods were able to transit through Canada under seal, en route to another country, and were exempt from Canadian permitting requirements."
Vlk said this is the first time that Canada has been involved in the trans-shipment of whale meat.
Canada's Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq, declined The Sun's request for an interview.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said from Ottawa she is flabbergasted that Canada could invoke no law to prevent it from being implicated in the trade by "rogue nations" in an endangered species.
"That's awful," she continued. "When you go through the airports they have these wonderful display cases: 'If you're going abroad, don't come back with tortoise shells' ... but I guess if you want to buy a whole lot of endangered whale carcasses you can transport them, put them right through Canada."
May noted Canada also has a black eye for not being a member of the International Whaling Commission. Aboriginal people in the North hunt for narwhals, belugas and bowhead whales for subsistence.
Fin whales are globally rated as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In Canada, they are officially a threatened species, listed under the federal Species At Risk Act.
Iceland suspended the killing of fin whales in 2011 after the Japan earthquake and nuclear accident; the hunt resumed in the 2013 with 134 animals taken. The U.S. government has protested the nation's actions, saying there are undermining global conservation efforts. No one from Iceland's embassy in Ottawa returned The Sun's phone call.
"It's a very unfortunate situation that Canada is being used as a transit," Ernie Cooper, director of WWF Canada's traffic and wildlife trade program, said in Vancouver.
"I would hope that companies, if they knew what they were shipping, would refuse to do it. Let's face it, it's an endangered species. It shouldn't be harvested, it shouldn't be traded."
When about 130 tonnes of Icelandic fin whale meat arrived in Germany last July, shipping companies declined to take the containers on to Japan, and they were sent back to Iceland.
The fin whale is the second largest creature on Earth after the blue whale. Fin whales reach physical maturity at 25 years of age, and range in size from 20 to 27 metres, and 60 to 80 tonnes, according to the federal fisheries department.
Canadian scientists warn that a growing population of fin whales on B.C.'s north coast is at risk from increased tanker traffic associated with the Enbridge Northern Gateway project that would deliver diluted bitumen by pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to the port of Kitimat for export. The danger posed by shipping was evidenced by a dead fin whale that arrived on the bow of cruise ship in Vancouver in 2009.
A Joint Review Panel last December recommended the project proceed with 209 conditions. The federal government has yet to respond to the panel's finding.
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28 years to life for man who shot at NYPD officers
A Manhattan man convicted of shooting at police in an exchange of gunfire on the Lower East Side in February 2012 will serve 28 years to life in prison.
Luis Martinez, 27, was sentenced by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus Friday, two months after Martinez's conviction on charges of first-degree attempted murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Evidence at trial showed Martinez was a marijuana dealer who opened fire with a 9-mm handgun at NYPD officers Thomas Richards and Thomas Dunne when they approached him near the Bernard M. Baruch Houses.
Richards, of Great Neck, was carrying a magazine pouch that was struck by one of Martinez's bullets, sparing Richards an abdominal wound. Martinez was nabbed after he was shot in the buttocks. "If not for the metal gun magazine and leather pouch that prevented the bullet from piercing Officer Thomas Richards' abdomen, he might not be alive today," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a statement Friday. "There is no clearer example of how New York's Finest place their lives on the line every day to keep us safe."
Martinez's attorney, Matthew Myers of Manhattan, said he respects the verdict but will appeal. His client was a full-time student with no criminal record who thought the officers were trying to rob him when the exchange took place, he added. Myers also said the officers' zeal to stop and search Martinez contributed to the shootout.
"The actions of the police officers exacerbated what occurred here," Myers said, adding that Martinez saw the officers shake down someone before he was approached. "He would have walked home."


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Crytek making 'radical' fourth Crysis game, won't be called 'Crysis 4'
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has revealed that Crysis 3 will be the end of the current plot arc that began with the first game, but that the franchise is far from over. There will be a fourth Crysis game but Yerli has stated that the title 'Crysis 4' would be misleading. Find out why below.
Speaking with Eurogamer, Yerli discussed his studio's plans for the franchise.
"[Crysis 3] is the end of the story of Crysis," he said, "but it doesn't mean it's the end of the franchise.
"We are excited about the DNA of Crysis and of the franchise. There can be literally tonnes of titles out there within the franchise. Unlike Far Cry, this time around we feel very flexible about Crysis."
As the current plot arc will end with next year's Crysis 3, calling the next game Crysis 4 would be misleading, Yerli stated, "I wouldn't name it Crysis 4 at this stage because it would be misleading. We want to finalise Prophet's story and Crysis 4 would imply the story just moves on.
"Normally in this time right now we would already have pre-production going on, but because we want to make this something much more radical and new we are looking at it as a bit more of a long term thing. It's too early to talk about it for these reasons."
This means that Crytek may not be pairing up with EA on the project. We'll have more as it happens.
Do you want more from Crysis? What form would you like it to take? Would a new Crytek IP excite you more? Let us know below.


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Many improvements in electronic miniaturization and efficiency can be tied to the development of capacitor technology, and minimizing the dielectric layer thickness has been the primary driver for improving capacitors. But dielectric layers are approaching the nanometer size, at which point they lose their ability to store charge. In last Sunday's Nature Materials, a team from University of California Santa Barbara and Rutgers University provided a physical basis for the loss of performance in thin-film capacitors and suggested methods that could greatly improve the energy storage capacity in next-generation devices.
Today, many capacitors are made with ferroelectric oxides like BaTiO3 and PbTiO3. Both of these materials can shift the Ti4+ ions in response to an external electric field because the Ti4+ ion is slightly too small for its place in the crystal structure. This behavior is slow compared to displacing electron clouds and bond stretching (typical electrical responses in non-ferroelectric, nonconducting materials), but it is immensely powerful in comparison. While these materials cannot respond to extremely fast changes in the electric field, they can store tens of thousands of times more energy than an ordinary dielectric material.
Capacitors are made by sandwiching ferroelectric materials between conducting metal layers. The capacitance is inversely proportional to the ferroelectric layer thickness and directly proportional to the number of layers in the device. These relationships have driven most of the development in the capacitor industry for the last several decades but now scientists are beginning to grow capacitors with thin film technology. As the layer thickness approaches the nanometer scale, however, capacitors lose the ability to store charge.
Previously, it was thought that defects at the metal/dielectric interface were at fault, but capacitors with perfect interfaces exhibited the same behavior. So, the researchers performed first-principle calculations on perfect interfaces to determine the physical origins of the property losses.
In an unsuprising result, they found that high bond strength between the ferroelectric layer and metal layer effectively clamps the displacement of ions in the ferroelectric material and limits polarizability and thus energy storage. However, when the dielectric layer terminates with a layer of oxygen ions, the bond strength is low and an enhanced ionic displacement appears in the system, leading to a dramatic increase in the device's properties.
While the property enhancement is predicted to be impressive, it has not been shown experimentally, and there are a couple of other caveats. The researchers artificially lowered the bond strength in the simulation. Further, the only current fabrication method that can reliably produce perfect, oxygen-terminated interfaces is molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). MBE is a fantastic research tool, but it can hardly be considered a production-ready technology and the ability to accurately control the bond strength between the layers is, well, conjecture at best.
That sound you hear in the background is graduate students around the world evacuating their MBE chambers and changing out the ion sources to be the first to demonstrate interface-enhanced capacitors, but I would not hold my breath waiting for one to appear in the next-generation iPhone.
Nature Materials DOI:10.1038/nmat2429


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