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Weird Science (1985)
Lisa: So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?
Lisa: You okay?
Gary Wallace: Well, my nuts are halfway up my ass, but other than that, I'm perfect!
Lisa: Have you ever wondered how sad it is, that your son's only sexual outlet is tossing off to magazines in the bathroom?
Lucy Wallace: Oh Gary! Oh my God!
Gary Wallace: Ma, I never tossed off to anything!
Lucy Wallace: You told me you were combing your hair!
Gary Wallace: I was! I was!
Lisa: You had to be big shots didn't you. You had to show off. When are you gonna learn that people will like you for who you are, not for what you can give them. Well, in your race for power and glory, you forgot one small detail.
Wyatt: We forgot to hook up the doll.
Lisa: You forgot to hook up the doll.
Lisa: You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals.
[Gary is chanting incoherently. Wyatt seemed very confused by his best friend's odd behaviour. They are both wearing bras on their heads]
Wyatt: Gary?... By the way, why are we wearing bras on our heads?
Gary Wallace: [hesitates] Ceremonial.
Wyatt: A missile! A MISSILE! A MISSILE IN MY HOUSE, GARY!
Max: [Banging on it] Yup, this puppy's for real all right.
Gary Wallace: It was an accident. You know it happens.
Wyatt: ACCIDENT MY ASS, GARY! MY PARENTS ARE COMING HOME. CHET'S COMING HOME. THEY'RE GONNA FREAK OUT!
Gary Wallace: They're gonna shit egg rolls.
Mutant Biker: Can we keep this... between us? I'd hate to lose my teaching job...
Lisa: You guys created me, I didn't come from anywhere. Before you started messing around with your computer, I didn't even exist. By the way, you did an excellent job. Thank you.
[the woman that Gary and Wyatt created is looking for a name]
Gary Wallace: How about Lisa?
Lisa: Why Lisa?
Gary Wallace: Why not?
Wyatt: He used to like a girl named Lisa.
Lisa: [smiles] Oh yeah? Old girlfriend?
Wyatt: She kicked him in the nuts.
Gary Wallace: [annoyed] Will you shut the hell up?
Wyatt: [sympathetically] Look Gary, it wasn't your fault. All you said was hello to her.
Gary Wallace: [annoyed] Look Wyatt, shut up!
[Wyatt puts up his hands defensively, indicating that he will shut up. He looks slightly hurt by Gary's treatment of him as he was only trying to help]
Chet: I'm gonna tell Mom and Dad everything. I'm even considering makin' up some shit!"
Chet: You two donkey-dicks couldn't get laid in a morgue.
Gary Wallace: This isn't my car. This isn't my suit. Those weren't even my friends.
Deb: Why are you telling me this?
Gary Wallace: Because I want you to like me for what I am.
Deb: Whatever you are, I like it.
Gary Wallace: How's your stomach?
Wyatt: It's a little better.
Gary Wallace: [starts pacing] If you're going to float an air biscuit, let me know, okay?
Wyatt: [confused] Float a what?
Gary Wallace: [slightly annoyed] If you're gonna fart, if you're gonna squeeze cheese, let me know, okay? I'll hit the fan!
Wyatt: I'm sorry, Gary, it's just I suffer from pain and discomfort due to occasional stomach upset.
Susan, Perfume Salesgirl: You guys looking for something for your mom?
[Gary and Wyatt exchanged an amused look]
Gary Wallace: I really don't think so...
[reads her nametag]
Gary Wallace: Sue.
Susan, Perfume Salesgirl: [astonished] You guys have... girlfriends?
Gary Wallace: You know, I really wouldn't refer to a 23-year-old woman as a girlfriend... more of a lover...
Gary Wallace, Wyatt: Lover... mistress.
Wyatt: Sexpot.
Gary Wallace: Sexpot is what she is.
Susan, Perfume Salesgirl: You guys are the ones who got beat up at the homecoming game... right?
[the drunk Gary starts laughing and buries his face in Wyatt's shoulder]
Wyatt: [nervously] He's not laughing at you, Chet.
Gary Wallace: [still laughing; nods] Yes, I am.
Gary Wallace: Mom, I never toss off to anything!
Lucy Wallace: [crying] You told me you were combing your hair!
Gary Wallace: But I was! I was!
Lisa: Don't threaten me Al! You're out of shape, I'll kick your arse.
Lisa: I can be a real serious bitch if I don't get what I want.
Lisa: If you want be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle.
