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This introduction covers the setup of the Unfolding library in Processing and the first simple map.
Unfolding works with Processing 1.5 only!
Download the latest version of the Unfolding library at Github. Unzip the archive and put the extracted Unfolding folder into the libraries folder of your Processing sketches.
To find the Processing sketches location on your computer, open the Preferences window of the Processing application and look for the "Sketchbook location" item at the top. You will need to create the "libraries" folder if this is your first contributed library.
Unfolding also needs the library GLGraphics to simplify the handling of OpenGL. Download the GLGraphics library, unzip it and put the GLGraphics folder in the libraries folder.
Restart Processing, start a new sketch and create your first simple map.
To get started, you need to include the Unfolding, OpenGl and GLGraphics library via Sketch » Import Library and put the import statements at the top of your code.
import processing.opengl.*;
import codeanticode.glgraphics.*;
import de.fhpotsdam.unfolding.*;
import de.fhpotsdam.unfolding.geo.*;
import de.fhpotsdam.unfolding.utils.*;
Create a reference to a "Map" object, i.e.
UnfoldingMap map;
In setup() you have to specified the GLGraphics OpenGL renderer as the third parameter of the size() function. Initialize a new map object and add the default event function for basic interaction (double-click to zoom and drag to pan the map).
void setup() {
size(800, 600, GLConstants.GLGRAPHICS);
map = new UnfoldingMap(this);
MapUtils.createDefaultEventDispatcher(this, map);
Once you've done this you can begin to draw the map and run the sketch.
void draw() {
You should get something like this.
That's it. Now you are all set up, and good to go! Check out our other tutorials, and don't forget to browse through the examples.
It might be a good idea to increase the memory for Unfolding applications. For this, go to the Processing Preferences, check the box next to "Increase maximum available memory" and enter an amount, e.g. 1024 MB.

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SriLankan Airlines Pro Opening Day Underway
ARUGAM BAY, Sri Lanka (Tuesday, August 30, 2011) – The SriLankan Airlines Pro has been called on this morning with the Men's ASP World Longboard Tour surfers the first to take to the 2 – 3 foot (1.5 meter) surf at Arugam Bay for a 7:30 start.
"It's small, but the way the waves hug the point here is incredible," said Contest Director Dane Jordan. "We will be running 30 minute heats so the surfers will have plenty of opportunity to get some scores on the little runners."
The surf is expected to be in the 1 -3 foot range for the next few days, but is predicted to rise for an epic finish on the weekend.
The event will be webcast live on www.srilankanairlinespro.com
For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com
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Novel Therapies
In addition to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, which may be considered as "conventional treatments", there are a number of developing or "novel" therapies which are still being tested for safety and effectiveness. Some of these novel therapies are described here.
Immunotherapy is based on the body's natural defense system, which protects us against a variety of diseases.
There is evidence that in many cancer patients the immune system slows down the growth and spread of tumors. The goal of immunotherapy is to harness and enhance the body's natural tendency to defend itself against malignant tumors.
Immunotherapies involving certain cytokines and antibodies have become part of standard cancer treatment and have only recently been used in the treatment of mesothelioma.
Interferons belong to a group of proteins known as cytokines. They are produced naturally by white blood cells in the body (or in the laboratory) in response to infection, inflammation, or stimulation.
There are a number of different interferons. They fall into three main classes: alpha, beta, and gamma. All are proteins (lymphokines) normally produced by the body in response to infection. The interferons have been synthesized using recombinant DNA technology.
Interferon-alpha was one of the first cytokines to show an antitumor effect, and it is able to slow tumor growth directly, as well as help to activate the immune system.
Interleukin is a biological response modifier (substance that can improve the body's natural response to infection and disease) that helps the immune system fight infection and cancer. These substances are normally produced by the body. They are also made in the laboratory for use in treating cancer and other diseases.
Gene Therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, such as a hereditary disease in which a deleterious mutant allele is replaced with a functional one. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it has been used with some success. Antisense therapy is not strictly a form of gene therapy, but is a genetically-mediated therapy and is often considered together with other methods.
Cryoablation is an alternative minimally invasive procedure, showing promise with mesothelioma patients. It uses controlled freezing to dissipate small cancer tumors in a relatively safe and quick manner. With the use of a large needle, compressed argon gas is applied to the targeted tissue, killing the cells it touches.
Used adjunctively with standard therapies for mesothelioma, cryoablation can effectively improve both survival and quality of life. It can be used on surrounding small lesions in order to make a patient eligible for future surgery such as the pleurectomy / decortication (P/D) or extra-pleuralpneumonectomy (EPP) or it can be administered to localized recurrences of disease post-surgically. It can also improve the patient's quality of life when used in a palliative manner to control the pain associated with invading tumor.
Anti-Angiogenesis Tumor angiogenesis is the proliferation of a network of blood vessels that penetrates into cancerous growths, supplying nutrients and oxygen and removing waste products. Tumor angiogenesis actually starts with cancerous tumor cells releasing molecules that send signals to surrounding normal host tissue. This signaling activates certain genes in the host tissue that, in turn, make proteins to encourage growth of new blood vessels.
Angiogenesis Inhibitors are drugs that block the development of new blood vessels, the process known as angiogenesis.
By blocking the development of new blood vessels, researchers hope to cut off the tumor's supply of oxygen and nutrients. This in turn might stop the tumor from growing and spreading to other parts of the body.


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How We Work: An Interview With Sara Drake
December 4, 2013 · Print This Article
Guest post by A.Martinez
I was introduced to the work of Sara Drake at my first Brain Frame event, March 2012. Brain Frame is an event series that invites comic artists to explore the performative side of their work. That night, Sara's shadow puppet performance "The Romance of the Tiger Lady" truly blew me away. I try to avoid using the word 'magic' to describe work, but the kind of child-like captivation I felt in response to this piece was both unexpected and incredibly moving.
Bad At Sports last spoke to Sara just before her two-month teaching venture in Cambodia. It was this trip that inspired "The Romance of the Tiger Lady", and it was also this trip that inspired her (most impressive) self-taught movement towards shadow puppetry. You can find Sara's work online at http://saradrake.info/; she is also the comics writer for Bad At Sports.
A.Martinez: How did you get from making comics into performing shadow puppetry?
Sara Drake: Estrangement. I had just returned to the US from Cambodia where I had been teaching comics, and every way I knew how to articulate myself became erroneous. I needed to communicate in a mode which wouldn't come off as abrasive or didactic within an insular arts community in Chicago. I wasn't ready to process my experiences abroad with other people yet. It takes me a long time to process anything, including my new found political awareness.
Shadow puppets signaled tedious, meditative sessions alone in the dark and allowed me to find a voice I was aware of in the back of my mind but wasn't sure how to wield. So much of my creative life is prefaced with writing and asserting justification for making things. When I'm speaking in shadows, I am literally fumbling around in the dark trying to find bits and pieces to a story.
Martinez: So to begin talking about your piece, The Romance of the Tiger Lady, I want to start with your trip to Cambodia to teach comics to a group of young women. When were you there and for how long?
Drake: I was there for two months in 2011 through an initiative called Independent Youth Driven Media Production in Cambodia. My former teacher, Anne Elizabeth Moore, was looking for creative responses to issues relevant to young women in Phnom Penh. I applied with a gendered comics and self-publishing workshop.
