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Greetings Americans in the year 2012,
I'm contacting you today from the not-too-distant future with a warning for the people of your time. A major health care crisis is just around the corner. No, it's not the one you'll hear political candidates jawing about this fall, and you shouldn't listen to them anyway since one is a robot and the other is an alien (which will surprise you in about 18 months when All is Revealed.) Rather, it's the increasing incidence of tech-related ailments that comes from dumping more digital devices into the lives of your aging population.
But first, a little about me.
Using the new "Google Past" feature on my "extended reality" headset from Huawei (made possible by the remarkable advances that have taken place at CERN in the past few years and the generous permission of our benevolent new leaders in Beijing), I'm able to project myself from the current year, 2016, back to your present day, three years before the Greatest Compromise will make most of you full-fledged citizens of Foxconn.
Thanks to a quantum exploit in Eric Mack's Bluetooth headset that most of you won't even be able to conceive of for the next two years, I've taken control of the blogger to draft this warning to people of your time. (Don't worry, he's fine -- I temporarily transferred his consciousness to an old iPhone 5 I have lying around, where, ironically he thinks he's been cruising the Web for iPhone 5 rumors for the past hour.)
This morning, as the sun rises over ironically named Linux Tower in Downtown New Shanghai, I am barely able to muster the energy to compose and translate this message from the combination of thoughtwaves, facial expressions, and pounding motions that have replaced the written language of your time.
There in 2012, you are just beginning to acknowledge the signs of the sad fate that has befallen me here in the future. Although maladies like BlackBerry Thumb and Wii Knees were first discovered in the previous decade, few of you heeded their initial warnings.
More recently, many of your comrades have been plagued with the likes of Touch-Screen Finger, Text Neck, and the dreaded Smartphone Saggy Face. Yet still you mock these disturbing trends or try to cover them over with plastic surgery.
It won't work. Take it from me. Here in the year 2016, two years after the Western World's private and public health insurance programs were consolidated into the Foxconn Funtime Feel Good, Yes Please! health factory #2, my case of "text neck" has devolved into a diagnosis of "Neuromessaging Non-Neck" and my Wii Knees have become indistinguishable from my "Atari Ankles" (what an amazing, but ultimately painful comeback they had.)
What I'm saying is, you might not be able to prevent your entire society from being consumed by the very corporate structure that keeps you fat and happy with shiny devices after the great Microsoft debacle of 2014, but you might be able to prevent those devices from making you so fat that it's impossible to be happy.
To you, Game Controller Claw and Tablet Slouch may seem like conditions to mock, but that's because pointing and laughing are the only things you've learned to use the Internet for so far. But maybe it's time to take the warning seriously.
Start in this election year by urging your lawmakers to lift the ban on human cloning. Your body won't last forever, so urge politicians to get started building your new one now. And while you're at it, ask them to get started on a new body for me. That way, hopefully I'll have it tomorrow.
We've sent signals from the future before to try and warn you, but you dismissed them as "Phantom Vibration Syndrome," so today I'm reaching out directly. But this will likely be your last warning -- the future I describe is very profitable for Foxconn Funtime Feel Good, Yes Please! health factory #2, and they're on to me.


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A total of 2,500 Jews arrived here today. Most of them came from European DP camps while a group of 70 arrived from Turkey aboard a schooner.
Addressing a meeting of settlers in Givat Brenner today, Israeli President Dr. Chaim Weizmann emphasized that Israel is awaiting large-scale immigration of Jews from all parts of the world who will settle on the land. Land, he asserted, is of paramount importance to the country's economy and development.

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Some say that all shampoos and conditioners, regardless of price, are created equally, whether they cost a buck or $80. The logic behind this argument is that, at the core, most shampoos are just detergent gussied up with a bunch of other ingredients that make them more desirable to consumers.
Which makes that pleather knockoff you picked up just as good as the real thing. And the $69.95 Jimmy Choo for H&M gladiator sandal must be the same quality as the $600 Neiman Marcus version.
The truth is that inexpensive hair care products often call upon cheap ingredients, including cocamide MEA, a chemical lathering agent, as well as preservatives, fragrances and parabens — meaning you get what you pay for.
So this week, I've rounded up the best and worst hair-care products; shampoos and conditioners plucked from both the shelves of your local pharmacy and the pricey product boutique at your favorite salon.
Love it! Ookisa Fortifying Shampoo and Replenishing Conditioner
Ookisa's paraben-free, sulfate-free shampoo and color protecting conditioner left my hair soft, smooth and healthy-looking. At $39.95 each, this duo is far from cheap, and while I wish I could say it wasn't worth the dough, it's practically a beauty bargain given the shiny locks left behind.
Leave it: Garnier Fructis Fortifying Cream Conditioner and Shampoo
At less than $4 a bottle, this product is well within most budgets. But despite promising to moisturize hair, it left my locks dry and unruly. Plus, I'm not thrilled with the bargain-basement ingredients listed on the bottles, including parabens and sulfates.
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Rusk's Compressed Formula Technology (CFT) promises to deliver all of the results while requiring 30 to 50 percent less product to get the job done. Freshly colored locks will heartily approve of the Brilliance Grapefruit and Honey Color Protecting Leave-in Cream Conditioner ($13), a vitamin C-packed product that seals in hair color. Another winner is the Full Green Tea and Alfalfa Bodifying Conditioner ($13). The Rusk Sensories collection is available at local salons as well as StyleSource.com.
Leave it: Burt's Bees Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bar
I love Burt, truly I do, but this shampoo bar ($6 at burtsbees.com) fell short. This bar just isn't right for long locks, ladies. Unless you're sporting a G.I. Jane 'do, the Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bar will leave you a tangled mess.
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Further, we do not foresee a material change in the earnings trajectory. We believe GRMs are likely to be slightly better, but could be offset by weaker petchems margins, with earnings driven by capacity growth.
We factor in gas price reform, but a turnaround in production is likely to be slow, in our opinion.
We value the refining/petchem businesses at 6.5x/7.5x EV/Ebitda, in line with or at a slight premium to regional peers. We value the E&P business at R174 per share, and investments at book value.
Upside risks to our call are better refining/petrochemical margins, and higher-than-expected gas prices (reference is $8.4/mmbtu), while downside risks are a delay in gas price increases and a significant increase in RIL JIO capex.
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I don't know where this leaves me. I very much doubt I am ever going to get to 10,000 . . . John
I wonder if the new home page quote"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst". Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst". Henri Cartier-Bressonmake that times ten in the digital times!!!
Does a 400 mp pano count as one or as 25 images?
Does a 400 mp pano count as one or as 25 images?
Is photography as an art form more akin to "performance", or to "composition"? There are clearly more people able to "perform" music, then there are people able to "compose" music. I can imagine that lots of practice allows for better "performance", but I doubt the same holds true for better "composition". In addition: doesn't it also require a certain amount of (life) experience to be able to judge "when & what" is actually worth capturing? And isn't this really what the quote may be referring at?
Mastery of any skill takes practice. When students ask how they can improve their work my no-so-glib answer is, "Take more photographs".We all do photography for different reasons, but if one wants to really master ones art, whatever it is, it takes constant practice.
But you can't do that in a vacuum.I think there's something that needs to be added here, because practice alone is not sufficient.I believe that a necessary component for advancement is critique of one's work.That is, if nobody tells you what you're doing wrong (or what you could do better) then how do you know what to improve?


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What has become one of Cincinnati's most popular annual festivals -- The Appalachian Festival-- began 45 years ago in the basement of Cincinnati's Music Hall as a quaint crafts' exhibition developed by the Cincinnati Junior League.
