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From data center to cloud to the network. In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Raul Martynek, CEO of Net Access, will identify the challenges facing both data center providers and enterprise IT as they relate to cross-platform automation. He will then provide insight into designing, building, securing and managing the technology as an integrated service offering.
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Mr. Raul K. Martynek has accumulated extensive experience over the past 20+ years managing and growing international cloud, hosting, data center and telecommunications companies. Currently, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Net Access, a datacenter and managed services business located in Northern New Jersey, USA. Prior to Net Access, Mr. Martynek was the CEO of Voxel dot Net, Inc., a NYC-based managed hosting company that was acquired by Internap Network Services Corp. (NASDAQ: INAP) in January 2012. Previous to Voxel, he served as the CEO of Smart Telecom Co., a Dublin, Ireland based fiber carrier and President and Chief Executive Officer of InfoHighway Communications Corporation, a facilities-based Northeast communications carrier prior to its acquisition by Broadview Networks in May of 2007. Mr. Martynek has also served in various executive roles, including Chief Operating Officer, of Eureka Networks from December 1994 to November 2003.
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High-performing enterprise Software Quality Assurance (SQA) teams validate systems that are ready for use - getting most actively involved as components integrate and form complete systems. These teams catch and report on defects, making sure the customer gets the best software possible. SQA teams have leveraged automation and virtualization to execute more thorough testing in less time - bringing Dev and Ops together, ensuring production readiness. Does the emergence of DevOps mean the end of E...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series dat...
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"Verizon offers public cloud, virtual private cloud as well as private cloud on-premises - many different alternatives. Verizon's deep knowledge in applications and the fact that we are responsible for applications that make call outs to other systems. Those systems and those resources may not be in Verizon Cloud, we understand at the end of the day it's going to be federated," explained Anne Plese, Senior Consultant, Cloud Product Marketing at Verizon Enterprise, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at...
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"For the past 4 years we have been working mainly to export. For the last 3 or 4 years the main market was Russia. In the past year we have been working to expand our footprint in Europe and the United States," explained Andris Gailitis, CEO of DEAC, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect...
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The term culture has had a polarizing effect among DevOps supporters. Some propose that culture change is critical for success with DevOps, but are remiss to define culture. Some talk about a DevOps culture but then reference activities that could lead to culture change and there are those that talk about culture change as a set of behaviors that need to be adopted by those in IT. There is no question that businesses successful in adopting a DevOps mindset have seen departmental culture change, ...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. Acco...
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"Cloud consumption is something we envision at Solgenia. That is trying to let the cloud spread to the user as a consumption, as utility computing. We want to allow the people to just pay for what they use, not a subscription model," explained Ermanno Bonifazi, CEO & Founder of Solgenia, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps,...
Nov. 25, 2014 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,201
SYS-CON Media announced that Centrify, a provider of unified identity management across cloud, mobile and data center environments that delivers single sign-on (SSO) for users and a simplified identity infrastructure for IT, has launched an ad campaign on Cloud Computing Journal. The ads focus on security: how an organization can successfully control privilege for all of the organization's identities to mitigate identity-related risk without slowing down the business, and how Centrify provides ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 PM EST Reads: 1,123
SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP, discussed how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real-time Big Data offerings that help companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA...
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"SAP had made a big transition into the cloud as we believe it has significant value for our customers, drives innovation and is easy to consume. When you look at the SAP portfolio, SAP HANA is the underlying platform and it powers all of our platforms and all of our analytics," explained Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce at SAP, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"We help companies that are using a lot of Software as a Service. We help companies manage and gain visibility into what people are using inside the company and decide to secure them or use standards to lock down or to embrace the adoption of SaaS inside the company," explained Scott Kriz, Co-founder and CEO of Bitium, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Ar...
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SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP, discussed how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real-time Big Data offerings that help companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from ha...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, p...
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This work was supported by the Research Corporation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, the NSF under Award CHE-0349302, and start-up funds from Northwestern University. We thank Prof. Hupp for use of his UV-vis spectrometer, and Prof. Hui Cao and Xiaohue Wu for use of their PL set-up.
Directed Growth of Ordered Arrays of Small-Diameter ZnO Nanowires†
Article first published online: 25 AUG 2004
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400765
Copyright © 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Advanced Materials
Special Issue: Soft Lithography, dedicated to George M. Whitesides
Volume 16, Issue 15, pages 1348–1352, August, 2004
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How to Cite
Greyson, E. C., Babayan, Y. and Odom, T. W. (2004), Directed Growth of Ordered Arrays of Small-Diameter ZnO Nanowires. Adv. Mater., 16: 1348–1352. doi: 10.1002/adma.200400765
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 25 AUG 2004
- Article first published online: 25 AUG 2004
- Manuscript Received: 15 APR 2004
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- Nanowires, metal oxide;
- Protein crystallization;
- Soft lithography;
- Template-directed assembly/synthesis

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Can someone really disappear without a trace? Artist and young mother Sandra Gilles disappears without trace after leaving her three-year-old daughter, Charlotte, with a friend. Her lawyer husband, Naz Malik, is devastated - but he's also the prime suspect in a murder investigation. When Naz vanishes shortly afterwards, Gemma James and her partner Superintendent Duncan Kincaid agree to work together to solve the case before the murderer can get his hands on the real prize; Charlotte....