Martinez: How did living in a completely different country teaching comics influence your work?
Drake: I was there for such a short time! I wouldn't exactly consider two months "living" in a foreign country. It did completely shift my life. As for my work I attribute it most to an entangling and dispossession of my morality, which I'm only just beginning to explore through comics.
I am definitely an advocate for travel if you have the means or opportunity to do so, but hesitant to encourage others to pursue a project like mine. There are unique risks and potentially hidden power structures at play. To walk into a community as an outsider with limited understanding could be devastating, despite how well-intentioned an artist may be.
Martinez: Did you watch much shadow puppetry there?
Drake: Only as a tourist. Not as someone who has the ability to talk about the medium affluently or with respect to a long, and important cultural tradition.
Martinez: Of all the comics you read while you were over there, what made you decide to choose this story to work with?
Drake: That's the thing. I did not speak or was literate in Khmer. I had to find comics in the market places and through word of mouth, typically through western expats. Cambodia is still rebuilding from and coming to terms with decades of illegal American bombing, the Khmer Rouge regime, civil war, and persistent corruption. Comics, like all artistic production during the regime, were completely wiped out. The Romance of The Tiger Lady, by Im Sokha, is a horror comics from the 1980s about a were-tiger lady who falls smitten for a hunter. Aside from it being a good story, it was one of the comics that was well liked and looked at often among the women that came to my workshops.
Martinez: So, you made a decision to make this into a shadow puppet performance, and then how did you begin this process?
Drake: I spend a lot of time writing and collecting fragments of ideas until I internalize and visualize moods and feelings. Then I have to somehow translate them into puppets. I am still a bit mystified as to how that happens.
Martinez: The piece is 17 minutes long. About how long did it take you to just cut out all the scenes?
Drake: For Tiger Lady, I wasn't just cutting out the puppets, I was also teaching myself how to make shadow puppets. The show took about three months to physically cut out. A clumsy, one foot after the other sort of business.
Martinez: Did you work mostly by yourself?
Drake: Yes and no! When I'm starting to work on a show there is a germination period of a few months, where I'm working solo on scripting out the story and making all the puppets. Then I get together with a group of puppeteers and a musician to figure out the rest.
Martinez: How did you decide to use an overhead projector for your performances?
Drake: They are the staple, it seems, for shadow puppet shows. The puppet community in Chicago is incredibly supportive. Julia Miller of Manual Cinema, another shadow puppet group, gave me a lot of pointers in the beginning. Knowing about their work was an invaluable resource in the beginning and their work is mind-blowingly gorgeous.
Martinez: Comics are usually a very solitary act, so was it difficult for you to switch to an art that is so collaborative both in its making and its viewing?
Drake: I see this logic posed often to cartoonists and frankly, it's missing the point. Comics are solitary as a process sure! but similar to other art forms, communities have formed up around and about it all over the place. It would seem odd to ask a writer this question. Chicago is not as lonely as my cartoon predecessors would have most believe, yet certainly alienating at times. It bores me when artists use this paradigm as an excuse.
But to answer your question, there was never a time when I haven't been collaborating. Maybe the result isn't always a visual one or one whose end goal is something tangibly producible. For me, cultural production necessitates community involvement and being exposed to as many voices and encouraging access to as many voices as possible.
Martinez: When did PUPhouse form?
Drake: During the production of Saltwater Weather. Early on I realized that the project was going to be ambitiously technical and require a deeper commitment from the artists who stepped up to be puppeteers. Each of us had been collaborating in some form or another outside of shadow puppets. The range of mediums each of us is coming from is pretty protean: textiles, animation, comics, music, filmmaking, theater. PUPhouse, or giving our time together a name, became a way to reinforce what we were building together.
Martinez: Do you like working with a crew of people like that?
Drake: As with any group of humans, you can expect drama. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I mean, I couldn't have it any other way.
Martinez: What's the strangest or coolest thing that's happened to you while working together?
Drake: Being around other artists is strange and cool in general.
One of the perks of being in an experimental puppet company, is that no matter what event or show you are at, if it's going badly or is boring, I always have seven weirdos who I adore to hang out with on the sidelines. Eternal friendship lifestyle.
Martinez: How often do you meet and rehearse for shows?
Drake: When a show is in the works once a week. Sometimes two, three times a week.
It takes longer time than one would think to show someone how to move a small piece of paper from point a to b. . .
Martinez: What is the most difficult thing for you about shadow puppetry?
The physical and emotional labor that goes into it. Shadow puppetry may look effortless from the front but there is a flurry of movement, sweat, and awkward body positions happening backstage. It takes an exceptional group of people to be able to maintain strong friendships after tense long hours of being told their fingers need to act more like animals.
Sometimes puppets catch on fire . . . which, is definitely difficult.
Martinez: What are you currently working on?
Drake: I'm taking a break from puppets for a moment to make a new comic – but I don't want to share all my magic tricks just yet. On top of that, I'm heading out of Chicago for a bit to do an artist residency in Colombia.
Martinez: It seems like you like to travel to new places. Do you work while you're traveling? Or mostly just collect ideas?
Drake: I have a long-term, co-dependent relationship with wanderlust. I intentionally do not go to any place wanting to make work about it. I've found that traveling with a purpose in mind, mediates my experiences. It is however, important that all of the materials I work with are portable. This does two things. I like culture that is definitely small – that's human sized and encourages people to relate to it. And of course, it's practical!
Martinez: Do you keep/have a collection?
Drake: I'm always leaving places. I do not like/enjoy owning things, maybe that's why I work in ephemera and experiences. Although, I am a compulsive autobiographer. I keep a dated record of every book, movie, and art show I've ever read or seen since I was a teenager. I keep meticulous word lists of all sorts of things: new compound words I create, overheard conversations, turns of phrases that sound off, mood words, fragments.
Martinez: What is the most distracting thing for you while you're working?
Drake: Exhaustion. Or not feeling lucid and the feedback loop frustration that comes with that.
Martinez: What's the biggest revelation you've had about the way you work?
Drake: The puppeteers always note that I exclaim "do you hate it?" when I show new work or scenes to them. I have a parasite known to many as self-depreciation.
Martinez: Is there a certain time of day that you feel especially inspired to work, or when ideas come to you?
Drake: I do most of my writing and scripting when I am on my bike. Most days this tends to be the only alone time I have. And of course, shadows are more dramatic after dark. . .
Martinez: Does your cat hang out with you while you work?
Drake: Of course! We have a symbiotic working relationship. I cannot stress enough, how crucial a creative life in the company of other animals is to a human psyche.
Martinez: Is there a piece of advice, art related or not that you think of often?
Drake: When I was small, my dad always used to say, "What makes a good animal, a good animal?"
This was meant to be soothing after some brutal animal world fact on television, a pet death, watching viruses destroy human cells on bring your daughter to work day, etc. It meant, what ensures that animal survives? Is being brutal or dark, something that a human animal might consider bad, a part of what defines that animal? "What makes a good human, good at being human?" This is how I move around in the world ad. infinitum.
All photos courtesy of Gillian Fry and Sara Drake.
A.Martinez is a freelance art and music organizer living in Chicago, IL.