Today, the Appalachian Festival draws nearly 50,000 people over the three-day event to Coney Island on the shores of the Ohio River.
"Of course, when we first set out, we hoped that the Appalachian Festival would become a Greater Cincinnati tradition and institution," says Sally Brush, one of the Junior League organizers of the first Festival, "but, truthfully, we never dreamed it would reach the size and scope that it is today."
Ms. Brush was one of three Cincinnatians who, in 1969, first proposed the crafts' exhibition idea to a national Junior League conference on Appalachian culture. The goal was to create an event in Cincinnati that would raise awareness of the Appalachian culture, and to have the event ultimately managed by the Appalachian community itself. And, indeed, the Junior League would help establish the Appalachian Community Development Council (ACDA), the organization that took over management of the event in 1975.
The first Junior League Appalachian crafts' exhibition in 1971 was a success -- for months prior to the event organizers had searched the mountain hollows of Appalachia to track down authentic artists and crafters. They also traveled to Nashville to persuade country star Roy Acuff to appear as the headline performer at the first Festival.
"Back then, it was a real challenge to convince authentic mountain crafters to come to Cincinnati for this new Appalachian event," says Diane Smart, who was chairperson for the first and third Junior League Appalachian events. "But after the success of the first year, getting crafters was no problem. We always had more requests for space than space available."
As the event grew in popularity, so too did the need for more space to accommodate visitors. From the basement of Music Hall the event would move over the next two decades to a more spacious Music Hall ballroom, then to the Cincinnati Gardens, the Greater Cincinnati Convention Center and, in the mid-80s, to its present site at Coney Island.
Today, the Appalachian Festival is bigger and better than ever... with more than 130 crafters, dozens of entertainers on three stages, cultural and educational programs and a new mountain life exhibit area.
The Appalachian Festival is sponsored by the Appalachian Community Development Association, a nonprofit organization promoting awareness of and appreciation for Appalachian culture. Proceeds go toward grants to organizations involved in Appalachian life.Show more


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II. Cre Monomer Structure
III. Cre-DNA Recombination Intermediates
IV. References
exhibit displays molecules in the left part of the screen, and
text that addresses structure-function relationships of the
molecules in the right part (below). Use the scrollbar to the
right to scroll through the text of this exhibit.
To evoke renderings of the molecule that illustrate particular
points, click the radio buttons:
click the load PDB buttons,
reset the molecule, use the reset buttons:
prompted, allow your browser to view blocked content. The OMM
now uses the Signed Jmol Applet. No files from this site can
damage your computer. Just check the appropriate box and then
click run.
The integrase
family of DNA recombinases includes over sixty members identified
by sequence similarity. Cre (shown at left) is a bacteriophage P1
member of the integrase family, catalyzing site-specific recombination
between two, 34-base pair lox DNA sequences. In vivo, the function
of Cre recombinase is to circularize the P1 genome during infection
and maintain the genome in the monomeric state for cell division.
Cre-lox recombination has also been extensively employed in in
vivo genetic engineering applications in a variety of organisms.
examining structural features of Cre Recombinase, it may be helpful
to review the mechanism of Cre-induced, lox recombination as shown
in Figure 1, below.
1. The site specific recombination reaction between two, lox DNA molecules
(red and blue),
catalyzed by Cre recombinase.
(a) two Cre monomers bind to each lox site. A conserved, active
site tyrosine (tyr324) from one of
the monomers on each lox DNA molecule cleaves the DNA backbone, forming
a covalent, 3' phosphotyrosine bond, leaving a free, 5' hydroxyl (OH)
on one strand of each DNA double helix. (b) The 5' OH's perform
a nucleophillic attack on the phophotyrosines from the partner DNA
substrates, yielding a Holliday junction intermediate (c).
(c)-(d) A second round of tyr324-catalyzed breakage,
followed by strand joining reactions (nucleophillic attack of free
OH's on phosphotyrosines) resolves the Holliday junction into recombinant
products (e). Note that Cre monomers in the active conformation
(green) and inactive conformation (purple) change sequentially in
the process. Adapted from Figure 11-8, Watson, et al., 2003,
Molecular Biology of the Gene.
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to Cre-DNA Recombination Intermediates, below
monomeric Cre protein shown at left contains amino
terminal, linker, and carboxy
terminal domains.
amino terminal domain comprises 5 alpha
helices. Helices A
and E are involved in Cre recombinase
tetramer formation (see below). Helices
B and D contact the lox DNA major
carboxy terminal domain contains 9 alpha
helices and 3 beta strands. Helix
J, as well as several prominent
loops, are involved
in DNA interactions. Helix
N protrudes from the domain and plays a role in intersubunit
contacts (see below).
carboxy terminal domain harbors the Cre recombinase active
site, consisting of arg173,
and the phosphate-attacking tyr324
(see Figure 1).
to beginning
Let's now explore the structure of intermediates
in the Cre recombinase reaction. At left are shown two Cre monomers,
each bound to a single lox half site of one DNA
molecule. This corresponds to the top half of the schematic
representation of Cre-DNA Intermediate I in Figure
1b. Note that the two monomers are in different conformations,
only one of which is the active
conformation. These conformations are switched as the reaction
progresses (see below and Figure 1).
Several of the helices
mentioned in the previous section as being important in inter-Cre
subunit interaction are positioned to promote association of the two
Helix N from one subunit has one face
buried in a hydrophobic pocket of the other monomer. Helices A
and E from different monomers interact
in a helix-helix interface. Other helices
are positioned to interact with the Cre dimer bound to the partner
lox DNA (not shown).
that the B, D, and J helices from each
monomer are inserted into the major grooves of the lox half sites.
It can be seen that tyr324
from the active site of one monomer is
covalently linked to the DNA through
a 3' phosphate, a result of tyrosine-induced
cleavage of the DNA backbone (see Figure
The cleavage leaves a free
5' OH on one strand of DNA.
The 5' OH will act as a nucleophile,
attacking the phosphotyrosine from the partner DNA substrate (not
shown), joining strands from opposite DNA helices. This yields a Holliday
junction intermediate (see Figure 1b-c).
The structure of the Holliday
junction intermediate in the Cre recombinase reaction is shown at
left (compare to Figure 1c). The
DNA of the the formerly separate lox sites is now joined through one
recombinant strand. Cleavage and joining of the non-recombinant strands
of the Holliday junction will produce fully recombinant DNA helices
(Figure 1d-e).
The Cre subunits are assembled
into a tetramer on the Holliday junction DNA (Figure
1c), with each subunit bound to single lox half site. As
noted above, the two subunits bound to each DNA molecule are in different
conformations, with only one monomer on each DNA partner being active
at one time. The pair of subunits that are active
switches in the sequential one strand at a time mechanism of exchange
(Figure 1).
to beginning
Guo, F., Gopaul,
D. N., van Duyne, G. D.: Structure of Cre recombinase complexed with
DNA in a site-specific recombination synapse. Nature 389:
40-46 (1997).
Gopaul, D. N.,
Guo, F., Van Duyne, G. D.: Structure of the Holliday junction intermediate
in Cre-loxP site-specific recombination. EMBO J 17:
4175-4187 (1998).


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Almost two years ago I realized that Perl 5 has calling conventions just as Parrot does.
That is, just as every Parrot function that passes two integers and a PMC to function and receives a string back looks the same in terms of the registers used, every Perl 5 function that passes two integers and a blessed scalar looks the same in terms of what's on the stack and where.
The same goes for C.
