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Johannesburg – The return of captain Marsha Marescia and veteran Pietie Coetzee has boosted the SA women's hockey team, according to assistant coach Fabian Gregory, as the hosts look to bounce back against Belgium.
South Africa lost 4-0 to Belgium in a four-Test series last week, and Gregory hoped the added experience of their senior players would assist his side as they prepared to square up against the Belgians once more in a World League match in Cape Town on Thursday.
While Marescia and Coetzee had missed out on the Test series, they returned to action on Tuesday, with Marescia earning her 300th cap and Coetzee bagging a brace to stretch her international record to 250 goals in South Africa's 6-0 defeat of Ghana in their World League opener.
"The way we have trained over the past few days and the addition of captain Marsha Marescia and world record goalscorer Pietie Coetzee to our ranks has added huge value," Gregory said on Wednesday.
"Together, Marsha and Pietie have over 500 Test matches worth of experience and have been at many major tournaments, and Pietie's ability as an exceptional goalscorer in all phases, alongside Marsha's consummate skills in the midfield, gives them a huge presence and frees up our other players."
He added, however, that they would need to be on top of their game if they were to beat a Belgian side that dominated the Test series last week.
"We are still looking to make improvements in the attacking third of the field. It's a major focus for us because we believe that's where the match will be won or lost," Gregory said.
Belgium coach Pascal Kina, a former technical advisor to the SA team, boasted a solid outfit that would be tough to beat as the hosts went in search of revenge.
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ROBERT Smerdon will head to New South Wales on Thursday with his unbeaten two-year-old Calcatta, with the trainer hoping success in the Magic Millions Wyong Classic will guarantee the filly a start in the $2 million classic next month on the Gold Coast.
Smerdon has never had a Magic Millions Classic starter, but should Calcatta finish in the top two in the $200,000 race at Wyong it will seal her entry.
''She has done everything right since her only start at Moonee Valley recently and the money on offer on the Gold Coast is so good that you have got to work through a program that will get her into the field,'' Smerdon said.
Dwayne Dunn will ride the youngster. Costing $65,000 at last year's Magic Millions sale, Calcatta is raced by a group of expatriate Australians based in Hong Kong. ''They have had a bit of luck with me as the first horse they had was Tai Tai Tess who has given them a lot of fun and she will also go to Queensland for another race on the Magic Millions program.
''But Thursday will not be easy as there will be a lot of trainers also looking at the race and thinking this is a good passageway into the classic. But she is a very nice filly who is well worth sending north.''
Meanwhile, Laurie Laxon left it to the last race of the season to claim a seventh Singapore trainers' title.
In a nail-biting finish to the 2012 premiership, Laxon trained Speedy Ahead to win the final event at Kranji, which put him level on 76 wins with Michael Freedman. He was awarded the title after a countback as he had trained more second placegetters.
Laxon, best known as the trainer of the 1988 Melbourne Cup winner Empire Rose, relocated to Singapore in 2000.
''This seventh title means a lot to me as Singapore, to me, is the best place to race a horse,'' he told the Singapore Turf Club website.
''The money you earn is worth every dollar you spend, it's fantastic. In my 13 years spent here, I've never seen a premiership go so close. Usually, whether it's the trainers', jockeys' or apprentice jockeys, it is settled before the last meeting … It's only in the last weeks, seeing how it was so close, that I decided to give it a go.''
The youngest of Australia's Freedman brothers, Michael has been in Singapore for five seasons.
Brazil's Joao Moreira made a one-act affair of the jockeys' premiership, ridding 206 winners to beat Australian riders Stephen Baster (72) and Dan Beasley (67).
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Ex: Earlier this evening USA Today officially broke the news (which as of this writing has been pulled from USA Today's Game Hunters section) that Microsoft's Project Natal's final name is Kinect. Most likely a play on the words 'connect' and 'kinetic,' the Xbox 360 peripheral is expected to make an impact with its controller-free, motion sensing technology.
Then why is it so easy to draw parallels to the Wii when analyzing the Kinect launch lineup?
So true. So true. Same thing with the MOVE. Motion controls are jsut a gimmick trying to copy Nintendo's style.
But even MOVE is imitating Wii Games. These games are expected to demonstrate the technology. They are easy to make and demonstrate the concept and use of the product in a way that everyone can relate to. That's why they exist. However, I surely expect more to come out of the products.
I don't like articles like this that try to start unnecessary controversy. People shouldn't be surprised seeing these early demo titles. The title of this article makes it sound as if Kinect has to be either innovative or imitative. Frankly the word "innovative" gets tossed around way too much for my liking, but the point is that these titles are completely expected and the title makes it sound like Imitation or Innovation are the only options. So either do something that gamers have never seen or GTFO? I hope no one has endorsed that attitude. I know MS tried to hype it as innovative but that's like believing Sony's PS3 really does "Everything". I have expectations for Kinect but I'm not going to deem it a failure if it doesn't "innovate" gaming, especially based off these demo titles. What kind of journalism does that? The idea is to see the technology and to build off of it. You can't expect complex games to form. Even Socom 4 isn't using MOVE exclusively, we've yet to see a game use the features of motion control more exclusively and we shouldn't today. The following week will change all of that.
I would withhold judgment until the 17th when MS reveals everything else about Kinect.
Remember, tomorrow is not about Kinect at all, just the 360. There is a separate day for Kinect.