DON BAUM IT: Money And Relevance In Art In Chicago
December 3, 2013 · Print This Article
Guest Post by Britton Bertran
The art economy in Chicago – specific to the visual art market – is busted. It doesn't work and hasn't worked for a long time. Yes, this a provincial observation as we are in a global society, but ask any commercial gallery owner in Chicago that's not one of the Mighty 5, and they'll tell you the same. Yes, more and more people who aren't in Chicago are paying attention to us as a viable location. Chicago is a place that has artists who make (and made) great work and some non-Chicagoans are even buying art from here (good luck in Miami y'all!). But when it comes to a localized presence, we are somewhere near the bottom of the attention totem pole. Where would you place visual art on the Chicago matrix of culture that includes Theater, Music, Dance, and yes, Food?
There are several ingredients that make up this pie: artists (check-plus), galleries (check), arts administrators (check), art critics (check-minus) and collectors (check-minus-minus). One could also add art schools, art jobs and art conversation to this pie. As well, we have venues in which to look at art which is obviously important for this mixture: fancy/academic/contemporary museums, commercial galleries with varying levels of artist representation, medium-sized and smaller not-for-profits, artist-run apartments/storefronts/garages, city-sanctioned public spaces and galleries AND, lest we forget, our computers. These are all parts of this economy and much of its success is reliant on the flow if information that reaches non-art world people and what happens when those people react to what they see. The trouble is that most of those non-artworlders are either taking what they see for granted. In general, they are not really looking, seeing or reacting.
Chicago has a landscape and art is very much in it. So what's missing? Why is it broke and how can we fix it?
Money helps. Money helps a lot. Yes, I know it's gauche to talk about especially in the realm of aesthetics, but the majority of artworlders here are sadly not flush for reasons beyond their control. And yes, I also realize that many artists choose to ignore the money part of their equation as it interferes with the thinking about their work and its discourse. But it still needs to be discussed as it's a part of the system we live within.
I place much of the blame of a lot of the troubles the Chicago art world has on the lack of collectors. There are collectors in Chicago – both with a little c and a big C – but there are just not enough. I'm going to ignore the Collector portion of this equation and focus on the Lil' c's, with the knowledge that one often becomes the other due to the pure pleasure they receive from the act itself.
Who are they? Where are they? Why won't they come out and play? I know they're here: they sit on non-profit auxiliary Boards, they go to First Friday, they eat out three nights a week, they buy condos in the West Loop, they have scooters as alternative transportation devices, they bring their visiting parents to the Art Institute and they could probably tell you at least ten contemporary artists they've heard of.
Since they are here, we have solved part of the problem and this is important because the Lil' c's need to be localized in order for this to work. Next is the hard part: they need to understand that collecting art is a good thing, it's healthy, it's fun and it's really addictive. They need to understand that they don't need to spend a lot of money. They would be helping out this economy from a small business point of view, for both artists and gallerists. They could say, "Hey I'm young, why don't I collect some emerging artists that are the same age as me and we could grow together!" Or they could say, "Hey, if a New York Giants linebacker collects art, why shouldn't I?" Or "I heard that Leo DiCaprio was lurking in the corner of the some art auction last week?" This is a thing that people do! This is something that you, o' Lil' c, would be great at!
Sadly, the majority of the Lil' c's also need to be told what to buy, at least in the beginning. As such, they need the lecture about aesthetics vs. investments, to buy with your eyes and not your ears, that it's more than filling in the space over your couch in that new condo and, if they so desire, art collecting brings with it a whole new set of social structures that can be horrifyingly awesome. An additional secret: Lil' c's don't need Leo money to buy art they just need to be educated.
Is there anyone out there that's taking up this challenge and whisper in the ears of these Lil' c's? There are, but there aren't enough and there aren't enough that are doing it right. Two examples that are doing it right: The Chicago Artist Coalition and Threewalls. The CAC's tagline is "Building a Creative Marketplace". They've re-booted the organization in the last couple of years and are making real strides to make connections between artists and collectors. Threewalls has their CSA Initiative (Community Supported Art) that makes a kind of implied statement on the relationship between non-profit-ness, artists, art-making and the joy of owning artwork. These are also sustainable examples. One-off events (aka Art Fairs) may provide convenience and atmosphere but do little for long term development of collecting as a functionary system beyond good and services. Relationships need to be built which is also part of the fun.
Beyond the money – there is relevance. These are two concepts inextricably associated with each other. In the context of Chicago, with its persistent inferiority complex, relevance especially applies in ways that will always be in flux. Some choose to ignore it, others choose to whole-heartedly embrace it and there are others whose mission in life is to better it.
There used to be individuals who developed a way of thinking and talking about art in Chicago that directly translated into success for a number of artists, both critically and monetarily. Two that come to mind are Don Baum (circa Monster Roster in the late 1960's) and Judith Russi Kirshner (circa Chicago-neo-conceptualism of the late 1980's). The artists that they worked with are well represented in our local art institutions as well as the collections of many Collectors. This is artwork that was disseminated in a way that clever, deft and meaningful within Chicago and then beyond.
This is still happening today in a way that could amount to something bigger. The current Whitney Biennial may provide a stopgap for this situation with near 1/5th of its artists currently working in Chicago, or at least with very close ties. Hopefully, the deserved exposure for those lucky artists will translate into more than a sentence or two in a reputable purveyor of art criticism. There is also a handful of local curators ensconced at our museums who do their part by creating scholarly looks at the recent art history of Chicago artists as well as develop vehicles for showcasing some of our emerging and mid-career artists. But is this enough? When the #WhiBi is over, how many of those artists will have some sort of local gallery representation? How many times will we see the same Tony Tasset/Robert Smithson photo at the MCA?
A surefire way of gaining some sort of relevance in the art world used to be simply having someone write about your work. In Chicago this used to be a little harder than other cities, but it was still there. I used to think that a certain level of professional art criticality and good old fashion art journalism was a part of this puzzle, and I still think it is, but when it comes to creating a sense of relevance – it's a downward spiral. This is something I have no idea how to fix. The state of journalism (online or offline or whatever) is a sad state at this point because there simply isn't enough of it happening on a higher level. At the same time, if someone where to start consistently writing about Art in Chicago in a serious and engaging way, who would be there to read it? Is there anybody reading this that isn't already in some way trying to make a living within the local art scene, or at least attempting to become more relevant in some meaningful way? Writing about art, critically or journalistically, needs an infusion that is less about navel gazing and more about starting a conversation that is extroverted.
Thankfully, there aren't anymore "Chicago schools". Or at least no one (that's not a gallery developing a marketing ploy) has decided to wrangle our artists into any sort of synthesized concrete definition in order to look at them easier. And, if someone where to, what would it look like? Would it be too transparent an attempt at selling? Or does that simply not matter anymore? Being an artist in Chicago might just have to be enough, but it can't be because there is too much at stake. I don't think there is room for another Don Baum in Chicago, but there is room to recognize that there are more questions than answers in this essay.
Bio: Britton Bertran ran 40000 from 2005 to 2008. He currently is an Instructor at SAIC in the Arts Administration and Policy department and the Educational Programs Manager at Urban Gateways. An occasional guest-curator, he has organized exhibitions for the Hyde Park Art Center, the Loyola Museum of Art and several galleries. You can find him trying to be less cranky about the art world on twitter @br_tton. Stay tuned for another guest post about looking forward to 2014 (and maybe a top 10 list of sorts too.)