Any Perl function that passes arguments to a C function passes them the same way. The thunking layer that pulls arguments off of Perl's stack and passes them to the C function is the same for all Perl and C functions with the same signatures. The only difference is the C function to call.
Why write all that code more than once? Why compile all that code more than once? Why make people who may not even have compilers installed compile that code when you could have done it when you built Perl and now they never need to have a compiler installed to use pre-compiled C libraries?
One answer (not a good answer, but an answer) is "Because it's difficult to do."
Difficult is not impossible.
I just released P5NCI to the CPAN today. (That link won't work for a couple of hours after I posted it.) I've mentioned it before. I even added a hack about it to Perl Hacks (so I knew I needed to make it work sufficiently to release soon.)
It's not perfect and it's not complete, but it works. I know -- I spent a couple of hours last night and a couple of hours this afternoon wondering at platform-specific differences until I realized that higher-order C isn't entirely portable.
Yet now it works.
Now I need TPF Summer of Code 2006 student to make it perfect. Do you know anyone?
I had wondered why ActiveState could do this with DCOM DLLs in Win32::OLE [cpan.org] but we needed at least Inline or and sometimes XS explicit wrappers on the *nix side.
Thank you!
In P5NCI.pm [cpan.org], for
my $library = P5NCI::find_lib( 'nci_test' );
my $library_path = P5NCI::load_lib( $library_path );
do you perhaps mean
my $library_path = P5NCI::find_lib( 'nci_test' );
my $library = P5NCI::load_lib( $library_path );
The POD doesn't say that 'v' is invali
You're right about the two documenation issues. The first is a typo and the second is true --
v is only valid as the output parameter type.
Adding support for read-only pointers (
void *) is easy. Enforcing it isn't difficult either; Perl SVs can contain plain integers and I think I can toggle the read-only flag on them. I hesitated to add those until I could make writing to struct pointers easy, but as long as people know that that's the trickiest part and it's possible, I can release this in bits and p


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A virtuosic but gimmicky fantasy, Jackson's first novel imagines an alternate present where chemical fallout has made Siamese twins a vocal, politically active subculture. Nora Olney, 28, is a torso-conjoined bohemian "twofer" in San Francisco whose twin, Blanche, has been comatose for 15 years. At ease in neither twofer culture nor the single world, and accustomed to controlling her and Blanche's body fully, Nora decides to have "doctor-assisted individuality surgery," appealing to the shadowy Unity Foundation for surgical help—even though its legal status is uncertain at best, and it will mean Blanche's death. Arriving in London and threading through the thicket of misdirection that the foundation uses for cover, Nora's reality warps: inanimate objects talk; she throws things unintentionally. As she moves closer to the surgery, Nora must contemplate the possibility that Blanche is trying to communicate with her. Jackson—author of a short story collection; a "work" (titled Skin ) composed solely of tattoos on the bodies of willing participants; and the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl —gives equal time to the twins' eccentric upbringing in Too Bad, Nev., and the (often humorous) ephemera that Nora collects for her scrapbook, "The Siamese Reference Manual." Jackson's prose is nothing short of dazzling, but it's still not enough to give real tension to her oddball plot. (July 3)
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Singapore: Gold edged up on Thursday and held near its highest in a week, supported by signs of a recovery in the Eurozone and by expectations the US dollar could lose its footing after the Federal Reserve decided to keep buying bonds.
Previous rounds of asset purchases by the Fed drove down interest rates and weakened the greenback, spurring rallies in global stocks and prompting investors to turn to gold as a hedge against inflation.
Gold had risen 0.2 per cent to $1,680.06 (Dh6,170.86) an ounce by 0630 GMT. It hit a near one-week peak of $1,683.39 on Wednesday, although that was still well below a record of around $1,920 marked in September 2011.
"The Fed will maintain its bond-buying policy and we see economic conditions in the Eurozone improving slightly. I think we can see more weakness in the US dollar and as a result we may see gold going up a bit more," said Joyce Liu, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.
US gold was little changed at $1,679.50 an ounce.
Gold is still facing strong resistance at $1,700, which it failed to breach despite repeated attempts earlier in the month, Liu and other analysts have said.
Technical analysis suggested spot gold could drop to $1,659-$1,664 range during the day, as it has completed a rebound from Monday's low of $1,651.93, said Reuters market analyst Wang Tao.


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Samplitude 11.5 Producer is a professional digital audio workstation that provides everything you need to produce music on your PC: a multi-track recorder, mixer, MIDI and audio editors, software instruments, quality effects and a whole lot more.
And MAGIX have extended this version with some very interesting and worthwhile features.
One immediate benefit comes in the new workspaces, for instance, which help to define the Samplitude interface. So if you're a novice, say, you might choose the "Easy" workspace, which provides one-click access to the core five stages of music production: recording, editing, mixing, mastering and export. It's still not simple, but at least you can work your way through the process without having to spend too much time browsing the huge menus.
Alternatively, the optimised recording workspace makes it easier to start recording right away, with the solo or integrated MR-64 multi-track recorder. If you need an extra instrument or two, then the new Automatic Accompaniment option can add it (you get to choose the tempo and music style so you can be sure it'll blend it).
If you're looking for software instruments then there are plenty on offer here. Revolta 2 is a versatile synth; Robota should satisfy your drum machine needs; and there are some impressive guitar sounds and effects. And new instruments this time around include an excellent saxophone in Vita Saxophonia, a quality set of keyboard sounds (Vita Century Keys), and Vita Jazz Drums, which despite the name could work well in many other musical genres.
Whatever you're recording, Samplitude 11.5's enhanced FX rack makes it easier to access integrated effects like the 10-band equaliser, the compressor, enhancer, reverb, delay or more. But if that's not enough then the mixer can apply up to four VST and DirectX effects per track (and you've 64 audio and MIDI tracks in total) so there's plenty of scope for getting inventive.
The expanded Mastering Suite can then apply its own parametric 4-band equaliser, compressor, limiter and stereo FX modules to produce the precise effect you need. And when the process is finally complete, your masterpiece can be saved as WAV or MP3 files, uploaded and shares at SoundCloud, or burned to disc with the built-in CD mastering tools.
Samplitude 11.5 has plenty of powerful features, but uncovering these may take a little while. The busy interface can feel a little intimidating, and takes some time to master.
Still, MAGIX have been working to improve things, and this version does include some worthwhile usability improvements which should help you to find your way around.
As we've mentioned, the new workspace options allow you to choose an interface setup that's more tailored to whatever you're trying to do. And the default Easy workspace, which MAGIX call "Step-by-step mode", does make it a little more straightforward for Samplitude newbies to find the options they need.
If you're still out of luck, though, you can always turn to the sizeable and enhanced Help file, a PDF manual, and twice the number of video tutorials as before.
And best of all is a new search box, integrated into the toolbar. Type "flanger" here, say, and you'll see all matching references within the program and the documentation. So if you've forgotten that the function you need is at Track > More > Track Effects > MAGIX Plugins > Flanger, for instance, it doesn't matter – just choose it from the list and the relevant dialog box will appear.
It's still not for novices, then, but Samplitude 11.5 remains a powerful and comprehensive music production tool, which can be easily extended via VST, ReWire and DirectX plugins, and always delivers great sound quality.


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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Many in the theater community are taking to social media, upset about a recent decision to combine two part-time jobs.
The Thalian Association decided to combine two part-time jobs: the Artistic Director who handles main stage productions and the Artistic Director who handles children's theater productions. The Thalian Association will combine these positions to create one full-time position. A nationwide search for the new position is now underway.