@Alpha- Bubbles up!
@sunnyd- LOL at ur stealth edit dude.
He's jealous because he wasn't invited to Kinect conference.
Watch the damn live blogs and know there's a lot of stuff apart from what LA Times revealed. Double vader's light saber included =)
Anyone who honestly thought these were gonna be for the hardcore market is delusional, these are such a blatant cash grab for the casual market. I'm pretty disappointed as now we're going to see hardly any hardcore games.
"I would withhold judgment until the 17th when MS reveals everything else about Kinect. "
The natal conference just finished.
LOL thats the broadcast of the jungle circus show which just finished.
No, it didn't. This was a private viewing: http://www.e3expo.com/
Look at the right side. They actually changed it, but now it seems Kinect's conference is going to be Tuesday, and today (Monday) will be about the Xbox.
First of all, I just understood your name. Consoles= Con"lol"es. Clever.
Second, motion controls are not going to take over traditional gaming. I do not for a second think a majority will adopt motion controls. As for hardcore games, what makes us so hardcore? Is it the fact that we play complex shooters? RPGs? I mean, I enjoy the Sims, Flower, Rock Band, etc. but apparently these are casual games. I don't care about calling myself a hardcore gamer. I don't care if Move or Natal doesn't have hardcore games. I just want what is appealing to me, and if something appeals to me then I will be interested in purchasing it.
Can anyone name ANY video game that doesn't draw a parallel form something else that they have hear or seen. What is this guy's point, he sound like a crybaby little biotch looking for something to draw hits to his site.
Overall, this article was lame to me.
good read alpha male, you'll have 10 bubbles while we all have 4 lol. very good points man.
well the guy writing the article is talking about the games MS is pairing with the Kinect.
He's not really saying the device itself is imitation, but that the presented games are really just stuff that the Wii already has and not games that really reflect the potential of the device.
The same can be said about the Move, but hey at least Move showed RE5 and Socom can be done. MS just has to show us that a non-casual game can be done on the Kinect.
Sony really didn't show anything exclusive about Move technology. I mean, even the Wii can do the Resident Evil and Socom motion that Sony demonstrated. Would you really notice the difference of the motion technology? This was thrown out just to show hardcore gamers they have Sony's support. I'm still waiting for the games to focus entirely on Move's technology. This was very easy for Sony to do and once they did it it allowed people to ask "Where's Natal's hardcore support?" Smart move by Sony (do I even need to tell you I'm making the pun purposely?) Sony revealed Socom with MOVE a long time ago but I didn't need to see it to know it could be done. I of course wasn't expecting to see complex uses of MOVE all those months ago, but of course, what better way to feed the war than to show a hardcore game with motion support. It was a clever move, regardless of Sony did it intentionally.
Most of what we saw from MOVE focused around those games that no one wants and from what this article is complaining about-- Wii Sports games, that are purposely designed for ease of demonstration purposes. Sony even used that mature fighting game, but again, it doesn't show anything about hardcore games, just outlines, very simply, the technology behind the motion. That's all MS is doing here. Frankly I think the problem is that MS has shown the technology all year and at this point people just want to see the actual retail games.
All year BOTH Move and Natal showed NO innovation.but now it's an issue because of the launch games?
The Natal approach was smart..show the red balls again and again..get bashed by the haters..and watch them huddle by their computer as the news rolls in
Move showed nothing that hasnt been done on the Wii..ever..Sony is just donig something that the Wii can't which is bring better graphics and control..
But Games..ALL have been done on the Wii..
Every demo has been a game from Wii Sports and Wii Sports resort..
They say it appeals to hardcore..but they showed a light gun game..but can they top House of dead Overkill on the Wii?
They use what was a really cool Game Trailers dedut in Socom 4..
But the Wii has been doing shooters forever..
Metroid Prime..like 3 Call of Dutys..Medal of Honer..Conduit..
Hell people sleep on the fact that it was the PS2 using Guncon with the pretty cheesy Redsident Evil: Dead Aim games that tried to innovate the FPS shooter with aiming techniques..
I've said it from day one..Move and Natal need to do exactly what the Wii did to be successful..pack-in a bowling game and some other mini-sports that the family can enjoy in the holidays and show off to other people..and watch the sales pour in.
The author of the article obviously doesnt know much about the games..because there really hasnt been a volleyball game where you set and hit like you would in real life..I honestly think that's a great one..on paper (watch it suck..hard in real life though)
I salute what both Sony and Microsft are doing..but don't sleep on the giant wall of games that the Wii has at your local gamestop..because they have done it all with motion controls ad nauseum..but the differences will ANY of the new motion controllers have a game like Zelda, Mario, or the new Metroid..
That what makes this gen so special..you got so many choices..for fans of ALL systems
well technical the boxing game is just a move game alpha.Then Socom may use both controller or the move with Zipper stating move players had an advantage over DS3 players.But the game I am waiting to hear have Move support is elder scrolls.Cloud got me excited thinking about using it for a game like that.Actully controlling your sword and shield,using voice commands to cast spells.Just got to love the possibilities.And of course any hard core natal game is not going to be ready to show yet.It takes years to make those games and they haven't had that long yet.Actually they probably haven't had six whole months with the final build specs to work with. originally the cam was suppose to do all its own processing when that changed so to would any game counting on using the 360 processor to its fullest.Better games will come,it just takes time to make them.