Guest Post by Autumn Hays
Let us start off by acknowledging that there is a distinct difference between Queer and Transgender subjects. It's important not to lump these two together. Though related and often overlapping, these are not interchangeable terms. Queer being a reclaimed pejorative for gay, and transgender being a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender. (see more.) With that in mind what I would like to look into a reoccurring concern in the discussions that take place around both queer and transgender performance art.
In the last month I have seen multiple panels touching on the subject of new Queer and or Transgender works. There was a definitive connection between all panels: and attempt to shake up current the definitions, and what some define as new codified zones of safety. When I say zones of safety, I am referring a kind of identity politics that sits safely in a form of expression that is confortable enough for new standards of acceptance. Artworks that sit in this comfort zone fail to realize the full potentiality of the subjects and often begging to forum it's own predictable cliché. The challenging of the formulation of a tamed queerness or transgender performance is an often-highlighted theme appearing in new works. The formulation of a safely circumscribed zone undermines the attempt to reconsider the subject due to an inadequate scope.
Queer and or transgender arts panels often attempt to define the new wave of artists making work in these areas. Today many artists are attempting to define a new direction that departs from the identity work that came out the 80s and 90s. Often these earlier works are ascribed the quality of crying out for recognition. Much of the work being produced today is looking for finer definitions, as opposed to this preliminary awareness.
We could go on to talk about the subject of the word Queer as discussed during the roundtable "New Queer Aesthetics" in late October. Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYI) had come to Chicago to exhibit a Queer Fest as an extension of the one in New York at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery . The Chicago show featured artists Suka Off, Bruno Isakovic, Gabreiela Mureb, and Keijaun Thomas. Queer fest distinctly pulls itself away from other Queer festivals which they feel are accepted ideas of the term Queer. As one of the festivals curators, Zvonimir Dobrović, explained, the festival seeks to redefine and challenge preconceived notions of the term Queer. Not all work is made by the LGBT community and instead is defined loosely by a sort of norm-challenging ascetic. After struggling through various definitions, redefinitions, embracing, rejections, fears of washing out the word of meaning completely, and other post-modern linguistic dilemmas an audience member mentions queerness in regards to race, specifically the colored queer. Why is this important? Because the conversations began to progress from the semanticlogical, what is Queer, to what are current Queer issues are concerned about, who are we dealing with the queer female of color in art today.
This November I attended a panel at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Transgender / Arts : A roundtable on the future of transgender cultural production, which included panelists Trish Salah, Jules Rosskam, Julian Carter, David Getsy, and Micha Cárdenas. During the panel many valid points were made about Transgender art. Micha Cárdenas presented important question to the panel, "Where are the trans women of color in art?" Many of the panelist themselves who specialize in Transgender arts could in fact not think of a single artist. The panel began to discus a kind of film festival, performance and art transgender normative narrative. A washed down version, where you began to see something constrained, not quite all the way there. Sitting in a place somewhere in academia where it is comfortable and safe.
How does performance readjust and challenge Queer and Trans identity without losing site of the community in general? There is something that happens to us when we are about to fully realize the other; we find a way to compromise, to only go so far. Many Queer or Trans artist today are attempting to push at the boundaries of a newly accepted normative narrative and point at the things we are forgetting, those who still don't have a voice. The Art world, the world, is still white male dominated. In a way the lull of sleep we put ourselves in this supposedly post-feminism, post-racism, post- sexism, post-gender issues world that we keep referring to as better than it was before is more dangerous. Because hiding under that comfort is the fact we haven't changed all that much, we should be forging new grounds and making sure it doesn't fall asleep.
If I was asked where the new queer or trans aesthetic is headed today, I would say somewhere within the struggle of continuous disturbance, in the understanding that things aren't there yet and we have to keep shaking it up, shaking ourselves up, so we don't become our own worse enemies, the perpetuators of a normative Queer of Trans identity. As performance art specifically keeps pushing on with another panel at the Hemispheric Institute for Performing Arts, this week discussing "Race & the Colonial Impulse: Queer Performance Practices", I look forward t a continued discussion that bridges gaps in the dialogue between racial queer and transgender issues in the arts.
Autumn Hays is an Artist, Curator, Teacher and Writer. She graduated the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Performance where she received the John Quincy Adams Fellowship. She received her BA in Visual Arts at UCSD. Hays was the recipient of numerous scholarships, grants and awards including two major Jack Kent Cooke association scholarships.Currently she is assistant curator at Defibrillator and Directing Coordinator of the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. www.autumnhays.com
Epsiode 425: The Return of James Elkins!
October 21, 2013 · Print This Article
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Comedy Tonight: Even in LA
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Ever heard of the The Second City ? Of course you have. This is a Chicago based arts and culture website, and Second City is "The" comedy theatre in Chicago, right? The Second City Chicago has turned out such comedy greats as Alan Arkin, Fred Willard, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Steven Colbert to name as small group. The Second City opened its doors in Chicago in December of 1959 as a small cabaret theatre. As the success of the Chicago company grew, it gave birth to off shoot companies and comedy schools in Toronto (John Candy, Dave Thomas, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short are all alumni as well), Los Angeles, and touring cast and a TV show called SCTV.
But I don't live in Chicago, I live in Los Angeles, and I am not a part of the comedy world. I watch Saturday Night Live (full of Second City alumnus), and I watch Arrested Development and 30 Rock on loop with my Appletv, but I have never been well versed in the art of sketch, stand-up and improvisational comedy. I work in film. Dark, gritty, independent film where people drink, cry and fight and have irresponsible sex with inappropriate partners…(I'm talking about the characters in my films, not the people in my real life…I swear.) However, recently I've had several friends who have very real interests and talents in comedy and so I've found myself at the Second City Hollywood theatre quite a few times in the last couple of years. This past month I saw two shows by which I was extremely impressed. And not just because the performers are my friends, but also because comedy is HARD and they are working HARD at it and their work pays off for the audience in a big way.
The Second City offers classes for performers from everything to beginners improvisation comedy, to sketch comedy, to comedy tv writing at various stages. I've attended several comedy tv pilot readings and, as a writer myself, am always impressed that people sat down and wrote a show. A whole episode of a show that they invented. They thought of characters, and jokes and silly scenarios that are sometimes totally relatable and sometimes absolutely ridiculous, but hopefully funny enough to make the audience laugh. Sometimes the pilots work, and sometimes they don't. As I mentioned, comedy is hard. At least, it seems hard to me. I've also watched a lot of improv comedy groups. I've learned that there are rules to improv comedy. Always say "Yes" to your improv teammate. Meaning, if your teammate says "hey, you're a cow" then you must say "yes, I'm a cow" and then play the part of a cow for the rest of the sketch. That is the best way to create a cohesive, smooth and funny scene. I've seen this work, and I've seen this implode (usually when the teammate says "I'm not a cow, I'm Matt Damon.") It seems to me that comedy is about commitment to a moment and a character, even if it is isn't the character that you would have wished to have to commit to.