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National Archives Releases 1940 Census Online
On April 2, 2012, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the 1940 U.S. Census online. This marked the first time the agency has released an official decennial census online. The free official website is available at: http://1940census.archives.gov/
This is the 16th decennial census, marking the 150th anniversary of the census. The 3.9 million images constitute the largest collection of digital information ever released by the National Archives. The website, hosted by Archives.com, includes a database of Americans living within the existing 48 states and 6 territories on April 2, 1940.
The census database is now only searchable at the enumeration district level. An enumeration district is an area that a census taker could cover in two weeks in an urban area and one month in a rural area.
However, within six to nine months, a host of volunteers will have completed a name index, allowing researchers to completely bypass the enumeration districts. FamilySearch.org is coordinating the volunteer effort, and claims that over 100,000 volunteers have already stepped forward for this massive undertaking, including the members of 612 genealogical societies. The coordinators of this effort hope to ultimately "crowdsource" the work to 300,000 volunteers. Volunteers can sign up and receive documents online.
A National Archives video short on YouTube http://tiny.cc/1940Census and on provides a "behind-the-scenes" view of staff preparations and gives viewers tips on how to access the data once it is launched on April 2. This video is in the public domain and not subject to any copyright restrictions. The National Archives encourages the free distribution of it.
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Article: HEART RATE DECREASES DURING HEAD OUT OF WATER IMMERSION AND WITH LOWER BODY WEIGHT SUPPORT: A MEASURE OF VAGAL RESERVE?Journal of strength and conditioning research / National Strength & Conditioning Association. 08/2014;
Article: Biliopancreatic Diversion-Duodenal Switch: Independent Contributions of Sleeve Resection and Duodenal Exclusion.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The choice of first-stage operation in bilio-pancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS) is controversial. There are no published long-term comparisons of one- and two-stage BPD-DS outcomes.Obesity Surgery 05/2014; · 3.10 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The 'obesity paradox' refers to observations that run counter to the thesis that normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m(2)) provides the lowest mortality and higher weight is associated with greater mortality. We argue that the weight of lowest mortality is influenced by aging and chronic disease, with mortality advantage extending into the overweight and even class I obese ranges under some circumstances. A focus on quality nutrition, physical activity, fitness, and maintaining function in these weight ranges may be preferable to a focus on intentional weight loss, which has uncertain effects. The 'obesity paradox' is no 'paradox' if one defines and interprets 'ideal' weight appropriately.International Journal of Obesity accepted article peview online, 15 April 2014. doi:10.1038/ijo.2014.59.International journal of obesity (2005) 04/2014; · 5.22 Impact Factor
- New England Journal of Medicine 04/2014; 370(14):1362-3. · 54.42 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Body weight support (WS) during treadmill exercise is used to rehabilitate orthopedic/neurological patients. WS lowers musculoskeletal strain and load. It compresses the lower body and increases intrathoracic volume. We studied short-term effects of WS on wave reflection indices using applanation tonometry during progressive WS of 25%, 50%, and 75% of body weight in 25 healthy men. WS decreased mean heart rate from 79 to 69 beats/min (P < .001). Peripheral and central mean arterial, systolic, and pulse pressures (PP) remained unchanged. There was a trend toward lower peripheral and central diastolic pressure. PP amplification ratio decreased significantly (P = .005). Reflected wave characteristics: Augmented pressure and index increased in a stepwise manner with WS (both P < .001). Both ejection duration and systolic duration of the reflected pressure wave (Ätr) increased progressively (both P < .001). The round-trip travel time (Δtp) was unchanged. Left ventricular workload and oxygen demand: Left ventricular wasted pressure energy increased (P < .001), and the subendocardial viability ratio decreased (P = .005), whereas the tension time index remained unchanged. In normal men, WS acutely decreases the PP amplification ratio, increases the amplitude and duration of the reflected aortic pressure wave, and increases measures of wasted left ventricular pressure energy and oxygen demand.Journal of the American Society of Hypertension (JASH) 03/2014;
Article: Comment On: Valette et al. Melanocortin-4 Receptor Mutations and Polymorphisms Do Not Affect Weight Loss after Bariatric Surgery. PLOS ONE 2012; 7(11):E48221.PLoS ONE 01/2014; 9(3):e93324. · 3.53 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We previously demonstrated an inverse relationship between both dentate gyrus neurogenesis - a form of neuroplasticity - and expression of the antiapoptotic gene marker, BCL-2 and adult macaque body weight. We therefore explored whether a similar inverse correlation existed in humans between body mass index (BMI) and hippocampal N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), a marker of neuronal integrity and putatively, neuroplasticity. We also studied the relationship of a potentially neurotoxic process, worry, to hippocampal NAA in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and control subjects (CS). We combined two previously studied cohorts of GAD and control subjects. Using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging ((1)H MRSI) in medication-free patients with GAD (n = 29) and a matched healthy control group (n = 22), we determined hippocampal concentrations of (1) NAA (2) choline containing compounds (CHO), and (3) Creatine + phosphocreatine (CR). Data were combined from 1.5 T and 3 T scans by converting values from each cohort to z-scores. Overweight and GAD diagnosis were used as categorical variables while the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) and Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) were used as dependent variables. Overweight subjects (BMI ≥ 25) exhibited lower NAA levels in the hippocampus than normal-weight subjects (BMI < 25) (partial Eta-squared = 0.14) controlling for age, sex and psychiatric diagnosis, and the effect was significant for the right hippocampus in both GAD patients and control subjects. An inverse linear correlation was noted in all subjects between right hippocampal NAA and BMI. High scores on the PSWQ predicted low hippocampal NAA and CR. Both BMI and worry were independent inverse predictors of hippocampal NAA. Overweight was associated with reduced NAA concentrations in the hippocampus with a strong effect size. Future mechanistic studies are warranted.NeuroImage. Clinical. 01/2014; 4:326-35.