The author has no idea what's really going on over there.
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examiner.com is suddenly PS3 fanboys favorite site again?
examiner.com for ya. Quick, someone turn the event into a tweet so they can understand what's going on.
Take a look at my article list and you'll see tons of pro-360 coverage.It's an opinion piece folks, everyone has them.
All you did was look at an ad and summarize that MS is imitating the Wii with Kinect.
No mention of video chat. No mention of Star Wars or Disney. No mention of Track and Field. No mention about the yoga and Tai Chi. No mention about what was actually happening on the floor. You just looked at every one else's rumours and decide to paste your own condescending opinion about it.
If I sound bitter, it's because I find it sad how Examiner's abuse of reporting tweets as news stories caused a legit Tweet feed by a journalist who snuck into and took pics of the event to get failed, while this tripe got passed.
It's not about you being pro-Microsoft or pro-Sony. It's about you being a complete and utter tabloidist only looking to stir controversy for the greatest number of views, passing quick judgement for the sake of some short-term hits.
@Parapraxis: Look at the statement that completes the paragraph -
"You just looked at every one else's rumours and decide to paste your own condescending opinion about it."
We all know MS's strategy for appealing to the casuals with their games, and it's obvious they'd imitate the Wii's library of instant hits. The issue is this guy's reporting. I highly doubt this guy went any where near those demos and tried them out. I'm questioning his credibility and urge to stir controversy just for the sake of N4G hits. That's obvious in the omitted details - you'd think some one who was actually there would mention light saber dueling with Darth Vader in Star Wars.
"No mention of video chat. No mention of Star Wars or Disney. No mention of Track and Field. No mention about the yoga and Tai Chi."
MS is imitating the Wii with Kinect, if you don't realize this...wow.
Remember the Wii is a response to the eyetoy and that was Sony's baby though I can say that Nintendo is the most successful and will remain the most success full unless Move has a hardcore shooter/horror game that makes use of all the tech. Kinect seems to smell of fail but I want Kameo to succeed so I might get this thing at somepoint at a much lower price point.
Casual, and Non gamers already got a Wii, and are not going to buy another motion control console while hardcore gamers are not going to touch this crap with a 10 foot pole.
I think it's time for MS fanboys to drop this illusion that Kinetic will offer much in terms of a hardcore experience.
I personally don't see anything wrong with it. There will always be hardcore games so I don't see the casual movement as a threat. The more the merrier. I sure in the future there will be some games that incorporate Natal with the controller but I don't see it being a significant enough addition to warrant the purchase.
Im tired of debating
watch for yourselves. Sony has been reseaching and perfecting this tech for years before the wii came out. and kinect being innovative give me a break.
open your eyes!!
Of course the early games are Wii-like. I am fully expecting these games to exist, they are pretty much games that demonstrate the technology. Even MOVE has it
I'm sure this is not all MS will offer.
Natal's official conference is on the 17th. Hopefully they can make a final impression as it is the last major chance MS has before launch
I know it's not all they will offer, and I know the software will improve greatly. But this is NOT a good first impression.
add to that - when they introduced it, they showed off milo, the super ai that you could have a conversation with. that, turned into river rafting.
not exactly what they led people to believe it was huh?
What do you mean? They completely scrapped Milo in favor of that river rafting game? If that's true then I'm really disappointed.
Milo's potential was pretty big. Imagine Wolfram-Alpha in human form. That could be Milo.
okay im not going to say they scrapped milo for river rafting, i dont know. i dont think milo was ever going to be a game actually, it was a tech demo of what it was capable of, so ms said.
im trying to say that ms led gamers into thinking natal was capable of truly impressive, innovative things. and it looks like they have absolutely nothing to show for it that is even remotely unique or innovative. maybe they have more to show for it, but i doubt it.
Indeed Alpha. But considering how much the media and MS have hyped Natal to be the next big innovative thing... well, this feels remarkably subpar.
I still think the best uses will be in tandem with controllers for games like those in the RTS genre (Halo Wars 2 anyone?). But as it stands, this is a personal "nail in the coffin" for my total NOT caring of motion controls this year, on any system. Until I see something that really is amazingly innovative from Sony or MS on the GAME aspect of these motion controls, that's a resounding MEH from me.


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The DNA Microarray analysis web course developed by the bioinformatics group with the support of the Stem Cell Network is now online. In March 2007 we added a lesson on SNP chip analysis.
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The Heartstream ForeRunner automatic external defibrillator from Agilent Technologies makes it possible for broad groups of emergency first responders to deliver time-critical defibrillation therapy to victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Agilent Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA. Booth 1137.
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Neil Patrick Harris aka Barney chatted up the guest star, saying 'I'm gonna be in Katy Perry this week'.
Katy Perry is the "Mother", said the singer in one of "How I Met Your Mother" three new TV spots. Neil Patrick Harris quickly cut her off for spilling the biggest secret on the show.
Perry is the guest star in February 7 episode called "Honey", playing Zoey's cousin named Honey. According to CBS, Barney gets emotional when he opens up to Honey about his life. Zoey actually arranges a date for Ted with Honey but Ted realizes he has feelings for Zoey, and tells his friends he needs an intervention.
When asked by Rolling Stone whether she could portray the Mother, Perry answered, "I'm not allowed to say. I just did it basically because I'm obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris. He's really sweet, and the cast on the show was really nice to me and forgiving of my bad acting skills."