Recently, I've sat in the audience for more sketch comedy. In the last couple of weeks I've seen two very different sketch shows that were all about commitment to character. The first was from a group called The Virgina Slims. They are a duo of performers who, in this show, played the roles of a duo of performers. Ha! The show is called Ronnie and Lorraine's Last Reunion Show IV. A high quality mock TV preview that played as the shows opening told the audience that Ronnie and Lorraine were once the America's Sweethearts of comedy couples (Think Lucy and Dessie or Donnie and Marie (but married)) In their heyday they had comedy specials and musical albums and toured around the world. But drugs, scandal, and divorce drove them apart, but now they are back for a reunion show! Then for the next 50 minutes or so the Virgina Slims (Laura Eichhorn and Pepper Berry) performed comic sketches and songs as Ronnie and Lorraine playing their old characters. It was very Shakespearean…the play within the play and all that. The sketches were swift and funny. Clever and physical. In between the sketches the characters of Ronnie and Lorraine talked directly to the audience about themselves, their struggling careers and occasionally their obviously strained relationship. The actors (Berry and Eichhorn) stayed very committed to their characters both in and out of the sketches, and that's why the show worked so well. These characters were silly and unglamorous but highly relatable. They wore gaudy 1970′s outfits and wigs but so naturally that we as the audience were never distracted by them. At one point Eichhorn's Lorraine sang a dark, serious power ballad about hitting a deer with her car (if I remember correctly) while Berry's Ronnie popped up over and over behind her with different rhythm instruments. Because the performers took the moment so seriously, no winking at the audience, no acknowledgment of the silliness of their wigs and the subject matter of the song, the audience cheered. On the whole, the show was not only a great showcase of the Virgina Slims comedic performance talents, but also of their writing talents, and musical abilities.
The following week I saw a totally different kind of sketch show. Entitled, Ithamar has Nothing to Say, the comedian, Ithamar Enriquez, performed a series of non-verbal sketches to music. It was a mixture of pantomime, scene structure, and interpretive dance all in a one-man show (but that description doesn't do the performance justice.) The show opened by Enriquez (really in his 30′s) as a crotchety old man with a cane shuffling on stage, taking out his teeth (pantomime, of course) and turning on a scratchy old record. Then as the old man fell asleep, Enriquez acted out the characters from the old man's dreams, depending on what song played from the record player (this is my interpretation.) Over the course of the next 30 minutes Enriquez silently became a sexy, elegant female prostitute and several of her drunk Johns, a trio of jazz lovers who can't help but dance when they listen to music, a Mexican wrestler who enthusiastically wrestles (and pins) a soft red blanket, and a hapless magician who you can't help but route for. In one sketch, he used a very weird half monkey/half man puppet to create an uncomfortable run in at a bus stop (we've all had those, if not with a half monkey man puppet) which showcased that this performer has puppetry skills as well. The show was light-hearted and hilarious and even sentimental at times. In the final sketch of his show, the Old Man returns and plays out the entire meeting, courtship, and marriage of he and his wife (the wife being played by the cane,) ending with the two, now old with grown children, relaxing together listening to the scratchy record player. It brought tears to my eyes, both of laughter and of emotion. The show was charming, and hilarious and (other than the creepy masturbating monkey man) completely family friendly. I think my parents would have loved it! I think Enriquez's parents would love it! I do know Ithamar Enriquez personally, and I always knew he was a talented comedian. He works a lot in the industry, in commercials, and TV including Arrested Development, Key and Peele, and The League to name a few recent appearances, and he is high enough in the company at The Second City that he is one of their staff members and teachers as well as a performer, but I thought this silent show showcased talents I hadn't really considered. It harkened back to the brilliance of Charlie Chapman and the silent clowns at the circus (minus the pies in the face and the creepy make-up.) It was his commitment to each character that made you watch, believe, enjoy and most importantly…laugh!
So, The Second City Hollywood may not have the same long standing reputation for great comedy as its forefather The Second City Chicago, but it is in fact churning out great new comics all the time. So, I've had to accept that L.A. is not just a film town where people like me are churning out gritty independent drug movies and big budget space films, but there are also tons of people making thoughtful committed comedy shows as well. This is probably not a surprise to anyone else, I mean, Andy Dick came out of The Second City Hollywood so… But for me, I feel lucky to have found some comedy to balance out the darkness of my Breaking Bad addiction.
For more info on the Virgina Slims check out their Facebook page and follow them on twitter at @VSimprov and follow Ithamar Enriquez at @IthamarEnriquez and check out his website at www.Ithamarenriquez.com.


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As a member of the WAC, I take offense when people just throw out the words "gun show loophole". Show me the loop hole Greg? Tell me what gunshow that I can go to and buy a firearm from that show without being a member in good standing? Each item in the bylaws below is checked via background check and CCP.
Please pay attention to ART. V.A.1.a of the WAC bylaws to wit:
(1) Any person twenty-one or more years of age, not a convicted felon, under indictment for a crime classified as a felony or gross misdemeanor involving deadly force, nor convicted of or under indictment of any other offense which would preclude the ownership or possession of a firearm, adjudicated a habitual drunkard, drug addict or mentally incompetent, or discharged dishonorably from the armed forces of the United States, or otherwise prohibited from possessing a firearm by state or federal law, may, upon submission of a completed application form accompanied by the annual dues, become an Annual Member of W.A.C.Also ART V.A.5 to wit:
At W.A.C. member gatherings, members of such collectors associations who are not themselves members of the W.A.C. may not purchase, sell or trade cartridge firearms made after 1898 as regulated by Federal and/or State law, or firearms of any type prohibited by law in their municipality, county, state or country of residence.In short, if you don't have a member badge, you don't get to buy a firearm. It's even frowned upon to pick them up to look.
Members have been expelled from the WAC for failing to follow these rules. We take them seriously.
You and others talk like it's a backyard sales event... it's not.
So please Greg, enlighten us. If you mean street sales or private sales then say so. You'll have my ear. If not then perhaps you need to study a bit before generalized speaking.
Thank YOU Ironhorse (also a WAC, CCL holder)
I'm so sick of the sheople and sycophants bleating the party line "gun show loophole"
Everyday one of these tools drives down the road with 2ton bullets pointed right at them driving 60 mph...background checks for driving on the road..not so much.
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Fast Facts – Macau
What is Macau?
Macau is a former colony of Portugal, located in China. Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East, as well as the last. Today, Macau has been designated a Special Administrative Region of China, meaning it enjoys near autonomy, except for its foreign affairs and defense, which are taken care of by China. Macau (or Macao) is the name for this region in Portuguese, but it is called Aomen in Chinese.
How did Macau end up a Special Administrative Region of China?
Portuguese traders in the 16th century set up trade in Macau starting around 1535, and had built settlements by 1557. Around 1583 , the Portuguese in Macau were allowed to form a government to handle their affairs under Chinese supervision.
The last dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty, agreed to allow Portugal's continual rule of Macau in the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Amity. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, the People's Republic of China annulled that agreement.
In 1987, the People's Republic of China signed the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, which made Macau a Special Administrative Region starting December 20, 1999. This arrangement will continue until 50 years after the day it went into effect. China has not announced what will happen after this period. Under this agreement, Macau does not have independence from China, but can maintain its own capitalistic system, rather than having to use the Chinese socialist economic system. Macau remains somewhat autonomous from China, though much of its population is Chinese.
Where is Macau located?
Macau is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern coast of China, bordering the Guangdong province of China and the South China Sea. Macau is situated along the Pearl River Delta, across from Hong Kong.