Article: Self-report-based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions.American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 06/2013; 97(6):1413-1415. · 6.50 Impact Factor
Article: Differential methylation in glucoregulatory genes of offspring born before vs. after maternal gastrointestinal bypass surgery.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Obesity and overnutrition during pregnancy affect fetal programming of adult disease. Children born after maternal bariatric gastrointestinal bypass surgery (AMS) are less obese and exhibit improved cardiometabolic risk profiles carried into adulthood compared with siblings born before maternal surgery (BMS). This study was designed to analyze the impact of maternal weight loss surgery on methylation levels of genes involved in cardiometabolic pathways in BMS and AMS offspring. Differential methylation analysis between a sibling cohort of 25 BMS and 25 AMS (2-25 y-old) offspring from 20 mothers was conducted to identify biological functions and pathways potentially involved in the improved cardiometabolic profile found in AMS compared with BMS offspring. Links between gene methylation and expression levels were assessed by correlating genomic findings with plasma markers of insulin resistance (fasting insulin and homeostatic model of insulin resistance). A total of 5,698 genes were differentially methylated between BMS and AMS siblings, exhibiting a preponderance of glucoregulatory, inflammatory, and vascular disease genes. Statistically significant correlations between gene methylation levels and gene expression and plasma markers of insulin resistance were consistent with metabolic improvements in AMS offspring, reflected in genes involved in diabetes-related cardiometabolic pathways. This unique clinical study demonstrates that effective treatment of a maternal phenotype is durably detectable in the methylome and transcriptome of subsequent offspring.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 05/2013; · 9.81 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Populations of many countries are becoming increasingly overweight and obese, driven largely by excessive calorie intake and reduced physical activity; greater body mass is accompanied by epidemic levels of comorbid metabolic diseases. At the same time, individuals are living longer. The combination of aging and the increased prevalence of metabolic disease is associated with increases in aging-related comorbid diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular dementia, and sarcopenia. Here, correlative and causal links between diseases of overnutrition and diseases of aging and cognition are explored.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 05/2013; · 4.38 Impact Factor
Article: Comment on: Cohen et al. Effects of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Only Mild Obesity. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1420-1428.Diabetes care 04/2013; 36(4):e58. · 7.74 Impact Factor
Article: Methylation and expression of immune and inflammatory genes in the offspring of bariatric bypass surgery patients.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Background. Maternal obesity, excess weight gain and overnutrition during pregnancy increase risks of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease in the offspring. Maternal biliopancreatic diversion is an effective treatment for severe obesity and is beneficial for offspring born after maternal surgery (AMS). These offspring exhibit lower severe obesity prevalence and improved cardiometabolic risk factors including inflammatory marker compared to siblings born before maternal surgery (BMS). Objective. To assess relationships between maternal bariatric surgery and the methylation/expression of genes involved in the immune and inflammatory pathways. Methods. A differential gene methylation analysis was conducted in a sibling cohort of 25 BMS and 25 AMS offspring from 20 mothers. Following differential gene expression analysis (23 BMS and 23 AMS), pathway analysis was conducted. Correlations between gene methylation/expression and circulating inflammatory markers were computed. Results. Five immune and inflammatory pathways with significant overrepresentation of both differential gene methylation and expression were identified. In the IL-8 pathway, gene methylation correlated with both gene expression and plasma C-reactive protein levels. Conclusion. These results suggest that improvements in cardiometabolic risk markers in AMS compared to BMS offspring may be mediated through differential methylation of genes involved in immune and inflammatory pathways.Journal of obesity 01/2013; 2013:492170.