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They Were Collaborators #534
The Swingle Singers
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- grumpyg said...
I'm sorry, there is something intrinsically sad about this picture. can't put my finger on it, but yeah, sad...
- December 29, 2008 8:14 PM
- Tom Sutpen said...
How is it sad? Not saying you're wrong; just that I don't quite see it.
- December 30, 2008 4:09 PM
- The Real Mike Is Back said...
I'm lucky to own "Place Vendome" with the Swingles and the MJQ. On that cover, they all look so happy, sort of like this picture!
- January 04, 2009 3:09 AM
- Tommy O'C said...
They have their own web site and a lengthy Wikipedia entry that has them still going strong after forty years. I'd be happy, too.
- January 04, 2009 4:12 PM
- The Real Mike Is Back said...
Ward is definitely alive and living in France. There is, however, a second version of them. The first group seen here "retired" in the mid-70s.
- January 08, 2009 1:53 AM
- Chris said...
My second comment on your blog. Again I find something that most people wouldn't be aware of. Unbelievable but I used to listen to this group in high school! Great pic.
- January 31, 2009 12:14 AM


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Three years ago, when the worst financial and economic crisis since the 1930s gripped the global economy, the Financial Times published a series on "the future of capitalism". Now, after a feeble recovery in the high-income countries, it has run a series on "capitalism in crisis". Things seem to be worse. How is this to be explained?
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Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft budgets after Mass Privatization? Evidence from Mongolia
To ascertain the prevalence of soft budgets and to find causes of softness, we surveyed 251 privatized Mongolian enterprises, asking whether state aid was expected when financial difficulties arose. One quarter of the enterprises expected such soft-budget aid, a large proportion of which have central government ownership. We examine causes of soft budgets in addition to state ownership, but the state variable dominates. Results are robust when using either instrumental variables or bivariate probit to unmask unmeasured selection effects. Local government ownership has a much weaker effect than does central ownership.
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It's Sunshine Week and this is the sunshine medium. I wish every blogger would file a FOIA this week or go to town hall and get the salaries and expense accounts of all their local officials to put up online or go after Congress to finally put themselves under the Freedom of Information Act like the rest of government.
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Open-source polling
The Mystery Pollster, Mark Blumenthal, shares the article he wrote for Public Opinion Quarterly on open-source polling and the impact of the internet and blogs on polling.
Back in April, I wrote an amateurish call for open-source polling here.
A few weeks ago, I suggested that publishers, associations, experts and others should vet articles in Wikipedia and in essence create blessed versions of the open-source wealth of knowledge there. At the time, Fred Wilson called it the Red Hat Wikipedia. Now David Weinberger and Wikipedian SJ Klein sing the refrain:
Anyone could certify particular versions of particular articles as reliable. I could, you could, the American Association of Pediatrics could, because this doesn't have to happen on the Wikipedia site. Dozens (hundreds?) of other sites already take Wikipedia's content as their own, under Wikipedia's Creative Commons license. So, why not encourage various authorities (personal or institutional) to create their own seals of Good Wiki Keeping, publishing a virtual slice through Wikipedia….
Not to mention that it would be a perfect example for my book about how knowledge is becoming miscellanized, and reclustered using different organizational principles.
There's regularly wringing of hands over something wrong — or worse, poisoned — at Wikipedia. Where some see a problem, I see an opportunity:
If I were a reference publisher, a library association, a university, a media company, or a foundation, I'd take Wikipedia as raw material and vet entries, perhaps even charging for the service: On demand or on the basis of traffic and links, I'd go in and vet already-written pieces and bless that version of it. Then maybe I'd publish a book from it. Subsequent changes would be unvetted until and unless I chose to or the audience asked me to review them. If a piece just simply isn't up to snuff, I'd put it on a gray list, which I'd also make available not only as a warning (that's seeing the problem again) but as a challenge to Wikipedians to improve the piece and make the grade (that's the opportunity). And if the public sees a piece that is haunted by inaccuracy or, worse, is manipulated for someone's agenda, then they can post a public warning as well. And, of course, I don't have to do all this just with staff. I can also vet Wikipedians or others so that when they review a piece and bless it, so we can consider it blessed. And if there's any money in this, I share it with them. In short, I'd create a superstructure of known, proven editors and researchers not to replace a single thing about Wikipedia today but to add value on top of it.
I agree with Dave Winer that "we need to determine what authority means in the age of Internet scholarship." And I agree with Rex that Wikipedia itself must remain as open as it is today and that we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater when one error or one Wikipedian in need of meds is found. The vast — and dynamic — resource that Wikipedia has become is invaluable and the vast majority of what is in there is quite useful. What we need is mostly a pressure-relief valve for these complaints and reputed scandals that inevitably emerge.
Now that I think of it, this might have been a nice business model for the shrinking Britannica. It might still be.
: UPDATE: Fred Wilson calls this the Redhat version of Wikipedia.
A truly open ad marketplace
Fred Wilson wants a transparent ad marketplace:
But there are some things that aren't yet right about this market.
For one, there really isn't true price transparency. And there isn't true performance transparency….
And as I alluded to in the previous paragraph, it is not yet possible for any publisher to run any ad as long as the price and terms are acceptable to both parties. There are a few places where this happens in the online advertising market, like affiliate networks and paid search (sort of). But there are many more places where the advertisers and publishers are contained in walled gardens.