Dino: Tell me something. What's a beautiful broad like you doing with a malaka like this? Huh?
Lisa: It's purely sexual.
Dino: No shit.
Gary Wallace: She's into malakas, Dino!
Dino: "She's into malakas"! Do you believe that?
Chet: How 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
[Gary and Wyatt are about to go out with Lisa and they both are wearing dorky suits and hairstyles]
Wyatt: What are we going to do with her?
Gary Wallace: Look, we'll just go with the situation okay? And I'm sure by Sunday you'll think of something. You're a very bright guy. I have a lot of faith in you okay?
Wyatt: I'm just being practical.
Gary Wallace: I know you are and I apperciate it.
Wyatt: But what are we going to do about this mess?
Gary Wallace: Wyatt you have plenty of time to clean up tommorrow okay?
Wyatt: Ok but don't get any B.O. on Chet's suit, or he'd kill me.
[they walk out of the room and all of a sudden they are wearing nice suits]
Wyatt: Where are we going anyway?
Gary Wallace: I don't know she said we're going downtown and OH MY GOD! Whose stuff is this? Is this yours?
Wyatt: Oh shit!
Gary Wallace: What's going on here?
Wyatt: I don't know.
Gary Wallace: Wyatt, what's going on here?
Wyatt: GARY I DON'T KNOW! But you look good though all right?
Gary Wallace: Yeah?
Wyatt: Yeah.
[Gary and Wyatt are in the bathroom while Hilly and Deb are outside]
Hilly: What are you guys doing here?
Wyatt: [from inside the bathroom] Gary was just takin' a shit!
[Gary closes the door and slaps the grinning Wyatt hard across the face]
Wyatt: Gary, you're just as uptight as I am, all right?
Gary Wallace: Nobody could be as uptight as you! Nobody! Your middle name is tense. Wyatt "Tense Up" Donnelly.
Wyatt: All right, this is true, this is true.
Gary Wallace: It's true.
Wyatt: But it's not so bad. We can hear the music.
Gary Wallace: [sarcastically] We can hear the music, that's great. Maybe if we put our noses to the door, we can smell the food!
Wyatt: [referring to Lisa] Do you think she'll understand?
[Gary puts his arm around Wyatt's shoulders]
Gary Wallace: I'm sure she will. I mean, I sure as hell wouldn't wanna date you.
[Wyatt grins]
Gary Wallace: You're not my type, you know.
Wyatt: Gary, Gary, Gary! There are motorcycles in my house!
[Gary grabs Wyatt by the lapel and pulls him towards him]
Gary Wallace: Wyatt, there are killer mutants in your house, okay?
[the front wall of the house is suddenly torn down. Lord General and a biker girl enter the house through it]
Wyatt, Gary Wallace: Screw the house!
Wyatt: Do you think Lisa's having a good time?
Gary Wallace: Lisa could have a good time at an insurance seminar, Wyatt.
Gary Wallace: Where'd your parents go anyway?
Wyatt: Cincinnati. They're meeting the guy my sister wants to marry.
Gary Wallace: Chloe? Who the hell would want to marry Chloe?
Wyatt: He's studying to be a vet.
[He grimaces slightly, wondering if that has anything to do with it]
Gary Wallace: That's not a bad idea.
Wyatt: What?
Gary Wallace: Making a girl. Actually making a girl. Like Frankenstein... except cuter.
Wyatt: [stands up] You're serious?
[Gary grabs Wyatt by the collar and pulls him towards him]
Gary Wallace: Look me in the eye. Do I look serious?
Wyatt: Gary Wallace, that's-that's gross! That's sick! I am not digging up dead girls!
[Gary puts his hand over Wyatt's mouth and sits him down on the bed]
Gary Wallace: No, I'm not talking about digging up dead girls, Wyatt. I'm talking about your system, idiot, your computer!
[Gary and Wyatt have just returned home from a bar. Gary is very drunk but Wyatt is perfectly sober]
Chet: [to Wyatt] If he pukes, you die.
Gary Wallace: You know, I can't believe this, Wyatt. I'm so disappointed in us. I mean, all our lives we've been saying how great it would be if we went to parties, right? And now it's our party and we're in the john. We're in the john!
Henry: I'm not going to stand here and listen to this baloney.
Carmen: He won't, you know. He doesn't stand for baloney.
Lisa: What are you so nervous about? Everything's cool.