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ABSTRACT: This opinionated evidence-based selective review addresses flawed concepts related to "obesity", bariatric surgery and approaches to treatment and prevention of a dysmetabolic syndrome of overnutrition and underactivity from the perspective of developmental origins of diseases prevalent in mid-life and beyond. Innovations focus on methods affecting appetite regulation and energy expenditure applicable throughout the life-cycle on the individual level but with transgenerational population-wide implications. Readers can expect new knowledge and enhanced understanding of a global health problem: "diabesity".Maturitas 01/2013; · 2.84 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We postulate that alternating use of microcontroller-regulated delivery and drain pumps connected to one or more sealed subarachnoid fluid exchange ports can maintain localized bi-directional molecular fluxes across pia mater covering multiple diseased areas of the cerebral cortex or spinal cord. This system enables local irrigation with drugs and drainage of endogenous neurotoxic molecules normalizing regional neurochemistry and restoring physiological function. Viewing the pia mater as an endogenous dialysis membrane, testing this hypothesis requires demonstrating: (a) benefits of removing neurotoxic molecules from diseased cerebral cortical or spinal areas via subarachnoid dialysis, (b) neuropharmacological effects of subarachnoid drug delivery and (c) evaluating additive effects of combining the two, as a novel, "pharmacodialysis" procedure. Our supporting experimental data show that this procedure can drain proinflammatory cytokines from the neocortex to the subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid in rats and can prevent focal seizures in monkeys through subarachnoid delivery of muscimol to their neocortex. Subarachnoid pharmacodialysis allows effective site-specific treatment and microcontroller-regulated timing responsive to the evolving course of a disease and can be performed with bedside systems or fully implanted devices. The procedure provides a two-pronged, combined therapy for traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, cortically localized epilepsy, stroke and tumors as well as psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease with pathology of the association cortex. Therapeutic subarachnoid pharmacodialysis drainage of endogenous molecules from the neocortical interstitial space offers unprecedented opportunities to gain new insights into the neurochemistry of the human neocortex in real-life conditions over months or even years.Medical Hypotheses 11/2012; · 1.18 Impact Factor
Article: Impact of bariatric surgery on health care utilization and costs among patients with diabetes.Medical care 05/2012; 50(5):460; author reply 460-1. · 3.24 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Severe obesity (SO) is increasing faster than obesity in adults and in children. Because it is associated with numerous comorbidities, SO accounts for more health care expenditures than any other medical condition. Furthermore, it is associated with poor pregnancy outcomes for mother, fetus, and infant and a high risk of offspring obesity carried into adulthood. Bariatric surgery is the treatment of choice for SO because nonoperative methods fail to provide medically significant durable weight loss and because it is both preventive and therapeutic. The number of operations has sharply increased globally, yet only a small fraction of eligible patients are referred for surgical treatment demonstrating the need for improved access, especially for those disproportionately affected by SO. The risks of surgery mandate careful postoperative long-term multidisciplinary follow-up care. Education is critical for truly informed consent and must continue postoperatively, especially for women with reproductive potential. Even so, surgical treatment of SO remains cost-effective compared to conventional nonoperative treatment, which also requires long-term care. Just as obesity affects all medical disciplines (from allergology and immunology to oncology, urology and women's health), so does postoperative management of bariatric surgery patients. We offer wide-ranging recommendations for policymakers and others to consider in addressing SO. Copyright © 2012 S. Karger GmbH, Freiburg.Obesity Facts 04/2012; 5(2):254-269. · 1.58 Impact Factor
Article: An implantable triple-function device for local drug delivery, cerebrospinal fluid removal and EEG recording in the cranial subdural/subarachnoid space of primates.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Transmeningeal pharmacotherapy for cerebral cortical disorders requires drug delivery through the subdural/subarachnoid space, ideally with a feedback controlled mechanism. We have developed a device suitable for this function. The first novel component of the apparatus is a silicone rubber strip equipped with (a) fluid-exchange ports for both drug delivery and local cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) removal, and (b) EEG recording electrode contacts. This strip can be positioned between the dura and pia maters. The second novel component is an implantable dual minipump that directs fluid movement to and from the silicone strip and is accessible for refilling and emptying the drug and CSF reservoirs, respectively. This minipump is regulated by a battery-powered microcontroller integrating a bi-directional radiofrequency (RF) communication module. The entire apparatus was implanted in 5 macaque monkeys, with the subdural strip positioned over the frontal cortex and the minipump assembly secured to the cranium under a protective cap. The system was successfully tested for up to 8 months for (1) transmeningeal drug delivery using acetylcholine (ACh) and muscimol as test compounds, (2) RF-transmission of neocortical EEG data to assess the efficacy of drug delivery, and (3) local CSF removal for subsequent diagnostic analyses. The device can be used for (a) monitoring neocortical electrophysiology and neurochemistry in freely behaving nonhuman primates for more than 6 months, (b) determining the neurobiological impact of subdural/subarachnoid drug delivery interfaces, (c) obtaining novel neuropharmacological data on the effects of central nervous system (CNS) drugs, and (d) performing translational studies to develop subdural pharmacotherapy devices.Journal of neuroscience methods 01/2012; 203(2):275-83. · 2.30 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Obesity is associated with the insulin resistance metabolic syndrome, postulated to be mediated by stress-induced alterations within the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In adult bonnet macaques we examined relationships between components of the metabolic syndrome, hippocampal neurometabolic asymmetry, an indicator of negative affect, and juvenile cerebrospinal fluid (csf) corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) levels obtained after stress exposure associated with maternal food insecurity and in controls. Eleven adult male monkeys (seven with early life stress) who had undergone csf-CRF analyses as juveniles had magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of bilateral hippocampus, morphometry (body mass index, BMI; sagittal abdominal diameter, SAD) and determination of fasting plasma glucose and insulin as adults. Neurometabolite ratios included N-acetyl-aspartate as numerator (NAA; a marker of neuronal integrity) and choline (Cho; cell turnover) and creatine (Cr; reference analyte) as denominators. Elevated juvenile csf-CRF levels positively predicted adult BMI and SAD and were associated with right>left shift of NAA ratio within the hippocampus. Adult visceral obesity and insulin level correlated with right>left shift in hippocampal NAA concentrations, controlling for age and denominator. Juvenile csf-CRF levels, a neuropeptide associated with early life stress, predict adult visceral obesity and hippocampal asymmetry supporting the hypothesis that metabolic syndrome in adults may be related to early life stress. Furthermore, this study demonstrates asymmetrical hippocampal alterations related to obesity.Physiology & Behavior 03/2011; 103(5):535-9. · 3.16 Impact Factor
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Enrolment for Norseman 2013 will open at 07:00 CET on Saturday 27 October and close a week later, at 07:00 CET on Saturday 3 November 2012.