So, I believe that right now, we have a marketplace, but it's a nascent marketplace.
The thing that gets me so excited, though, is that is so clear where all of this is headed.
Toward massive liquidity
Toward total price and performance transparency
And toward a completely open marketplace where anyone can run anyone's ad campaign.
And in the process, we will build something that is easily a factor of 10 and maybe a factor of 100 of where we are today.
So, let's make it happen.
Well, Amen. This is what I was pushing for starting in March with a proposal for an open-source ad call and there is movement in some quarters on this. We need:
1. Open-source metrics — measuring not just traffic but influence and more — with open reporting.
2. An open-source ad call so any advertiser can put together an ad hoc network of the best sites, so any publisher can join the best ad campaigns, so any network can extend reach with any sites for any campaigns.
3. An auction mechanism to match buyers and sellers.
4. The ability to layer on top of this analystics and trust networks (i.e., specifically approved sites that meet advertisers' needs).
This will be the real Google slayer: an open, transparent, virtually frictionless marketplace where buyer and seller can find and deal with each other openly and where buyers get more value because of greater efficiency and sellers get more value because they sell more than just the words on their pages: They sell their influence, authority, relationships, trust.
Yes, let's build it.
The Customer Evangelists report that Amazon is experimenting with product-information wikis (more here) so we the customers can share and update information on products for sale. Damned smart. The evangelists also make some good suggestions.
: Rob Hof has more.
Bill Burnham has a good post about Google Base, insisting that it will change the world, or at least part of it. He says it's all about RSS feeds into a gigantic XML data base that will extrude all kinds of neat new sausages. I await Part II.
Meanwhile, Olivier Travers says that surely Google will open up Base:
…it's very early to make a call about Google's intent. I'd say they want to give themselves a headstart in terms of surfacing Google Base content across their services (e.g. Local) but they'll probably expose it to the outside world sooner or later. Not doing it seems not only at odds with their roots but more importantly it would leave them vulnerable to a more open joint effort by Microsoft and Yahoo, not to speak of countless smaller competitors.
My issue is: Why not open it up now? Why not publish the data format and API? Why not let us in on their intention? Instead, by playing the mysterious hard-to-get game, Google is mimicking Microsoft, the borg: You'll do what we say because we say so. Once again, Google has succeeded thanks to the very openness of the internet. It should be open, in turn.
Riff raff
Well, Riffs, the new review-anything site, does one thing right that Amazon should have done from the first: You go to Riffs and write a review and it lets you get an RSS feed, which you can put on your own blog.
Still, I agree with Mike Arrington: "Do we need Riffs when everyone seems very happy writing reviews directly on their blogs?"
Fred Wilson tries out Riffs. But he has long pointed out that Gotham Gal has all kinds of reviews already on her blog. The question is: How do I find what she's writing and find what other people are writing about the same topic so I can compare? How can I look for new restaurants in New York and find the ones she has found?
The service I'll pay attention to is the one that lets me find the riffs and reviews (and recipes and whatever else) that people put on their own blogs. That can be a search engine or an aggregator or both that gets people to swarm around tags so they know their stuff will be found. It works inside Flickr and Del.icio.us. It can work outside, in the distributed web.
If I were a VC, I'd be investing in a company that tries to use tags and microformats and social interaction to link together the topics and opinions and information people care about on that distributed web. For that's the company that won't waste effort and expense trying to get people to change their behavior and reverse the natural flow of the web out to the edges — 'come to us and give us your good stuff' — but instead takes advantage of the essence of the web and leaves control out at those edges by saying: 'We know you have good stuff and we're going to help people find it.' The consumer proposition is then clear: This is how you find the good stuff. This will be the real successor to and competitor against Google. Oh, Google could do it, too, but judging by Base, they're not doing that. They're taking control rather than giving it.
Remember Jarvis' First Law: Give people control and we will use it.
: Fred Wilson and I get into a discussion starting in the comments below and continuing on his blog here.
: And Michael Arrington retorts.


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On Feb 14, Will Duquette wrote: > Thanks both, for the answers. Keyword style is what I had in mind. > (I do most of my programming in Tcl/Tk these days, and Scheme > keywords seem the obvious analogy to Tcl-style option arguments.) > > A follow-on question. I gather Scheme has keyword arguments with the > syntax #:mykeyword. In the example > > (append 'horizontal) > > you use an ordinary quoted symbol instead of a keyword symbol, e.g., I should have clarified what Robby wrote later -- that #1 is the historical reason -- so using keywords was not an easy option at the time. So I wrote the above as an example of how it would look like without keyword arguments -- but the same notes apply to using them. > (And while we're on that, why is the keyword prefix "#:" instead of > the shorter ":", as in Common Lisp? (I don't mean to be critical; > I'm just curious.) IIRC, there was no consensus between `:foo' or `foo:', and Mattew preferred to go with something that clearly doesn't break any existing code. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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Five years of beautiful watercolors by artist Catherine Earle.
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Great editorial (Nov. 10). Unfortunately the following paragraph is less than clear — although highly ironic!:
"The Environment Ministry estimates that wind energy could amount to 1.6 billion kilowatts, nearly eight times the current capacity of Japan's power companies. That makes sense to corporations such as Marubeni, Toda, Fuji Heavy Metal and Hitachi, which have been working with researchers at Kyoto University and Kyushu University to develop materials, designs and implementation."