Those in the theater community created a Facebook page showing their support for both artistic directors Tom Briggs and Jason Aycock. They are also signing a letter asking the Thalian Association board to put a hold on hiring a new artistic director and opening board membership to those in the theater community. To read the letter, click here: http://bit.ly/1jnlFys
Comments on the Facebook page ask board members to change their mind and keep both men, who many argue are irreplaceable on the job. As of Monday afternoon it had more than 600 likes. Some argued the roles are different and should not be combined.
"I was surprised, it was just personally, I feel that those are two very different positions with very different skills sets," said Troy Rudeseal.
With the two jobs being combined into one, and a search for the new position underway, it means either Tom Briggs or Jason Aycock, or both, will have to go.
"It's a hard job and it's a thankless job and to just toss these guys aside is just cold," said Rudeseal.
"I was stunned and very emotional because both Tom and Jason mean the world to our family," said Tracey Torello. She said her daughters grew up doing community theater with both directors.
"They teach them to be responsible, to work hard, and they also let them know that they believe in them and they can do things," said Torello. "I think to either lose Tom or Jason would be a huge loss to the community, you can't say that you don't need them both, they both have been contributors on so many levels."
While many any the theater community are not happy about the change, the President of the Thalian Association Board says the change is necessary because the association is growing.
Danny Brock argued they are trying to do more community outreach and a full-time director is necessary.
"It's because of the community outreach we are now doing, we are doing Wilmington Boys and Girls outreach, we are doing outreach in our schools," said Brock. "At least we would have one person coordinating all of these jobs instead of two people coordinating them in two different areas."
"This is really good news because we have grown so much of the past several years, in fact this past year we've grown really a lot, so the fact that we've moved to a full time director I think is really exciting news," he explained during another point of the interview.
He says both Briggs and Aycock have been encouraged to apply for the new position.
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Department store operator Macy's Inc. says its third-quarter results swung to a loss as results were weighed down by charges related to a consolidation of several divisions. It is also confronting a slowdown in consumers spending.
The Cincinnati-based chain said Wednesday that it lost $44 million, or 10 cents per share, in the quarter. That compares with a profit of $33 million, or 8 cents per share, a year ago.
The company says sales fell to $5.49 billion from $5.9 billion a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a loss of 19 cents on $5.49 billion in sales.
The company reaffirmed earnings guidance for 2008 to be in the range of $1.30 to $1.50 per share, and $1.10 to $1.30 per share in the fourth quarter.
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Some Woodbury residents and businesses experienced a power outage this morning.
According to Xcel Energy, 1,188 customers between western Woodbury and eastern Maplewood were without power at 5:47 a.m. The outage was expected to last until 9:42 a.m., according to the utility.
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Since its founding and first grant of $125 in 1955, the Rasmuson Foundation has supported Alaskan non-profit organizations in the pursuit of their goals, with particular emphasis on organizations that demonstrate strong leadership, clarity of purpose, and cautious use of resources. The vision and values established by Elmer Rasmuson continue to guide the Foundation today. The Foundation awards approximately $20 million annually to help improve the quality of life in Alaska.
The Foundation Board, with its statewide perspective and expertise, focuses on requests that allow an organization to become more efficient and effective in improving the quality of life for Alaskans. The Board looks favorably on organizations which demonstrate broad community support, superior fiscal management, and matching project support. The Foundation recognizes the long-term benefit of developing partnerships between funding agencies and strives to leverage funding from multiple sources.
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On Basilisk Station is the first book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. It's available for free at the Baen webshop.
There is a plot in there somewhere... something about a young captain being screwed over by a military lousy with aristocratic nepotism, being sent to a neglected station, actually doing the navy's job, and uncovering some kind of plot... but I found it hard to follow.
The two main problems I had were the infodumps and the viewpoint changes.
The long and sometimes awkwardly placed infodumps about technology and history seemed to go into way, way more detail than was required for the story, leaving me with the impression that David Weber rather wanted to write something like an RPG sourcebook. (For example during a spaceship "chase" not only explaining the neccessary information about their FTL travel, but the complete history of its development.)
I did not keep count of viewpoint characters, but wouldn't be surprised if it had been over a dozen. The really confusing part was that often a change of viewpoint and location would not be signalled in any way; one paragraph from the viewpoint of Our Hero on her ship might be followed by one from the viewpoint of an antagonist on a different ship, which would only become clear a line or two after it happened, things like that. (I can't tell if that's just a problem with the ebook edition, or if it was really written that way.)
I appreciate that there is a female protagonist, and that she isn't the only one in the military (competent women being treated as miraculous because women aren't expected to be competent is really tiresome), but had trouble connecting with her.
I guess to enjoy this you need a higher interest in weapons and spaceship specs, military hierarchy, and worldbuilding details even when they interrupt scenes than I have.
If you mean what I think you mean, that was the most gratuitous infodump in the book in my opinion, too, or, more precisely, the part where it explained in detail the history of the development of FTL travel, rather than sticking to the details relevant to the "present".
One that stuck out for poor placement was when tension was built up for that meeting of Honor and Hauptmann, they sit down - and before the actual talk starts, we get three bloody pages about how the aristocracy of Manticore developed. I think that would have been a lot better placed a bit earlier.
And, yeah, didn't like McKeon, either. I dunno, for a stretch there, most that wasn't infodumps was either him gnashing his teeth about not talking to Honor, or Honor bemoaning the fact that he didn't talk to her...
At least the book didn't end with the two of them marrying. I was afraid of that for a while there.
The particular (and only) infodump that threw me squarely out of the action was when he interrupted A HUGE SPACE COMBAT SEQUENCE to tell us how starship acceleration and transition to hyperspace work. Necessary info for the battle scene in question but lousily executed.
(I have plenty of "interest in weapons and spaceship specs, military hierarchy, and worldbuilding details", but I snark a lot when they're crowbarred in badly!)
I loathed Harrington's second-in-command (McKeon?) in that book. He's unsuitable for command and I was really annoyed that he was rewarded with captaincy of his own ship at the end, having proved that he could barely form a working relationship with a superior officer. He should have been bumped down a few ranks until he got over his attitude problem.
Everyone in the book, except for one character, was literally incredibly open and un-self-deluded about their personal problems, and very keen not to resent Harrington, who was bordering on the Sueish with how she handled her personnel.


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Caramelized Apple Tarts Recipe
This recipe cleverly dresses up frozen puff pastry and a no-bake cheesecake mix. Guests will be delighted to be offered their own individual tarts! —Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 1 package (17.3 ounces) frozen puff pastry, thawed
- 1 package (11.1 ounces) no-bake cheesecake mix
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 5 medium apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1. Unfold pastry sheets on a lightly floured surface. Cut into eight 4-in. circles. Place on greased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- 2. Prepare cheesecake filling according to package directions; set aside. (Save packet of crust crumbs for another use.)
- 3. In a large skillet, melt butter and brown sugar over medium heat; stir in cinnamon. Add half of the apples; cook and stir for 10 minutes or until tender.
- 4. Remove with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Repeat with remaining apples. Drain cooking juices, reserving 1/3 cup in the skillet; discard remaining juices. Add cream to skillet; cook and stir for 2 minutes.
- 5. Split each pastry in half horizontally. Top each with 2 heaping tablespoons of cheesecake filling. Top with apple slices and drizzle with caramel sauce. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 16 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 373 calories, 17g fat (7g saturated fat), 24mg cholesterol, 330mg sodium, 52g carbohydrate (29g sugars, 3g fiber), 5g protein.