Norseman is not a first-come-first-serve event. All who enrol at any time during the week in which enrolment is open, have a ticket in the lottery. The participation fee is NOK 2750 (€370). To register, athletes will need a valid credit card, either Visa or Mastercard. The registration process will authorise cards for this amount, but cards will only be charged to those athletes who are awarded a slot in the 2013 race.
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Chapter 4: No Words Can Describe
Sorry for the late update, everyone, because
I know you can't wait to see more of this fic! I know I can't!
Remember the super-exposition from last chapter? There's more! Yes, apparently Conor knows Rouge. In fact, they were in love! Wait...
Oh, and, apparently Conor really is Sonicverse
, because as soon as he takes off his hat and glasses, she recognises him...wit a sec...she and Fiona went over to him after his
opening fee courtesy of Amy and Blaze!
Was he wearing his hat and glasses during that?
Here, for those who daren't believe it to be true, is Conor's little bit of exposition:
-We were in love you and I said Conor. We were dating back in Knothole do you remember we went to steal the Master Emerald in the emerald chamber but Robotnick and Metal Sonic were there fighting Locke and then the freedom fighters showed up. I died and Knuckles took the emerald.-
So this...really is meant to be Archie canon? Can I just say, again, that NICOLE keeps watch on the entire city this
take place in? It wasn't even new when he wrote this! The storyline for it started in 1007, three years prior to this fan-fics horrible existence!
Next, Conor decides he will get revenge on Sonic - meaning the whole deal that started this fic is off. He asks Fiona to join him and Rouge, to which she says:
-So you're that Conor Fiona said. You wanna get Sonic so do I he and Mighty left me in a jail cell for years while they escaped. I'll help.-
Fiona wants to get Sonic, fair enough. BUT did I miss the issue where Might helped Sonic fight her? Apparently so! Also, she doesn't say
they escaped from...Knothole, she means? If she means Knothole, she is sorely mistaken as I'm pretty sure that A:
in Knothole was captured when Eggman destroyed it, and B: Fiona was in Moebius at the time, as were the rest of the Supression Squad.
Well, whatever, we have our new band of villain-protagonists, who, given the way Conor says it, are about to get it on. Thankfully, we head over to Sonic's house next. Sonic and Shadow get ready for bed, but Shadow seems...displeased, Sonic takes a wild guess:
-Look if you're mad about the restaurant the girls still love me I can't help that and the Conor guy might take an interest in me but I still love you Sonic said affectionately.-
Clarke Kent Syndrome seems to be infecting Sonic, too, as even though he
apparently fought Conor
, he is completely clueless to the fact that the Conor from the restaurant, who he thinks is crushing on him, is the same person.
Back with Conor, he, Fiona and Rouge are, apparently going to dick around with our homosexual duo (ugh!) and make it seem like a nightmare. Somehow. What does said nightmare consist of? Well, here it is in action:
-Shadow began to twist and turn in his sleep suddenly he opened his eyes to see a figure in black looming over him he put a hand over Shadows mouth and in a flash they were on a skyscraper the dark figure was holding Shadow by the throat over the ledge. He let go Shadow screamed as he plummeted towards the ground as he hit the pavement he woke up to see Sonic sleeping and Shadow looked around the room nothing but a nightmare he told himself as he fell back asleep.
Sonic woke to the feeling of something stroking his thighs and c##k Shadow you dirty boy he said as he looked down to see Amy naked rubbing his c##k looking entranced at it she saw a fox that he couldn't remember and Rouge pinning his arms back they were also naked while Blaze sat on his stomach rubbing his chest and a hedgehog in black place a hand over his mouth Sonic began to struggle but the girls and the hedgehog didn't move the hedgehog spoke in a whisper of a voice "You've got skeletons in your closet" Sonic arched his back as he [you-know-what] in Amys mouth. The hedgehog smiled and in a flash Sonic woke up sweating he looked down to find that the girls and hedgehog were nowhere to be seen Shadow was sleeping he fell back asleep.