While I'm sure the first sentence makes sense to the companies you mention, can you please clarify for the layman? Is the writer of the editorial really saying that wind power could provide eight times Japan's power requirements!? Or, at the very least, 100 percent?
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Pop diva Mariah Carey married rapper-actor Nick Cannon on April 30, 2008, in a secret ceremony in the Bahamas.
Carey herself confirmed the wedding a week later Wednesday (May 7), according to People.com.
The couple did not make an official statement immediately, but Latina.com broke the news May 1 and E! Online reported a relative of Cannon's confirmed the wedding.
"He called us and told us all about it," Linda Cannon told E!. "We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him."
People.com also reported May 2 that Carey had obtained a marriage license on the island of Eleuthera. And a New York Post report said Carey had wed at her estate off Eleuthera.
The couple had been dating for less than two months, their romance having blossomed after he appeared in her music video Bye Bye. Then Carey was spotted with a large diamond ring on her engagement finger April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
"We really do feel we are soulmates," Carey told People. "I never felt a love like this was in the cards for me."
Carey was born March 27, 1970, in Long Island, New York to Alfred Roy Carey, a Venezuelan aeronautical engineer; and Patricia Carey, a voice coach and opera singer. Has two older siblings: a brother, Morgan, and a sister, Alison.
Carey is known as one of the top "pop divas" of the 1990s, having sold more than eighty million albums worldwide. Her voice spans more than five octaves and she writes most of her own music.
Carey's parents divorced when she was three. She stunned her mother by imitating her operatic singing as early as age two, and was given singing lessons starting at age four. After graduating in 1987 from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, Carey moved to Manhattan where she worked as a waitress, coat check girl, and studied cosmetology while writing songs and actively pursuing a music career at night.
When she was eighteen, Carey and her friend, singer Brenda K. Starr, went to a party hosted by CBS Records. Starr convinced Carey to bring along one of her demo tapes. She intended to give the tape to Columbia's Jerry Greenberg, but Tommy Mottola, the president of Columbia Records (later Sony), intercepted it before she could hand it to Greenberg. After listening to the tape on the way home from the party, Mottola signed Carey immediately and set her to work on her first album, Mariah Carey (1990) which included four No. 1 singles: "Vision of Love," "Love Takes Time," "Some Day," and "I Don't Wanna Cry." Her second album Emotions was released in 1992; the title track became her fifth No. 1 single, and included hits "Can't Let Go" and "Make it Happen."
In March 1992, Carey appeared on MTV's Unplugged. This performance was released as an album and a home video, resulting in another No. 1 single (a cover of The Jacksons' "I'll Be There"). Her next album Music Box (1993) cut back a bit on the lavish studio production techniques heard in her previous albums, and included the No. 1 singles, "Dreamlover" and "Hero." Her November 1994 release Merry Christmas combined traditional Christian hymns with new songs. In 1995 she released Daydream; the first single "Fantasy" debuted at No. 1. It also included collaborations with R&B and hip-hop artists, such as Wu-Tang Clan and Boyz II Men ("One Sweet Day").
Her 1997 album Butterfly included eleven compositions written by Carey, and demonstrated her continued interest in hip-hop and R&B, including the Sean "Puffy" Combs produced "Honey," her twelfth No. 1 hit. #1's (1998) featured her thirteen previous chart-topping singles as well as the Academy Award-nominated "The Prince of Egypt (When You Believe)," a duet with fellow pop diva, Whitney Houston. Carey is also rumored to be pursuing an acting career.
In June 1993, Carey married Mottola in a spectacular ceremony at Manhattan's St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The couple divorced in 1998. Carey then dated Latin singer Luis Miguel for three years, but their relationship reportedly ended in the summer of 2001.
Carey is active in fundraising for The Fresh Air Fund, an independent non-profit agency that has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.6 million disadvantaged New York City children since 1877.
In July 2001, Carey was admitted into a New York-area hospital and put under psychiatric care after suffering what her publicists called a "physical and emotional collapse." Carey had been preparing to promote her upcoming feature film debut, Glitter, and its accompanying soundtrack album, but cancelled all public appearances. The release of Glitter was subsequently pushed back from late August to late September 2001. Carey was released from the hospital after two weeks.
In January 2002, Carey and EMI (the corporate owner of Virgin Records, with whom Carey had signed a reported $80 million contract in April 2001) severed their relationship. Though the film and soundtrack for Glitter failed to generate the desired box office and sales totals, Carey reportedly walked away from Virgin with nearly $50 million as part of her severance agreement. In May of 2002, she signed a deal with Universal Music Group's Island/Def Jam Records. In December 2002, Carey staged a comeback with her eighth album, Charmbracelet, which debuted in third place on the charts. The record's accompanying tour, her first in more than three years, launched in June 2003.
Carey has sold around 160 million albums worldwide. She is the third best-selling female artist of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. With 2008's Touch My Body (from her eleventh studio album E=MC²), Carey passed Elvis Presley to become second only to The Beatles for the most number one hit singles in the U.S.


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I'm not 100% sure. A box came up saying there were five software upgrades available. I know at least one of these was for Flash Player, another for iTunes and another to do with mobile phones. I just clicked yes as I finished working last night. It did not take very long for the upgrades to be downloaded and I heard the machine restart as I went to bed, but didn't check it. This morning the screen was black and would not come to life. I switched it off by holding down the power button, restarted, and now can't get past the white screen/apple symbol page. I am on my wife's computer now.