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In addition to the new Disgaea game, NIS plans to release seven games during its upcoming fiscal year, ending on March 31st 2011. Out of those eight games, six will be original titles. Going ahead, the company will carefully select games which will be published in North America by NIS America. The focus will apparently be on PlayStation 3-based software. Furthermore, NIS plans to rebuild and strengthen its presence in the mobile gaming market.
NIS singled out declining quality and problems pertaining to sales estimates as key factors contributing to its lower than expected performance during the current fiscal year. Instead of the projected 1.79 billion yen ($19.92 million USD), the company reported sales of 1.13 billion yen ($12.57 million USD). Instead of the estimated net profit of 12 million yen ($133,500 USD), NIS suffered a loss of 376 million yen ($4.18 million USD).
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Ahead of the national anti-bullying week next month, Activision will be giving away copies of the game on the bullying website, as well as through its letter and via its MySpace page.
"Bullying UK is proud to be working alongside Activision, a world-renowned entertainment publisher, to highlight Spider-Man: Friend or Foe and our campaign," Bullying UK's John Carnell stated.
"Partnerships like this allow us to reach out to more young people and draw them into a world where bullying is unacceptable and with an iconic character like Spider-Man the message couldn't be clearer."


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MONESSEN – Luke Doptis isn't content with where the Monessen High School boys basketball team is right now.
But he won't deny that things are a lot more enjoyable than they used to be, that's for sure.
Doptis led Monessen with 19 points during Tuesday's 69-35 rout of Carmichaels, the Greyhounds' fourth straight win – following a 1-8 start – all over section opponents, all blowouts.
"We dug ourselves a hole," Doptis said. "But we're working our way out of it. We're not completely where we want to be. Our goal is to win section, get a high seed in the playoffs and we'll go from there."
Judging by Tuesday night's game, which Monessen led by 40 less than two minutes into the second half, that seems like a fairly reasonable goal.
Especially considering Monessen (4-0, 5-8) has won its four Section 3-A games by an average of 41 points. Oh, and the Greyhounds have been to the WPIAL playoffs a record 31 consecutive times.
On Tuesday, Monessen set out to limit Brandon Lawless, who scored a career-high 39 points during a 76-50 win over Geibel last Friday.
Monessen wanted to hold Lawless to less than 10 points. Though Lawless finished with 12, they all came in the second half.
"We really wanted to focus on him, shut him down," Doptis said. "We did."
Monessen forced Carmichaels into 24 turnovers, 14 of those coming in the first half. Justice Rawlins had a team-high 10 steals, and Clintell Gillaspie added eight.
"I thought our defense created everything we got done," Monessen coach Joe Salvino said.
The Greyhounds swarmed Carmichaels with a full-court press while holding a 9-7 lead three minutes into the first quarter.
What happened next was a 19-0 run that pushed Monessen in front, 28-7, following a 3-pointer from Doptis, his third in less than nine minutes.
"Our first eight games, defense was terrible," said Gillaspie, who contributed 14 points, 11 after halftime. "We just kept picking it up. We just kept saying, 'Defense, defense, pressure, pressure.' "
And tonight?
"We rushed them, full-court press," Gillaspie added. "They couldn't get the ball up the court."
Which is awful similar to what happened to Monessen during losses to Chartiers Valley, Franklin Regional, Norwin and Jeannette, among others.
The Greyhounds struggled to put together a complete game and, at times, lacked the effort Salvino wanted.
They also were unable to stop anybody, with all but one of those eight teams scoring 65 or more points. (The Greyhounds' only win was a forfeit over Imani Christian.)
"We weren't communicating at all, not switching on picks," Gillaspie said. "Nothing."
It was an ugly stretch, to be sure, though one Salvino knows will help his team come playoff time. Now, they're working on making that win-loss column look a bit more palatable.
"We've build a little bit of confidence," Salvino said, "and the players are starting to understand what I want ... what needs to be done."
Tyler Yuille finished with 11 points and 12 rebounds, while Rawlins added 10 boards. Freshman Nicademus Payne had a strong game with 10 points and six rebounds. Besides Lawless, Josh Mundell finished with eight points for Carmichaels (2-2, 11-3).
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Late last week I got an urgent phone call from a close college friend. She was in LA on her move back from Colombia leaving that evening on her way to DC for work. Her continent-crossing pittie, Baby, is (obvs) too big for clothes for the pocket-sized pups but she was worried about the warm-weather doggie getting too chilly and wanted to pick up a sweatshirt for the trip. She didn't have the time to order one of these fun hoodies I found so I immediately thought of the best store to send her to — The D.O.G. Boutique (that's the dee-oh-gee, for those in the know).
A few hours later, I got a happy text from her when she was sitting in the airport – hooray! Not only was the saleswoman super sweet, they found an awesome pink hoodie at this West Hollywood outpost. D.O.G.'s online store doesn't even hit half of their cool products so, if you're in LA, definitely check out this store!


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How curbing clicking may boost benefits of EMRs
"Clicking takes much longer than flipping." And that, says Lyle Berkowitz, MD, is why electronic medical records should be redesigned to be more efficient.
EMR systems do not take full advantage of the organizational functionalities, search proficiencies, or visual capabilities of computers, says Dr. Berkowitz, clinical associate professor of medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and medical director of clinical information systems, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, Chicago. (Dr. Berkowitz spoke about EMR inefficiencies at the Physicians' IT Symposium at the 2008 Healthcare Information and Management Society conference, in February.)
Doctors are comfortable with paper charts, Dr. Berkowitz explains, because they can be reviewed so easily. Lab results, for instance, are often printed and clipped to a paper chart, so the physician can quickly review the results and look at the last note or compare them to old results by simply flipping through a few pages. "A lot of analysis and scanning is going on during this process, but it is all at virtual speed in the physician's brain," he says. The physician finishes the review by initialing the front page of the results, writing or stamping an interpretation on it, and putting it into an outbox for an assistant to complete and file.
"In a typical EMR scenario, however, the same workflow may take much longer because each step requires extra clicks and scrolling," Dr. Berkowitz continues. The physician must first execute a series of clicks to reach the results section in his or her EMR. Then he or she may have to click several more times if the results for various tests are grouped separately for the same patient. And if the results section does not clarify whether the tests are finished or pending, the physician will have to go through another series of clicks to verify that all orders have been completed, Dr. Berkowitz says. Additional clicks may be necessary to access a flow sheet that allows the physician to view past lab results and compare them with current results. Then the physician must document what he or she will tell the patient and the method of notification by clicking to access another page and typing in the information. "Finally, even more clicks are added if the physician decides to write something in an electronic sticky note so the information is readily available for the next patient visit," he adds.
"This is quite simply a waste of our time," Dr. Berkowitz says. This workflow process may even hurt quality, he continues, since a physician's analytical thought process will be interrupted by the effort of repeatedly clicking to access information from different areas of the EMR.
So how to solve this problem?
"Create a system that gives the physician everything they need in one place and that emulates the thought flow they use to make a decision," Dr. Berkowitz says. The EMR system should have a "results dashboard," which would allow a physician to immediately visualize lab results, prioritize them, and act on them. The physician should be able to quickly clarify which test results are completed for each patient and which are pending, perhaps by holding a cursor over a designated area or having a color-coded icon appear next to the patient's name, Dr. Berkowitz explains. A second color-coded icon could represent whether results are normal or have minor or critical abnormalities.
EMR systems could also help prioritize lab data by comparing the test results to normal ranges or weighting certain tests as more important than others, or both, he says. For example, a hemoglobin abnormality would be weighted as more important than a chloride abnormality. "The result is that the EMR has helped the physician easily see how to prioritize the results—all with no extra clicks," Dr. Berkowitz says.