Both hedgehogs got little sleep from constant bad dreams Sonic dreamed the hedgehog in black kept dunking him in water and Shadow saw Maria being shot before his eyes by a hedgehog in black all the time girls surrounded him giggling and laughing.-
I...don't know either. Oh, and, Amy was involved, I guess. Also, some words may be slightly censored. Think of the children!
They visit Mario and Luigi about their problems and our author suddenly remembers that Mario is meant to be stereotypically Italian by doing the age old-a a's to end-a certain words-a. Oh, and Shadow is retarded when it comes to explaining things:
-He had no emotion on his face while he did it I couldn't see his face but he eyes were Blue and full of hate-
Well done, Shadow, well done.
So, back to Conor. The next step of the plan is, get this, to freak out Tails, force him to join them, and torture Sonic by having Amy and Blaze screw him senseless (Best. Torture. Ever.) and also, Conor has some old friends to call up. Will they be canon characters acting completely OOC, too?
Conor then chokes on his cereal after a very short
moment from Rouge and Fiona. Sadly, it doesn't kill him, instead he ends the chapter like so:
-One guy who can't die whose gona get revenge on his old friend and lives in a house full of bisexual girls dying for a fuck what else could I want? Conor laughed He sat down at the TV as the girls sat around him Rouge and Fiona in his lap Amy and Blaze holding his arms Conor sat back and smiled-
Thus, the chapter ends, and I can only be so greatful for it, later everybody!
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What... just... what is this? Ok, I have to ask, does this make ANY sense if you're familiar with the Sonic Canon? Because I'm... really not following, so I'm left here, trying to eloquently describe to myself just how much of a Stu our hero(?) is, and I'm not even doing so hot at that.
Also, minor correction. You labeled this chapter as #4, but the chapter in question was #5.
slowzombie 6th May 11
No. It makes no sense of ANY Sonic canon. Also, the chapter numbers refer to the installment number, not the chapter of the fanfiction. Is they were, the last installment would've been called Chapters 3-4, after all.
sanityisoverrated 7th May 11
My brain doesn't work the way it should these days. My bad :/
slowzombie 7th May 11
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A new coal industry-backed study shows that U.S. EPA's power plant rules for various pollutants would have the combined effort of driving up power costs and stressing U.S. manufacturing.
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The Anderson County Tourism Commission made a unanimous decision to accept a proposal for a part-time executive director position with an annual salary of $12,000 at a meeting Oct. 14.
As outlined in the job description, the executive director will be responsible for performing administrative and marketing duties to simulate economic development and promote tourism within Anderson County.
Anderson Countians will join the nation today in heading to the poll to decide races with national and local ramifications.
Voters here will select Lawrenceburg's next mayor, along with deciding who will be Anderson County's next judge-executive, county clerk, state representative, Family Court and District Court judges.
Other races include seats on the city council and fiscal court.
Voters will also settle the hotly contested race for a US Senate seat between incumbent Mitch McConnell and challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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Tonight (Friday) is the final night of the year for Misery Manor, the haunted house that has produced plenty of screams and bad dreams at Eagle Lake Convention Center.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and are expected to remain open well into the early morning hours. Admission is $5, with all net proceeds benefitting Sheriff Troy Young's Shop With a Cop program.
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Anderson County will soon have an industrial park it can call its own.
The Lawrenceburg-Anderson County Economic Development Authority voted Monday morning to purchase 47 acres of land on US 127 just south of the Bluegrass Parkway for $465,000.
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Rough-and-tumble contests for mayor and county clerk will be settled when voters head to the polls from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, along with a host of other hotly contested races.
The three-way race to replace outgoing Mayor Edwinna Baker includes James Ritchey, who in an interview that appears on page A14, delivers a blistering rebuke of Baker's time in office, vows to oust the city's police chief and attorney and lays out his plan to fix what he says is wrong with Lawrenceburg.
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Party affiliation: Republican
Office sought: 4th District magistrate
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Thursday's New York Times had a feature on the coach of the UMass-Lowell men's hockey team, which was about to take part in the Division 1 NCAA tournament for the first time in 16 years.
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The story dealt with how coach Norm Bazin's current players didn't know he was almost killed by a drunk driver just north of Spokane in 2003 as he headed up to British Columbia on a recruiting trip while on the staff at Colorado College.
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You may have noticed variations of the term "online trolling" creeping their way into the style guides of your favourite news outlets over the past year. What the Internet need not attempt is to expunge trolls. Instead, the digital class must work towards a renegotiation of its idioms. A key part of this process will be coaxing more nuance from terms like trolls and trolling, insisting on new ways of delineating the undesirable from the criminal: the process from the by-product. Resist the rush to concede the perch of the troll; it's all many of us have left.
Every year, CIRA holds elections and, just like electing a politician to represent your views about how the country should be run, you can elect the CIRA board to represent your views about how the country's Internet should be run. These elections are important. CIRA has considerable resources that could be put more forcefully towards ensuring Canadians have open and affordable options for Internet access. This year four places on CIRA's board are up for election.