I am not sure, John. It was definitely 10 point something. Maybe around 10.6? I did purchase and instal newer system a year or two ago but it behaved badly and I reverted to the older system. The computer itself is at least 5 years old but I don't know the purchase date.
I tried restart and held down the ALT key (I think that is same as OPTION?). A hard drive symbol came up called Steve's Mac and I had the mouse cursor on screen for first time, so I clicked on Steve's Mac, but now I just have white screen and Apple symbol again...
Before trying that, I have just found some install disks! I have two that say "For Mac Computers Mac OS X Install Disk 1" and a second called Install Disk 2. I have also found Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD, but I'm pretty sure that's the one that gave me trouble before... Should I try any of these or do what you said above?
I tried as you suggested and black screen with text came up, but iut is not giving me anywhere to type in the code you suggested. There are quite a few lines of text top left of screen. First few read:
PRE enabled
64 bit mode enabled
Darwin Kernel version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 201ll: root:xnu-1505there's a lot more... do you need it al?
Relist: Answer came too late. Can anyone help? John T F doesn't seem to be responding any more. I really need to sort this out...
The last line of the text showing on black screen after following John's instructions is:
[ PCI Configuration begin ]
There is a little white square under this, but nothing happens when I try to type in /sbin/fsck -fy aas John suggested. What can I do?
Should I try installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard Version 10.6.3 from the install disk I have found? If so, how do I do this?
Okay, I've found the questions and answers again. What do you suggest I do now? Should we try installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
Okay. How do I install the start-up? Do I simply re-start the computer and insert the disk?
Okay... it's happening! I'll let you know how it goes...
Hmmm. Not looking too good. Progress bar for install has stopped progressing and has been saying 42 minutes remaining for at least 10 minutes now... Any ideas, or should I give it more time?Hang on... It's moving again... Slowly.
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Dec 27, 2011 at 2:13am UTC
Well, I finally have a workable release *cringe*
Here's the link:
It's pretty simple, I have to controls in the Readme file. Go ahead and try it if it amuses you! Most importantly, please tell me what you think of it!
I apologize in advance for the lag you're garanteed to experience. I'm working on that, promise.
Dec 27, 2011 at 7:52am UTC
I'd say it lacks gameplay. Also, properties of each condition and each tool are not documented. This makes it hard to have any kind of goal, which is a problem.
Dec 27, 2011 at 10:53am UTC
Interesting, but I didn't really get what the game was about and what to do. Just watching a zombie family grow and get diseases?
Dec 27, 2011 at 10:57am UTC
I think it's quite cool, it's more of a simulation though like game of life? There isn't much user interaction at the moment however.
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Dec 27, 2011 at 10:58am UTC
Dec 27, 2011 at 12:02pm UTC
I can't execute that. Please upload the source code.
Dec 27, 2011 at 6:14pm UTC
It does lack gameplay, mostly because it's a simulation of "life". I'm going to add more buttons to click on, mostly to keep tabs on what's currently going on in the game.
I'm also going to add different gameplay options, so that you can mess with birthing rates, zombie appearance rates, plague appearence rates, etc... As for the goal, I'm having trouble with that, the game automatically saves everything that happens, and you'll notice that as you go the overall intelligence goes up, so I figured I could create another program that takes the simulation you just ran and graphs everything about it. (that's originally what the 'Data Hasher' button in the main menu did)
ne555: Mac user or linux? I'll fix up the code and knock off dependencies to windows, should be done fairly quickly.
Dec 27, 2011 at 6:49pm UTC
I got a gameplay idea which may fit your simulation. Maybe instead of just one group of people maybe you could have 2 groups or races. Both of which will eventually compete for resources. Then when resources start getting low, it eventually lead to war and stuff. :P
You'll probably need to introduce money in the game though, like once a person gets to a certain age, he'll start having his/her own income and pay taxes. Then the player can use that money to buy things that can influence the development of the population by adding schools, hospitals, etc. Which helps their civilizations advance.
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Dec 27, 2011 at 6:54pm UTC
Dec 27, 2011 at 7:15pm UTC
You are off to a great start. This can be turned into a city manager type of game with a little bit of work, instead of having people randomly running about you could give them "goals" or needs like going to work, eating and sleeping. Naturally these would be done at designated "buildings" or spots on the board at different "shifts" for each worker.
It would definatly show how devistating a zombie or plauge outbreak could be since people are all crowded into specific areas at certain times of day.
Dec 27, 2011 at 8:11pm UTC
The 'two groups' idea has been voiced before, and it's a good one. The issue would be creating a stable economy (of sorts). I do like the idea of letting the player choose what to develope. And I already have them crowd in the middle (higher birth rate and slower movement), so making certain people corwd into certain places at certain times shouldn't be too complicated. Also, marriage has been proposed as an idea, so I'll probably add that in at some point.
hamsterman: Here's what the tools and diseases do
Green Skull: turns person into a plaguer
Red Skull: turns person into a zombie
All the crosses: nothing, i broke them
Gray skull: kills person
Cursor: selects things
Red disease: zombies, spreads on contact, people with an intelligence of >5 avoid them, those with intelligence of <5 run towards them (weeds out the dumb), zombies move faster (It's why their official designation is 'ZOOMbies')
Green disease: plague, spreads through the air around the infected person (20 pix on all sides), works with intelligence in the same way as zombies
Blue disease: aids, everyone without it avoids them, if they get a cold they die.