Furthermore, a physician should be able to click on a patient's name to see—all at once—current and old test results, current medications and diagnoses, and perhaps even a summary of the most recent office visit. Rather than appearing as numbers, the test results might appear in graphical format, making it easier to put such data on one easily accessible page, Dr. Berkowitz says. This expanded results dashboard, he continues, would also allow the physician to sign off on lab results, choose the appropriate interpretation (normal or abnormal results), and make a notation of the next step, such as notifying the patient, changing a medication, or scheduling an appointment. "And, of course, performing any of these action items creates automatic documentation that is recorded in the chart," he adds.
So how to get there?
Vendors need to view workflows not as individual tasks, but as a series of related tasks combined with thought processes that allow users to interpret data, draw conclusions, and make decisions, Dr. Berkowitz says. And they need to pay more attention to the wants, needs, and frustrations of their current clients, rather than focusing on the requests of potential customers who use paper-based systems.
Also shaping the future of EMRs are organizations such as the nonprofit Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program, of which Dr. Berkowitz is program director. The organization is "creating prototypes of new user interfaces to help stimulate vendors and others who are developing the EMR systems of the future," he says.
The end result, Dr. Berkowitz concludes, may be an EMR that looks very different from current paper or electronic systems. "This may be scary for vendors used to showing physicians something that looks familiar," he says, "but vendors will be much more successful if they can move away from the paper-based paradigm and take real advantage of computers."
Cerner to market Wyndgate blood management systems
Wyndgate Technologies, a division of Global Med Technologies, has formed a strategic alliance with Cerner Corp. under which Cerner will market Wyndgate's blood management systems.
Under the arrangement, Cerner will interface Wyndgate's blood management software modules with its Millennium suite of laboratory information systems.
Wyndgate's products and services are used to manage more than 27 percent of the U.S. blood supply, the company reports.
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Misys and Allscripts to merge
Misys Healthcare Systems has announced plans to merge with Allscripts, LLC. Misys will own a majority of the combined company, and Allscripts executives will run the operation.
The newly formed company, called Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, will support and maintain all existing Misys and Allscripts products. It will be based in Chicago. The combined company will have a client base of approximately 150,000 U.S. physicians.
Completion of the transaction is based on shareholder approval and other conditions.
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Application for monitoring client service levels
Netlims NJ, LLC, has launched AutoCRM, a customer relationship management application that allows reference laboratories to proactively monitor their client service levels for every account.
AutoCRM, which is integrated with Netlims' AutoLims product suite, electronically tracks client requests and complaints, as well as progress for each task, and provides client and employee centric displays. The application prioritizes and categorizes tasks, which are assigned to users with a due date and filters for work lists. General messages promote the sharing of information in client services, and users can perform a text search to locate items.
Netlims NJ, LLC, Circle No. 190
Fletcher-Flora marketing connectivity software
Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems has released its FFlex eLink clinical instrument connectivity software for small physician office laboratories.
FFlex eLink is designed to connect a laboratory's clinical instruments and an electronic medical records system, practice management system, or other host system. The software not only accepts and transmits data, but also provides an interface that allows users to define tests and reference ranges, approve or reject results, and monitor real-time instrument logs.
Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems,
Circle No. 191
Flash drive tool to transfer dictation software licenses
Royal Philips Electronics is offering a flash drive tool that allows users of its dictation software to upload their software licenses to any computer.
Users insert the tool, called USB Smart Key, into a USB port on a computer. The key continuously indicates license status via LED color coding. The key also contains a 30-day crash recovery license.
Royal Philips is packaging the tool with its SpeechExec Pro Dictate, SpeechExec Pro Transcribe, and Transcribe software.
Royal Philips Electronics, Circle No. 192
MCN releases new version of policy management system
MCN Healthcare has launched version 2.0 of its Ellucid Policy Manager policy management system.
Policy Manager version 2.0 offers a redesigned user interface, streamlined system for defining approval processes, advanced reporting features, new authentication tools, and detailed user logs.
Ellucid Policy Manager is an electronic repository of policies and procedures. The system automates the process of reviewing, revising, approving, and archiving health care policies and procedures. Users with online access can review, edit, share, and approve documents from virtually any location.
Policy Manager is a hosted solution, with MCN providing the application support and maintenance.
MCN Healthcare, Circle No. 193
Mediware Information Systems has licensed its HCLL transfusion blood management software to the following entities:
Mediware Information Systems,
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A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta, NY, has contracted to implement McKesson's Horizon Clinicals suite of health care information technology solutions to create electronic health records for its inpatient and outpatient business.
McKesson Corp., Circle No. 195
Ontario, Canada-based Lakeridge Health, Rouge Valley Health System, Scarborough Hospital, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have selected mTuitive's xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario's 2008–2009 CAP/CS aligned data standards for pathology reporting. The standards were developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists Cancer Committee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and American Joint Committee on Cancer.
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Vachette Pathology has signed a contract for its practice management services with Williamsport (Pa.) Pathology Associates.
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Patti Hart, the Yahoo director who led the efforts to hire CEO Scott Thompson, has agreed to not seek re-election to the company's board in the wake of the scandal over Thompson's botched academic record, All Things Digital reported Tuesday.
Hart is also the CEO of International Game Technology, which makes electronic gaming equipment, and sources told All Things D that her company's board asked her to remove herself from the Yahoo scandal to focus on the company she actually runs.
Hart and Thompson first came under scrutiny last week, when activist investor and owner of Third Point Capital hedge fund Daniel Loeb raised questions about Thompson's academic career and the process Hart and her committee used to hire Thompson as Yahoo's CEO, according to the Washington Post.
More from GlobalPost: Yahoo shareholder accuses CEO Scott Thompson of exaggerating academic credentials, calls for sacking
Loeb, whose company owns a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo, found out that Thompson had listed a fake degree in computer science in his biography, when in fact he only an accounting degree from Stonehill, a Massachusetts college, the International Business Times reported.
Hart also fudged her credentials, according to the IBT: her biography states that she "holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and economics from Illinois State University," when in fact she has a degree in business administration.
Thompson came forward to apologize yesterday via an e-mail to Yahoo's employees, WebPro News reported.
"As I told you on Friday, the board is reviewing the issue and I will provide whatever they need from me," wrote Thompson, who has yet to be dismissed. "In the meantime, I want you to know how deeply I regret how this issue has affected the company and all of you."
Some have described Thompson's reaction to the scandal as him being "defiant over the issue, and as blaming Loeb for conducting a personal vendetta," All Things D reported.
More from GlobalPost: Yahoo board: Four directors leave in shakeup
It remains unclear if any other Yahoo executives or members of the tech company's board will resign or be dismissed, according to WebPro, though many believe Thompson will soon be fired.
"Sentiment from employees is unanimous that [Thompson] must go," a Yahoo employee told All Things D. "He clearly knew and lied for years; and his handling since exposed has been unacceptable."
On Monday, Third Point called on both of Yahoo's directors to quit within five days, as well as demanded to see all documents that led to Thompson's recruitment from eBay, where he was president of PayPal before working for Yahoo, according to the International Business Times.
Yahoo declined to comment on Hart's resignation.
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Drake- Fall For Your Type Lyrics
Can I, can I save you from you (yeah)
'Cause you know there's something
Missing and that champagne you've
Been sipping not suppose to make you
Different all the time.
It's starting to feel like the wrong thing
To do (yeah); 'Cause with all that recognition
It gets hard for you to listen to the things
That I must say to make you mine.