Ensuring Canada has an accessible, affordable, surveillance-free, and open Internet is essential for our economy, culture, and global competitiveness. Minister James Moore has the power to take on Canada's entrenched Big Telecom giants. Here are 10 actions Minister Moore should take to leave a lasting positive legacy for Canadian Internet users.
Parents: Facebook is not in the business of raising my child, nor should you expect Facebook to raise yours. It is not the responsibility of Twitter to make sure my child behaves well online -- it is my responsibility to make sure my child behaves in any environment. If we want major change, it will not come from laws or banning people from websites; it will come from parents, communities, and schools to engage in dialogue and education to raise children who have an understanding of digital citizenship and accountability for their online and offline actions, because accountability and respect still matter.
Internet freedoms are absolutely essential to protecting democratic values in an interconnected age. They are also increasingly under siege. To defend the open Internet, hundreds of thousands of people and organizations, including OpenMedia.org, have come together to support the Declaration of Internet Freedom.
When I leave the country to explore another, I usually take my laptop and phone with me to work on the fly and to check-in on things back home. The problem with using your smartphone in the U.S. or overseas is that data rates can get super expensive. Here are a couple places where you can be a WiFi bandit while travelling.
Why is porn not being policed on the net? Regardless of your opinion on the existence of porn in the world at large, children of any age SHOULD NOT have access to it. This is serious stuff. It deserves our undivided attention. Especially because kids, by and large, learn much by modelling behaviour they see.
As part of her attempts to win the womens' vote for this election, Christy Clark and her various women and mom-focused ministers have been inviting moms and working women to small round table discussions to raise awareness about what the Liberal government can do to help mothers and working mothers in particular. The biggest issue that was brought up over and over was childcare. Due to love of career or by pure financial necessity, more women are working AND raising families and AFFORDABLE childcare has to be part of this juggling act. However what was emphasized also was FLEXIBLE childcare. Why? Because working mothers are not settling back into traditional 9-to-5 positions or even the few remaining shift work employment available out there. What are working mothers doing now? We are creating our OWN work.
While it took a few years after the financial crisis for financial services start-ups to get their business models refined to the point where they can come to market they are here now, and these alternative financial services technology companies are becoming viable and increasingly common sources of financing for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Anything that there is a demand for on the Internet, will exist on the Internet. If the old news media is unprofitable and disappears, it will be replaced by something new and probably better. It is true that the Internet is changing the media, very rapidly but those who claim that it is "killing the media" or any part of it are generally those who haven't been able to adapt.
He's young, lean, handsome, well over six feet tall, has dark, curly hair, a smile that makes women go weak at the knees, wants to build a better world and is the son of a famous Liberal Party leader. No, he's not the one you're thinking of. Instead of trying to become the next prime minister of Canada, this one's trying something even tougher.
Simply by reading this, there could be a cheque with your name on it in the amount of $8,870 or more -- this year, next year and every year thereafter. Where do these huge savings come from? From simple, common sense things like price matching online, buying online, digital coupons, or finding cheap or free ways to solve problems. The average Internet connected family frees up thousands of dollars without giving up anything at all.
The current terrain of Canadian spying legislation is complex. Bill C-30 is dead, and that is cause to celebrate. But it's also important to remain vigilant. Serious questions remain over bill C-55 and its so-called "emergency" situations, as well as how long authorities can continue to monitor communications after getting approval for intercept. At the same time, bill C-55 represents an opportunity to limit warrantless wiretaps to emergency situations only. Such a stipulation would prevent future attempts at mass surveillance along the lines of bill C-30.
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Since first hitting our radar last fall, Paypa's been receiving an ever-increasing level of acclaim from listeners in the Booth and beyond. Be that as it may, the L.A.-by-way-of-Chicago emcee is far from satisfied; on the latest leak off his next street release, the artist asks, "Where's the Love?", laying claim to the hearts and minds of hip-hop-lovers everywhere over the brass-laced production of Bink!. Naledge, a fellow Windy City repper and one-half of Kidz in the Hall, contributes guest bars. Henny on the Rocks 2 has yet to receive a drop date, but listeners can still stream and download its predecessor for free in the the Booth.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The city is once again shutting down an Occupy Madison encampment blocks from the state Capitol.
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Buster Keaton was not the Great Stone Face so much as a man who kept his composure in the center of chaos. Other silent actors might mug to get a point across, but Keaton remained observant and collected. That's one reason his best movies have aged better than those of his rival, Charlie Chaplin. He seems like a modern visitor to the world of the silent clowns.
Consider an opening sequence in "The General" (1927), his masterpiece about a Southern railway engineer who has "only two loves in his life" -- his locomotive and the beautiful Annabelle Lee. Early in the film, Keaton, dressed in his Sunday best, walks to his girl's house. He is unaware that two small boys are following him, marching in lockstep--and that following them is Annabelle Lee herself (Marion Mack).