Yellow disease: cold, you get it by standing in the 'water' (blue patches) too long, from there it spreads through air (35 pix on all sides), lasts 200 cycles (not very long) then goes away. If you've already had it you cannot get through the air again.
The center of the map is the 'Town', 25x higher birth rate, 2x slower speeds (except for zombies).
The blue patches are water, I've already explained them (colds).
Dec 27, 2011 at 8:39pm UTC
Then when resources start getting low, it eventually lead to war
give them "goals" or needs like going to work
aids, everyone without it avoids them
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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Dec 27, 2011 at 8:40pm UTC
Dec 27, 2011 at 8:42pm UTC
So those with intelligence < 5 are smart enough to avoid AIDS but not zombies? Interesting game though.
Dec 27, 2011 at 8:59pm UTC
...those with intelligence of <5 run towards them (weeds out the dumb)...
I was wondering why it looked like people were trying to get infected. Also why you bothered to average out the intellegence. Do you have any kind of Genetics formula for determining the intellegence of the offspring? I have to tell you the more you write about this the more interested I am in doing my own version. This is a cool project.
Dec 28, 2011 at 10:42pm UTC
naraku9333: ya... good point, it's a work in progress, I'll fix that.
And the average intelligence is actually a debug thing. The formula for intelligence is a random number between [the dumbest parent] and [the smartest parent+1]. the average intelligence readout (which will slowly creep up) told my algorithm worked.
Dec 28, 2011 at 11:04pm UTC
tried downloading it but would not download. entered the ticket and all pops up to download but nothing.
Dec 30, 2011 at 2:53pm UTC
Works, has potential, not worth playing yet. Good luck with the project and all the best.
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Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the world. Most of the attention in treating ischemic heart disease (IHD) is understandably directed toward treating coronary artery disease. However there are other treatable culprits in these patients.
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is widespread in IHD patients, even in the absence of hypertension. It is a strong predictor of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. In one study, the presence of LVH was a stronger predictor of mortality than either multivessel cor-onary disease or impaired LV function.
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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|Metformin Reduces Left Ventricular Mass in Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease:A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study
- Left ventricular mass. [ Time Frame: one year ]We will measure left ventricular mass before and after metformin intervention with cardiac magnetic resonance.
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- They had renal and liver dysfunction, heart failure, or malignancy, or were unable to give informed consent.
- Patients with contraindications to cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) (pacemakers, claustrophobia) were also excluded, as were pregnant or lactating women.
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What would the world be without grandparents? Grandparents are not just biological extensions of our own parents. They are the wiser, more seasoned versions of them. And as such, grandparents forge unique relationships with their grandchildren.
Without the direct responsibility of having to raise, educate, and discipline them, grandparents can spoil their grandchildren. They can break the rules they once created for their own children, and can even get away with little "indiscretions."
They can do this because grandparents' main role is to love and enjoy their grandchildren---the surrogate children they get to spend time with minus the baggage of parenting.
Take my grandma, for instance, who never allowed my mom to stay home from school unless she was running a fever or vomiting. Period. There was so such thing as staying home for a sniffle or a belly ache. Mom was sent to school with coughs, sneezes, wheezes, ear aches, and malaise. With a hearty lunch in her lunchbox (a liverwurst sandwich or a potato and onion omelet, no doubt), and a "Just stick it out, you'll be fine," she was sent on her way.
But thirty years later, when Grandma became the caretaker for my sister and I while my mom worked, her stiff upper lip softened. She began to break her own rules.
In Grandma's world, food meant love, so the more you ate of her multicourse meals, the more you were showered in her endless love. And if you didn't eat what she prepared, she'd go to extremes to make sure you did.
In my family, it's no secret that when my sister crawled under the table to avoid finishing what was on her place, Grandma would crawl under there, too. With bowl and spoon in hand, she'd make sure my sister ate every last morsel, even if it meant bringing out the big guns---bribery.
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"When you're all done, we'll go to the park."
"If you eat everything on your plate, you don't have to go to Kindergarten today."
Yes, you read that last part correctly. On the days my sister was most reluctant to eat her breakfast, which often included oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, or eggs, she was allowed to stay home from school---when she wasn't sick. It was their little secret.
Until the report card came home.
"You kept her home from school 36 times?" My mom shouted incredulously, the paper quivering between her hands.
"It's only Kindergarten," Grandma bargained. "And that kid needs to eat."
In her mind, Grandma's love and concern over a child who, in her opinion, was under-nourished, superseded the need for school.
Since she didn't have the responsibility of answering to teacher phone calls, or sitting in parent-teacher conferences, Grandma had the freedom to express her love in whatever form struck her fancy---even if it included little indiscretions such as bribery or truancy. She coddled. She spoiled. She made judgments which, in hindsight, could have (and should have) warranted an investigation by school authorities. But if ever such an investigation happened, she would have held her head high, looked the official in the eye and said, "It's only Kindergarten. I got a nice piece of steak I can make you. Why don't you come over for lunch?"
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Without grandparents, there'd be less laughter, fewer presents and treats. Without grandparents we'd lose that connection to our ancestry. But most of all, when it comes to raising kids, without grandparents, there would be less rule-breaking.
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