Macau also includes two islands called Coloane and Taipa, now connected by a landmass known as Cotai. These islands are connected to mainland Macau by three bridges.
How big is Macau?
Macau has an area of 28.2 square kilometers, with about 41 kilometers of coastline.
What is the population of Macau?
Macau's population is about 573,000. Since all these people live in such a small area, Macau has the highest population density of any place in the world. Macau also boasts the second highest life expectancy in the world.
What ethnic groups are represented in Macau's population?
Macau's population is made up of about 95% Chinese, and the rest are mainly Macanese, which are people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese (and sometimes African) ancestry.
What religions are practiced in Macau?
Macau's combined cultures of Portugal and China are also demonstrated in the religious practices of the region. Buddhism is practiced in about 50% of the population, and Roman Catholicism makes up about 15%.
What languages are spoken in Macau?
Chinese (Cantonese) and Portuguese are both official languages of Macau.
Other languages spoken in Macau are Hokkien, Mandarin, English, and Tagalog.
Who are the political leaders of Macau?
Since Macau is under the rule of the People's Republic of China, the Chief of State is the President of China, Hu Jintau. The Head of Government is Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On.
What are the main industries in Macau?
Macau is home to one of the world capitals of gambling, even surpassing Las Vegas in their gaming revenue. The casino industry is one of the main sources of income and jobs in Macau.
Since the People's Republic of China decided to relax travel restrictions on their citizens wishing to visit Macau, the tourism industry has skyrocketed in Macau, especially since gambling is illegal in China.
What form of currency is used in Macau?
Macau uses the pataca, which is pegged to the Hong Kong dollar, which is also accepted in the territory.
Why does traffic in Macau drive on the left side of the road when the rest of China drives on the right?
China used to have traffic that drove on the left side and traffic that drove on the right side, albeit in different parts of the country. The northern provinces were right-side drivers, while the southern provinces drove on the left side. In 1946, China decided to switch the entire country to the right side of the road. Macau, being the special entity that it is, continued to allow its cars to drive on the left side.
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Thanks Clay, I did not know all that about Gracie that you mentioned. I heard she was chauffeured around town in her Mercedes. I will pass that on.
umm Driving Miss Gracie ? anyone seen that movie ?
im not sure how this convo got to this point, i was gonna talk some smack about Honorable Ron Wilson still has a missing balance of 57 million dollars
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Hi all
My wife and I are in the process of planning a driving holiday around the UK this coming summer. Our itinerary, at the moment is to leave Sussex where we live and drive to Wales and the Snowdonia National Park, spending a few days touring around the park before driving on to the Lake District, where we will spend another few days, and then driving onto the Yorkshire Dales, where we will spend another few days, before heading south and home, a total of about 12 to 14 days.
My question is, ?if you have been to any of the above locations, which routes would you recommend that give the most spectacular views and are there any little villages that you thought were out of this world and well worth a visit?.
Thank you for any help.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for choosing to visit beautiful North Wales (God, that sounds so artificial: Sorry).
Anyway, as far as Snowdonia goes, there's plenty of beautiful views, some of which you need to walk to and some visible from the road. To pick a few villages at random, you shouldn't miss Llanrwst, Penmachno, Beddgelert, Llanberis, Capel Curig or Bala.
You haven't said what type of accomodation you'll be looking for; there aren't many hotels in the park itself, except for Betws-y-Coed (which has a reputation for high prices, although as I live within an hour's drive, I can't say for certain). There are however plenty of hotels and B&B's in the coastal towns around the outside (eg Cricieth and Porthmadog to the west, Llandudno and Bangor to the North) and a few on the way in, in Wrexham, Llangollen, Corwen and Bala.
Anyway, some of the classic drives include the Llanberis Pass, the Crimea Pass, Nant Francon and the Tanat Valley. Many of these are regularly used by motoring magazines and programmes to test the handling of sportscars, but I've never heard of them hitting anything more valuable than a sheep or a slate wall.
If you need any more details, try http://www.eryri-npa.co.uk , or I'll try to help if I can.
All the best
Croeso y Cymru
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I toured Snowdonia on a coach tour and remember going to a place that is roughly called Penny Pass. The Welsh language is very unusual and so are their names etc. You could look up my Welsh pages it should have it written there. There is a lookout which was spectacular plus a large cafe and gift shop.
Llangolen was just lovely. A real must see as was the countryside around it. If I ever go back to Wales I am going to spend a night at Llangollen. Wales is a very beautiful country if my pictures are anything to go by.
Happy travels.........
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Pen y Pass is the high point of the Llanberis Pass, beautiful place but often very busy (coaches/ cars/ walkers/ climbers etc). Interesting hotel there: Pen-y-Gwrd (www.pyg.co.uk).
Lots of lovely villages all over Snowdonia; you might also consider popping over to Anglesey to visit Beaumaris, or exploring the Lleyn peninsula (Nefyn/ Abersoch/ Aberdaron). Hotel/ b&b acommodation is rather limited, I've found, so best book as soon as possible.
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Olive Bruschetta Recipe
This convenient and colorful party classic from Linda Austin in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, can be made several days in advance. In fact, it actually tastes better if prepared ahead so all the fresh flavors can blend together. Best served at room temperature with a crusty loaf of toasted French bread or your favorite crackers.
- 2 cups grape tomatoes, quartered
- 2 celery ribs, chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded carrot
- 1/4 cup sliced ripe olives
- 1/4 cup sliced pimiento-stuffed olives
- 1/4 cup minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 loaf (1 pound) French bread baguette, sliced and toasted
- In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. In a small bowl, whisk the oil, vinegar, salt and pepper; pour over vegetables and toss to coat. Serve on toasted baguette slices. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
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Made this for my daughter and son-in-law, who recently went on their honeymoon cruise to Italy and Greece and they loved it!!!
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Comment: Who said you needed omnidirectional? (Score 1) 229
Put a medium-sized antenna mast in every neighborhood with a few hundred highly-directional antennae pointing a clusters of 4-16 houses and put highly-directional rooftop antennae on each roof, and you can re-use the spectrum many times over.
Serve these neighborhood antennae with fibre if you can or highly-directional wireless if you can't.
The issues under this system will be that it's a whole new infrastructure including antenna sites, you will need to pick radio frequencies that are largely unaffected by weather and which don't compete with existing frequencies, etc. etc.
But assuming a weather-resistant block of frequencies that can feed lots of bandwidth to dozens of users at once is available, you won't have a frequency-allocation problem.
Another solution, one that may be more practical, is to just chuck the whole wire-to-the-home infrastructure and beef up the cell phone system so everyone can feed their home internet via cellular. Heck, in areas where the cellular network is already robust customers can simply "vote with their feet" now and cancel their land-line service entirely. You guys do have "number portability," don't you? If not, you should. It's nice.


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Megaupload Ltd. is alleged to have disseminated copyright protected movies and music and US prosecutors now have the task of gaining access to the company's servers in a bid to prove their case. In the fascinating Megaupload saga, a Canadian court has been asked to decide what to do with 32 servers belonging to Megaupload which are located in Canada. The servers are packed with information - "100 laptops" worth of data according to the judgement - and the court was asked by the US government to deliver that data to American prosecutors who are pursuing charges against Megaupload for criminal infringement of copyright, conspiracy to infringe copyright, money laundering and racketeering.