He arrives at her door. She watches unobserved. He polishes his shoes on the backs of his pants legs, and then knocks, pauses, looks about, and sees her standing right behind him. This moment would have inspired an overacted double-take from many other silent comedians. Keaton plays it with his face registering merely heightened interest.
They go inside. He sits next to her on the sofa. He becomes aware that the boys have followed them in. His face reflects slight unhappiness. He rises, puts on his hat as if to leave and opens the door, displaying such courtesy you would think the boys were his guests. The boys walk out and he closes the door on them.
He is not a man playing for laughs, but a man absorbed in a call on the most important person in his life. That's why it's funny. That's also why the movie's most famous shot works--the one where, rejected by his girl, he sits disconsolately on the drive-rod of the big engine. As it begins to move, it lifts him up and down, but he does not notice, because he thinks only of Annabelle Lee.
This series of shots establishes his character as a man who takes himself seriously, and that is the note he will sound all through the film. We don't laugh at Keaton, but identify with him.
"The General" is an epic of silent comedy, one of the most expensive films of its time, including an accurate historical recreation of a Civil War episode, hundreds of extras, dangerous stunt sequences, and an actual locomotive falling from a burning bridge into a gorge far below. It was inspired by a real event; the screenplay was based on the book "The Great Locomotive Chase," written by William Pittenger, the engineer who was involved.
As the film opens, war has been declared and Johnny Gray (Keaton) has been turned down by a rebel enlisting officer (he is more valuable as an engineer, although nobody explains that to him). "I don't want you to speak to me again until you are in uniform," Annabelle declares. Time passes. Johnny is the engineer of the General, a Southern locomotive. The train is stolen by Union spies, and Johnny chases it on foot, by sidecar, by bicycle and finally with another locomotive, the Texas. Then the two sides switch trains, and the chase continues in reverse. Annabelle was a passenger on the stolen train, becomes a prisoner of the Union troops, is rescued by Johnny and rides with him during the climactic chase scenes that end with the famous shot of the Texas falling into the gorge (where, it is said, its rusted hulk remains to this day).
It would seem logically difficult to have much of a chase involving trains, since they must remain on tracks, and so one must forever be behind the other one--right? Keaton defies logic with one ingenious silent comic sequence after another, and it is important to note that he never used a double and did all of his own stunts, even very dangerous ones, with a calm acrobatic grace.
The train's obvious limitations provide him with ideas. An entire Southern retreat and Northern advance take place unnoticed behind him, while he chops wood. Two sight gags involve his puzzlement when rail cars he thought were behind him somehow reappear in front of him. He sets up the locations along the way, so that he can exploit them differently on the way back. One famous sequence involves a cannon on a flat car, which Keaton wants to fire at the other train. He lights the fuse and runs back to the locomotive, only to see that the cannon has slowly reversed itself and is now pointed straight at him.
One inspiration builds into another: To shield himself from the cannonball, he runs forward and sits on the cowcatcher of the speeding Texas, with no one at the controls and a big railroad tie in his arms. The Union men throw another tie onto the tracks, and Keaton, with perfect aim and timing, knocks the second off by throwing the first. It's flawless and perfect, but consider how risky it is to sit on the front of a locomotive hoping one tie will knock another out of the way without either one smashing your brains out.
Between chase scenes, he blunders into a house where the Northern generals are planning their strategy, and rescues Annabelle Lee--but not before Keaton creates a perfect little cinematic joke.
He is hiding under the dining table as the Northerners confer. One of them burns a hole in the tablecloth with his cigar. Annabelle Lee is brought into the room, and we see Keaton's eye peering through the hole--and then there's a reverse shot of the girl, with Keaton using the hole in the cloth to create a "found" iris shot--one of those shots so beloved of Griffith, in which a circle is drawn around a key element on the screen.
"The General" was voted one of the 10 greatest films of all time in the authoritative Sight & Sound poll. Who knows if it is even Keaton's greatest? Others might choose "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928). His other classics include "Our Hospitality" (1923), "The Navigator" (1924), "Go West" (1925) and "The Cameraman" (1928), in which he played a would-be newsreel photographer who lucks into his career.
Born in 1897, the same year as the cinema, he grew up in a vaudeville family. As part of the act, he was literally thrown around the stage; like W.C. Fields, he learned his physical skills in a painful childhood apprenticeship. He started in films with Fatty Arbuckle in 1917 and directed his first shorts in 1920. In less than a decade, from 1920 to 1928, he created a body of work that stands beside Chaplin's (some would say above it), and he did it with fewer resources because he was never as popular or well-funded as the Little Tramp.
Then the talkies came in, he made an ill-advised deal with MGM that ended his artistic independence, and the rest of his life was a long second act--so long that in the 1940s he was reduced to doing a live half-hour TV show in Los Angeles. But it was also long enough that his genius was rediscovered, and he made a crucial late work, Samuel Beckett's "Film" (1965), and was hailed with a retrospective at Venice shortly before his death in 1966.
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The public face of Colombia has changed immensely over the past ten years and is still changing for the better. Tony will explore several regions of the country from the mountains down to the Caribbean coast to the coca leaf growing inlands formerly controlled by drug cartels.
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