But live girl, have some fun girl, we'll be fine
Trying to convince myself I found one
Making a mistake I never learned from!
I swear, I always fall for your type (yeah)
For your type.
Tell me why, I always fall for your type (ohhohh)
For your type.
I just can't explain this shit at all!
I just can't explain this shit at all!
I just can't explain this shit at all!
I just can't explain this shit at all!
Never believed in people like you!
'Cause who am I to judge you on the past, girl
I bet there's a reason for it all
You say that you're nothing like the last girl
I just pray that you don't let me down right now
But it's too late 'cause I'm already yours
You just gotta promise me hearts won't break
And end up like before
Dress hangin' off your shoulder, barely sober
Telling me how you're moving away and starting over
Girl, quit playin' you just drunk, you just saying shit
And you dance, dance like how like ballet and shit
Oh, wait, no I get it girl I'm wit it
I been down this road before and yeah I skid it
But forget it, damn, damn
I wonder why I never learned my lesson
It's feeling like its second chance and it's the first impression
And I heard there's nothing new except for someone new
But how you supposed to find the one when anyone don't come with you
Talking to myself but I never listen
'Cause, man, it's been a while and I swear that this ones different
That's why I'ma take you anywhere you wanna go
Let you meet my friends so they can lecture me again
About how reckless I have been
And I'm slowly running out of all the time that I invested
Making all the same mistakes
And I'm just trying to correct it, and I fall
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RALEIGH, N.C. - In the run up to Memorial Day, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has been all over the Internet.
There is an Edwards video on YouTube.com asking people to forego their usual picnics and call for withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq. On an Edwards campaign blog called www.SupportTheTroopsEndTheWar.com, there is a map of Memorial Day activities opposing the war.
There are similar messages by Edwards - or his supporters - on political blogs such as The Daily Kos, and social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and dozens of other sites.
The 2008 presidential election has made a giant shift into the Internet age, with many of the campaigns devoting large amounts of time and money to reaching voters through cyberspace. All of the major presidential candidates have major Internet outreach programs. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for example, announced their candidacies on the Web.
But no one has been a more aggressive e-candidate than Edwards, the former North Carolina senator.
Edwards has used the Internet to help keep his name in front of Democratic Party activists as he seeks to stay competitive with frontrunners Clinton and Obama.
The Internet has also been a major source of campaign contributions. Edwards officials estimate they raised $3.3 million from 37,000 donors online during the first three months of the year.
Even Republicans have taken notice of the reach and sophistication of the Edwards Internet operation.
"I've been really, really impressed with John Edwards and the stuff he is trying to do," said David All, a Republican Web consultant in Washington. "He's the most willing to be at the tip of the spear of technology. It has really worked for him."
But the Internet has been a two-edged sword for Edwards. Two Edwards staff bloggers resigned earlier this year when their writings critical of the Catholic Church became an issue. And a frequently visited video on YouTube features a nearly two-minute long video of Edwards combing his hair before a TV appearance.
Still, the Web remains a powerful tool for reaching voters.
The number of people who get most of their political information from the Internet doubled between 2002 and 2006, according a survey by the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank. The younger the age group, the heavier the use of the Internet for politics, the study found.
As he retooled his campaign for the 2008 run, Edwards sought to engage grassroots Democrats through his ardent opposition to the war in Iraq, his emphasis on battling poverty and his advocacy on behalf of labor unions. Edwards had an active Internet outreach during his 2004 presidential run, but nothing like the current effort.
In many ways, Edwards has borrowed - and built upon - the efforts of former presidential candidate and opponent Howard Dean, who pioneered in the use of the Internet in 2004.
Edwards' campaign staff, based in Chapel Hill, is staffed by several former Dean Internet whizzes, including Matthew Gross and Ben Brandzel, and he recently added Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager.
"This is an extension of our campaign, and the goal of the campaign is to change America," said Brandzel, Edwards' director of online communications, who was advocacy director for MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, before joining the campaign. "We engage our supporters who are passionate."
Internet campaigning works best for candidates who are seeking to win over motivated, ideological supporters on hot button issues such as Iraq, says Julie Germany, deputy director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at George Washington University.
Connecting to the online world is particularly important for Democrats. Internet politics tends to be dominated by the political left, just as talk radio tends to lean to the political right.
The Web has opened up politics to a broader range of people.
"Two decades ago," said Germany, "if people wanted to get involved in a campaign, you'd drive to a campaign headquarters and ask people you don't know: `Can you put me to work?' - probably starting stuffing envelopes. Today, if you want to help a campaign, all you need is an Internet connection. You can e-mail friends or contribute. Unless you're part of the online world, it's hard to understand."
Among the new technologies of the online world is twittering. Edwards was the first presidential candidate to use twitters - sending text messages to supporters. He often sends large groups of supporters short notes from the campaign trail as a way to stay connected.
"It's a new opportunity for grassroots activism, which is so critical for strengthening democracy," Edwards told WNYC Radio earlier this year. The interview can be found on YouTube.
Edwards staffers say John and his wife Elizabeth have long been eager Internet converts. Elizabeth became an early user after the death of her son Wade in a 1996 automobile accident. She used chat rooms to connect with other parents who lost their children. Elizabeth Edwards also spent many hours helping set up an after-school computer study room she and her husband funded for Raleigh's Broughton High School.
The Edwards campaign has courted bloggers, even paying the costs for several to travel with his campaign during his announcement swing through key primary and caucus states in December.
John Edwards has used the Internet in numerous ways. He set up OneCorp, a Web-powered service organization that works on community projects. Edwards, Elizabeth and his daughter Cate have all blogged. Edwards is the subject of video blogs taken on airplane trips between events, where he muses on camera about events of the day.
Like old-style politics, Internet politics can take some unusual twists and turns - perhaps none more bizarre than the vandalism of John Edwards' virtual headquarters.
The headquarters doesn't actually exist, except in cyberspace. But an Edwards supporter from Virginia maintained a virtual campaign headquarters - complete with animated figures and a photograph of Edwards, at a Web site called "Second Life" which offers a virtual 3D world where some four million people live parallel lives through their computer.
In February, the Edwards "Second Life" headquarters was defaced by vandals, - Edwards' face was painted in black, and graffiti was sprayed over the headquarters. A virtual attack on a virtual headquarters.
Whether such phenomenon as virtual campaign headquarters or twitters will affect an election won't be known until election day.
"At the end of the day," said Germany, "two actions are going to count: Did you donate and did you get out and vote. Only one of those can be done online."
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Late last November, the 15th Street Tavern, Denver's favorite venue for ear-splitting punk, was filling up with the usual suspects: Most of the audience members sported either ripped T-shirts or chains. But did they protest when the Cherry Bomb Club, an electro-dance band, took the stage and unleashed a torrent of disco-friendly beats? Hardly. By the end of the set, Tavern regulars were shaking their booties like young John Travoltas on a bad day.
"It was pretty hilarious, because it's a punk-rock bar," says Dave Moore, the Club's founder and chief mixologist. "Yeah, man, and it was cool to bring in that kind of music to a punk-rock bar. By the last couple of songs, we had everybody in the house up."
Erica Brown, a sultry vocalist who joins Moore and fellow singer Dan Wanush in the group, agrees wholeheartedly. "I had a couple people after the show come up to me and say, 'What's up with you guys? We've never seen you before, and, oh my God, we loved you!' And that surprised me a little bit, because I honestly didn't think we would do well in there. I really didn't. But it was one of the best shows we've ever done."