In last week's decision, Canada (United States of America) v. Equinix Inc., 2013 ONSC 193, the court denied this request, indicating that the massive volume of data meant that the scope of the investigation should be narrowed to just that information that is the target of the search, rather than the entire contents of the data trove. However, the judge did not deny that the evidence should be delivered. Evidence to implicate Megaupload likely is contained within those servers, and it is only a matter of time and negotiation to determine the scope of the search, rather than an absolute denial of the request. "Given the undisputed conclusion" the judge wrote, "…that there were reasonable grounds to believe that evidence of the offences would be located on the servers in my view the appropriate balance of the state interest in gathering evidence and privacy interests in information can be struck by an order that the servers be brought before the court …so that the court can make an order refining what is to be sent."
From a cloud computing law perspective, this case raises several important points:
We can expect another decision to be released before long, where the contents of the servers are indeed delivered to US prosecutors, with some conditions or limitations as to the scope of the search.
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2013 iaedp Symposium Presents New Insight on Food and Addiction
The Message: Food Addiction is Real and It Affects More People Than You Know
PEKIN, Ill., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- About two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which has spurred awareness of food addiction around the country. Given the severity of the problem and the increasing national concern of the relationship between food and addiction, a center focus of new fields of research has developed. Given its rising importance to both sufferers and professionals who treat, the 27th annual iaedp (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals) 2013 Symposium, held on March 20-24 at the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort, will feature leading eating disorder professionals discussing new studies detailing the research, science and clinical practices of food and addiction.
Recent studies have uncovered a critical clue to help explain a link between food and addiction, which Pamela M. Peeke, MD, MPH, FACPI, will detail in her symposium presentation, Food and Addiction: The Dopamine Made Me Do It. PET scans have identified organic changes in the brain's reward center during active addiction, whether from food or drug addiction. Specifically, chronic exposure to sugary/fatty/salty food combinations appears to reduce the dopamine receptor population. This leads to a dramatic reduction in perceived pleasure and satisfaction, which results in a cycle of seeking more of the food and, consequently, overeating.
Dr. Peeke also will have a separate presentation describing studies concerning the biology and behavior challenges of food and addiction. Studies have shown that in all addictions, there are organic brain changes as well as conditioned behavioral responses that both have to be addressed in prevention and treatment. Therefore, Dr. Peeke claims that the biology and psychology of food addition are intertwined.
Eating disorder specialist, Elisha M. Contner, MS, LMFT, CEDS, also will present findings on the connection between food and addiction and how to treat it appropriately. As a clinician, Contner states that there should be a clear and precise assessment of the eating disorder. The assessment process needs to determine if the food addiction is a primary diagnosis or a co-occurring diagnosis to an existing eating disorder; thereby, the patient would need a treatment plan to address the food addiction appropriately.
"An important focus for each annual Symposium is to deeply consider the serious eating disorders our nation must deal with," said Bonnie Harken, managing director of iaedp. "There's a lot of variety in the treatment topics covered, and our speakers, both in food addiction and other areas of interest, are some of the most accomplished and well-known in their fields."
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Recorded in 1973 after the band's various members had gone their solo ways, this is more like a sampler for their new careers – the individual tracks simply fail to gel as a group effort. Full Circle, to take the first track as an example, is a great Gene Clark song that sounds like a prefiguring of Silver Raven.
It's also significant that two of the tracks written by band members are done better elsewhere: Crosby had already recorded the definitive version of Laughing on If Only I Could Remember My Name, while McGuinn would improve Born To Rock & Roll on (and this is almost unbelievable) the Roger McGuinn & Band LP.
Maybe the inner photo provides the key: Clark laughs as he holds a bottle of beer, Clarke looks genial, Crosby looks immensely self-satisfied, Hillman looks as if he'd rather be anywhere else, McGuinn looks like a man who has just eaten his words – those words being "We'll be better without you" after he fired Crosby.
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After hitting a three-year high during the end of September, refinance activity dropped off in the week ending October 5, which helped slow mortgage application volume, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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5:30pm Thursday 30th August 2012 in Sport
MICHAEL Rutter might have been put through the wars in round eight of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship but insisted it was all worth it.
The 40-year-old headed to Cadwell Park with nothing but pride to play for, with his hopes of making the top-six and the Showdown having long diminished.
But that didn't stop him from enjoying himself, as finishes of 11th and 10th marked just the second time this season he has come away with a double-points haul — the last coming way back in May at Snetterton.
There are just four rounds to go but all eyes will be on the top-six in the final three as they battle it out for the title.
However, Rutter is keen to end the season on a high and believes he is heading in the right direction.
He said: "I feel good after the weekend but I had two crashes in qualifying which were disappointing.
"They knocked me around and hurt my arm a bit and that makes racing quite unpleasant.
"I had my arm pumped up in that second race, something which has never happened before and I think I've done something to my shoulder.
"But we've improved so that's the main thing, I was able to get some real pace from the bike so I'm delighted."
Next up for Rutter is a trip to Donington Park in two weeks time, and he admits he is wishing for a clean bill of health after he saw his hopes at Cadwell Park ruined by his ailing body.
He added: "I think we've learnt a bit more this weekend which is always a bonus, we can see a couple of new things about the bike and they will help our preparations for the end of the season.
"Without the injury I'd probably be saying this was a great weekend but it put a dampener on things, especially considering it probably affected my pace."
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- Products: Iron Man 2, Captain America: The First Avenger
- Franchises: The Avengers, Iron Man
- Associated Features: Marvel Movies, Comic Book Movies of 2010
- Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Cast Members: Garry Shandling, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Mickey Rourke, Olivia Munn, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson
- Director: Jon Favreau
- Writer: Justin Theroux
- Producer: Kevin Feige
- Theatrical Release Date (US): May 7, 2010
- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- Associated Luminaries: Stan Lee
- Notable Characters: Tony Stark
The plot of Iron Man 2 The Videogame will not be centered around the upcoming film, a relief of sorts for the development team who can now add more comic flair into the title.
And that's just part of the measures Matt Fraction and his development team for Iron Man 2 The Videogame have taken to produce a title that's more than the typical "shitty movie game, " a legit concern for fans of the steel suited superhero.
While I was sitting down to talk with Matt Fraction about his involvement with Iron Man 2, a number of Comic-Con attendees continued to look at the pre-alpha build for the upcoming game in motion on the show floor. The question that kept coming up time and time again to the Sega staff was, "Is it better than the first game?" And while a question like that is very hard to answer in the state that the game is currently in (on track for an April '10 release), what is clear after talking to Fraction and seeing the game in action is that Sega is putting a lot of effort into making sure it bests the previous effort from a few years ago.
Part of this help comes from the involvement of Fraction, who authors a number of Marvel properties, including Iron Man. However, his involvement doesn't center around the plot for the game. "I didn't do the plot actually, Michael Kirkbribe and Kyle Frank from Sega put the plot together," explains Fraction. "My real focus was the dialog."
An avid Call of Duty World at War fan (specifically the Zombie parts of it), he is excited to have had a role in the creation of this game and doesn't want to repeat the trend of underwhelming licensed titles. "It was a lot of fun, a challenge...I mean, everyone has played a shitty movie game, shitty tie-in stuff, and at least I could write the cut-scenes I would want to hear. I want to see and try to imagine the character speaking and write a good scene in a way that artfully transmits the information - to give it texture and flavor."
But this isn't a talky, there's pleny of action too. Big action. From the demo. we learned Crimson Dynamo will be a boss for Iron Man to battle in the game. And on the topic of battles, the majority of opponents shown were mech-like or large walking tanks -- quite a bit of improvement from having Iron Man battle soldiers or common infantry and instead going up against robots that look like they were taking off the backlot of Robocop 2.
The combat for the game will allow the player to be either hovering in the air or on the ground, along with interior and exterior battles throughout the course of the game. When hovering, Iron Man's shields will be lower but his movement will be faster. Once on the ground however, movement is decreased but the shields will be fully charged. The risk/reward element of the two styles gives players an option on how they want to play the combat aspects of the game.
Additionally, the ground combat (that is being created by members of the Spider-Man Web of Shadows team) will allow players to pick some different fighting stances when going up against these formidable enemies. A Matrix-like "I know kung-fu," quote started to roll around in my head once a Keanu-esque stance was selected and Iron Man proceeded to pummel the surrounding enemies.
No major plot points were revealed. We could surmise though that the story might have something to do with other rival corporations stealing Tony Stark's technology and using it not only to do very bad things to the world, but find a way to stop Iron Man. Of course, I'm just guessing at this point. As for the gameplay, it won't be until we spend more time with the game, including our eventual hands-on later during the game's life-cycle, that we will know for sure if Sega can deliver on crafting a solid super hero videogame.


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Fruits & Veggies: You Need Both! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzfzd471Qo Mixing up your salads is a great way to get the benefit of both and you may be suprised how much of a taste treat it can be when you have a mixture of different textures and flavors the fruits and vegetables bring to that salad. Spend a little extra time in the produce section your next trip the market, make an effort to find a fruit or vegetable you haven't tried before or one you haven't used in quite some time, mix it into one of your meals and enjoy. START YOUR DAY! The Herbalife meal replacement program has worked for millions of people worldwide and with over 30 years of successful weight management results it is a proven system. INTRODUCING HERBALIFE24
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It seems we are constantly hearing that we need to eat our fruits and vegetables to balance out our nutrition or to improve our nutrient weak western style diet (burger, fries and a soda – want to supersize that?) So we look at the various choices from the plant world that we can eat and based on our personal preferences maybe choose to eat only fruits or only vegetables. Perhaps it's because we don't like the texture of this or the smell of that, but mixing the two groups into your diet will bring a huge group of phytonutrients to your diet while eating only fruits or only vegetables will keep you from getting the full nutritional benefit that combining them will give you. Susan Bowerman wrote a short article on the subject with some great information in it: Fruits AND Vegetables: Why You Need Both
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Smart touchless and wireless computer mouse – evoMouse
This is a fancy mouse that will come into reality with a unique way to use.
It seems like in the near future you will have a mouse that does not need to be held at all or you can move it by just playing your fingers on the table.
evoMouse is a mouse that does not need to be held at all because it uses laser technology to identify the movement of your finger.
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evoMouse also has extra function compared to the ordinary ones. It also able to do other things like Pinch to zoom to rotate in Windows 7 OS.
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Browsing the Nordstrom website I saw several cocktail dresses that would be perfect for an afternoon wedding or social engagement. I think a tea length or short dress rather than a long one was a better choice for my needs. I was thinking of a pale color in maybe a sheath or a-line or even a jacket dress. A dress that was reasonable in price, stylish, comfortable and something I could wear to another function. It couldn't be that hard to find. Since my daughter is getting married soon, I needed a dress that was pretty and feminine, elegant and sophisticated. An all-in-one dress! She's having an afternoon reception in a curved garden setting near a small lake. An area that has an open and airy feeling filled with greenery, architectural interest, pots of flowers everywhere and small tables with crisp white linens. So a simple dress is my first choice as I didn't want to compete among the flora setting. I saw many lovely and charming dresses on the website, and I couldn't wait to see them in person.The collection of cocktail dresses were so impressive, in every silhouette, size, color, brand and price range one could imagine. All so beautiful - how can I possibly choose just one. The selection included sheaths, a-lines, full skirts, v-necks, scoop and even asymmetrical necklines! The attractive dresses came in soft lovely fabrics, modern styles and smart designs. I was looking for a relaxed and easy going but polished look that would observe the formal ceremony but still conform to the natural setting.Well, all my hopes of finding the perfect dress came to a wonderful and rewarding ending as I narrowed down my choices to two pretty and graceful cocktail dresses. The first one was from Donna Ricca - a sheath satin with a few ruffles around a v-neck. The dress was stunning in a haze hue that I loved with a slight cap sleeve - that fit my body type perfectly. What could be better? But the Sue Wong Illusion Bodice Dress was so smart and sophisticated with overlays and three-quarter sleeves. I loved the simplicity and elegance of this dress, the sleeves, and that it was comfortable draping my figure nicely and the taupe shade was ideal. The fabrics and construction for these dresses were outstanding. Although the Sue Wong was a bit pricey - I knew I was worth it on this special day! Yes, I'm going back and forth deciding on the right dress - choosing sandals or pumps to complement this outfit and minimum of jewelry since both dresses really didn't require anything gaudy. As of right now both these flattering dresses would make a beautiful mother of the bride. And that's me!
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Reduced interferon-gamma release in patients recovered from Legionnaires' disease.
BACKGROUND: Legionella pneumophila, a Gram negative intracellular pathogen, causes Legionnaires' disease (LD). Interferon (IFN)-gamma is important for host defence against L pneumophila so reduced IFN-gamma production capacity and/or responsiveness might render humans more susceptible to infection with L pneumophila. METHODS: Seventy seven patients who suffered from LD after a point source outbreak one year earlier participated in the study. Whole blood was incubated with non-specific stimuli (lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or interleukin (IL)-12) or specific stimuli (viable or heat killed L pneumophila) to evaluate IFN-gamma production, and with IFN-gamma to evaluate IFN-gamma responsiveness. Expression of complement receptor 3 on monocytes was determined by flow cytometry. Thirty seven companions who were also exposed but had not developed LD served as controls. RESULTS: Patients released less IFN-gamma than controls in response to stimulation with LPS (mean (SE) 393 (58) pg/ml v 914 (178) pg/ml; p=0.001) and IL-12 (96 (14) pg/ml v 177 (41) pg/ml; p=0.058). IFN-gamma responsiveness, measured by release of IFN-gamma inducible protein (IP)-10, tumour necrosis factor alpha, IL-12 production capacity, and monocyte expression of complement receptor 3, did not differ between patients and controls. IFN-gamma release after stimulation with LPS and IP-10 release after stimulation with IFN-gamma were weakly associated with severity of LD in the former patient group (rho=-0.3, p=0.011 and rho=-0.3, p=0.037, respectively). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that impaired IFN-gamma production may contribute to susceptibility to L pneumophila infection.[1]References
- Reduced interferon-gamma release in patients recovered from Legionnaires' disease. Lettinga, K.D., Weijer, S., Speelman, P., Prins, J.M., Van Der Poll, T., Verbon, A. Thorax (2003) [Pubmed]
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