Maybe so, but the Cherry Bomb Club truly shines in classier venues, where Brown's diva tendencies have room to flower. At one Bluebird Theater date, she was clad in an electric-blue Vegas nightgown that matched the color of her wig. "I also have a red outfit with flame red hair in that same style," she notes, laughing, "and then a gold/black outfit with this gigantic Afro wig and these incredible black platform boots." Brown's sizzling singing is every bit as bold as her approach to clothing: Her voice has the bite of a crocodile in the lower register yet howls like the wind at higher pitches. She holds nothing back, radiating a confidence capable of converting even dedicated punkers into die-hard fans.
Brown has a history of working miracles like these: After all, she was part of Foreskin 500, a much-beloved (and now-defunct) outfit that took dance music to places it had previously never been. Moore, too, is a veteran of Foreskin, but whereas he used to play bass with that band and another raucous act, Bunny Genghis, he now dabbles primarily in the electronic spectrum. He samples bass sounds on his ancient Ensoniq EPS keyboard long before showtime--and on stage, his chief instrument is a mixer.
"The loops and the music and the keyboards are all on my sampler, which is triggered by me, and then I mix them in with the mixer, and then I have a keyboard I play live," he says. "I have too much going on to bring in turntables, but I eventually want to do that."
All the Club's beats are prerecorded as well--but if you think that watching someone fiddle with knobs and faders is inherently less interesting than scoping a live drummer, think again. Moore hypnotizes crowds with sorcerer-like movements and sounds, mystically dancing from one machine to the next like a mod Merlin. And when it comes to composition, his magic is even more potent. "I'm kind of a perfectionist," he admits. "I could keep going back and redoing songs over and over for the next ten years, you know. So I've been trying to teach myself to stop, to just put it out.
"It takes a long time," he adds. "I start out with a sample from a record, and my favorites are soundtracks. They're pretty well hidden in there, and I find a loop I like, and then I just put everything on top of there. But if you boil everything down, it all starts with one loop that I find somewhere on some record, and then it just builds into this giant song with verses, choruses--everything."
Wanush, who's best known as the former lead screamer for Denver's Warlock Pinchers, rounds out the threesome cleverly. While Mr. Wizard mixes spells in the back and Brown exerts her divine presence off to the right, Wanush dominates stage left, singing and dancing like an overly hormonal Andy Gibb as he shows off his naked chest, which his sport jacket can't quite hide.
Wanush's torso-baring didn't become part of the Club's shtick until after an appearance at a space in Los Angeles. "We got there and we were about to get ready to play," Wanush says. "We had like a half-hour or 45 minutes to go, and I looked at the wardrobe and saw Dave didn't bring the shirts with the suits. So Dave was able to get a shirt, but he was only able to get one. And this other one was like Spandex. It was a woman's shirt, and I was like, 'No, this is not going to work with the suit, Dave.' And so I said, 'Okay, I'm going to go without the shirt.'"
"It spawned a whole cult thing," Brown interjects, smiling, "because now when he does shows, women tell him to take his shirt off."
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When they're not helping to light Cherry Bomb's fuse, Wanush sings with the Wild Canadians, a Westword profile subject ("Something Wild," October 1, 1998), and Brown fronts a blues outfit with an easy-to-remember name: the Erica Brown Band. The variety of such projects may be one reason why few locals have pegged the band as a Foreskin 500 clone. "They completely disassociate one from the other," Brown says. "I've had no comparisons at all, interestingly enough, and I thought I would."
"The only comparison would probably be the sequenced drums," Moore notes. "We started off with house music, probably because I wanted to get away from what Foreskin was doing. Foreskin was more, well, I guess people called it industrial-guitar kind of music. So I wanted to get far away from that so it wouldn't be like, 'Oh, it's a Foreskin offshoot'--you know what I mean? And now I just kind of got my groove going. It's not going to go back to house, probably; it's just going to stick with that kind of, you know, 'hook and rhythm' thing--melodic beats.
"It's meant to be happy songs, happy music," he points out. "That's the goal. The economy's good; got to give them some good-feeling music.


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I WAS saddened to read our MP's non-committal stance on Gaza.
A violation of international law is indeed a serious matter. It seems clear that an attack on a UN-run school housing refugees is a very obvious breach of international law. Few of us are lawyers but surely we can form a view; indeed our country must do this if we are to exert any influence.
Our MP's position does not resonate with most people. Hamas does regularly launch rocket attacks and Israel is entitled to defend itself. The anti-rocket 'iron dome' system means that Israel has a very effective form of self-defence. How can it be proportionate to bring about the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians including so many children?
Israel's response seems to strengthen support for Hamas. Its stance is unhelpful to promote a two state solution and is unbecoming of a modern Mediterranean democracy.
We can take a view and we can take action: as a first step I hope our MP is working to make sure arms export licences for items that could be used in Gaza are immediately suspended.
The people of Salisbury are entitled to expect their representative to take a strong stand against disproportionate action in Gaza. We cannot look away.
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We get no real nudity from Robbie, but we've seen that before. Still no plans for Robbie to tour or release his latest CD in the US. Currently he is planning setting off his 2006 World Tour in South Africa in April before heading to Europe. He is touring in support of the album Instensive Care which features the hit single "Tripping."
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It goes without saying that tonight's pivotal game 6 is the biggest game of the year. If anyone knows what to expect, please let me know, because I can't figure this team out. They're down 3-2 in the series but both of their wins were by fairly large margins. They were great at home all year, but have dropped both home games in this series, and looked terrible while doing so. With that said, lets take a look at the ten most important questions heading in to today's matchup:
1. Will Salo play?
It was assumed that Sami Salo would miss game 6 after testicle-gate, but it looks like he might play! Salo participated in practice this morning (although skating gingerly) and participated in the power play meeting. He's going to be a game time decision. If he can't play, look for Lawrence Nycholat to play in his place.
2. Will Kevin Bieksa be good Bieksa or bad Bieksa?
Good Bieksa showed up in game 5, playing steady defensively and contributing offensively. Unfortunately that's been a rare site this year. Lets hope we see the good Bieksa for the second night in a row.
3. Will Roberto Luongo step up?
He has in all three games in Chicago but didn't in game 3 and 4. He'll need to fight to see pucks and will need to keep his composure.
4. Will the Canucks stay disciplined?
Lets hope so because their PK has been brutal in these playoffs.
5. Will the Canucks PK do the job?
They have a playoff worst 67.3% penalty kill percentage.They were 4 for 4 in game 5, which was huge.
6. Whose top scorers will rise to the occasion?
The Sedin twins haven't dominated a game in a while and Mikael Samuelsson is due also. Burrows had his best game in game 5. Patrick Kane has been quiet of late, which seems like the calm before the storm, while Jonathan Toews and Patrick Sharp have been great all series long. Those players, among others, will be key to their team's success.
7. Will Dustin Byfuglien get up to his old tricks?
He will probably interfere with Luongo most of the night, but it's how Luongo and the Canucks D respond to it that matters. Hopefully the refs actually call him for goalie interference one of these days also.
8. Will the Canucks get traffic in front of Antti Niemi?
Two of the three goals that Niemi let in last game were because of Burrows screening in front, so probably not a bad idea.
9. Who will score the first goal?
Chicago scored first in the last two games at GM Place and if the Canucks could pop the first one in it could calm some nerves and put the pressure on the Hawks. It might also get GM Place to be a bit noisy.
10. How loud will the fans at GM Place be tonight?
It's been quiet all playoffs long. Time for the fans to step up. Put down your blackberries and your sushi in the club seats and make some noise!!! Hopefully fans will take cheering as a way to make the team play better, not just as a matter of recognizing excellence.