Gary Wallace: EVERYTHING'S COOL! Yeah yeah. My dad's gonna castrate me. And my mother almost had like cardiac arrest. My parents are not gonna let me in the house again and if they do I'm gonna be grounded till I'm about 45. But other than that everything's great. Everything's cool. In fact things can't get any better.
Chet: Lady, I wanna get to the bottom of this. ASAFP.
Lisa: Oh, so do I.
Chet: But first I'd like to... butter your muffin.
Lisa: Why do you have to be such a wanker?
Chet: Because I get off on it!
Lisa: If you don't cheer up, I'll blow your face off.
Lisa: If we're going to have any fun together, you guys have better learn to loosen up.
Chet: Like your panties!
Wyatt: It's a joke, Chet!
Chet: That's not a joke, that's a severe behavioral disorder. I mean, the next thing you know, you'll be wearing a bra on your head!
Chet: [opens a pantry door, his grandparents are in there, frozen] Hi Nanny, hi Grampy.
Chet: [closes door and turns to everyone else] I'm not a moron, you know. I...
Chet: [suddenly realizes] Was that my grandparents?
Chet: [Lisa nods, Chet opens the door again] Are they dead?
Lisa: Oh, no, they're just resting.
Chet: What are they doing in here?
Lisa: I put them in there. I didn't want the boys to get into trouble. Quite frankly, they weren't having a very good time at the party.
Chet: Not having a good time? Do you think they're having a good time being catatonic in a closet?
Chet: [pointing a rifle at Gary's face] Freeze!
Gary Wallace: Chet!
Chet: [Hits Gary in the head with the rifle] Where's my brother?
Gary Wallace: Ow... uh, I don't know.
Chet: [Hits Gary again] You're dead meat pilgrim!
[Points the rifle at Deb]
Gary Wallace: Chet, Chet, Chet, Chet, that's her nose. Come on, Chet she's got nothing to do with this!
Chet: Ok. You die, she walks out of here with a severe limp.
[Points the rifle at Gary and Deb repeately, then hits both in the head]
Chet: I'll be back.
[Leaves the room]
Gary Wallace: That's Wyatt's older brother Chet. He's kind of an asshole.
[Wyatt and Lisa are going downstairs. He looks very nervous and tense]
Lisa: Wyatt, you're going to have a heart attack by the time you're forty if you don't learn to relax. Have you tried inversion boots?
[Wyatt is driving himself, Gary and Lisa back to his home. Gary is very drunk]
Gary Wallace: Gimme de keys! Gimme de keys!
Wyatt: [to Lisa; concerned] Is he going to be okay?
Wyatt: Gary, where the hell do you get that thing?
Gary Wallace: It's a squirt gun, man.
[Suddenly, there's a loud bang and a chandelier crashes to the ground. Both Gary and Wyatt look terrified]
Lisa: [smiles] That's my boys.
Lisa: Just for that I ought to give you a set of elephant balls!
Wyatt: You know Gary, for the first time in my life; I don't feel like a total dick.
Gary Wallace: Do you know what I would like to do?
Wyatt: Shower with them.
Gary Wallace: Then bang with the city baby, dead on! For a little drinks, a little night-life, dancing.
Wyatt: Dancing.
Gary Wallace: We'll throw a huge party. I mean huge party! Everybody's invited. Women everywhere. All these girls, they're all there. Naked bodies everywhere. They all know my name.
Wyatt: Gary, Gary.
Gary Wallace: What?
Wyatt: Nobody likes us. Nobody.
Lisa: If you ever get the chance, shower with them. I did. Mmm, it's a mindscrambler. Hurts so good.
Wyatt: Gary, don't you feel like a chicken?
Gary Wallace: Wyatt, if I could shoot an egg out my ass right now, I would! Look we can deal with shame, death is a much deeper issue.
[Lisa kisses Wyatt]
Lisa: Are you sure you're only fifteen?
Wyatt: [smiles] I'll be sixteen in June.
[Chet finds out that the house is a mess and his room is snowing. He blasts the door to his sister's room where Wyatt are Hilly were sleeping]
Wyatt: Hi Chet.
Chet: [Grabs Wyatt] What the hell is going on around here?
Wyatt: It was an accident Chet.
Chet: An accident? An accident? Do you realize it's snowing in my room goddammit!
Wyatt: It's weird Chet. It's really weird Chet.
Chet: It doesn't take a genius to figure that out monkey dick. Start talking little man.
Wyatt: It's a really long story Chet. Gary and I were messing around with the computer Friday night. We decided to make a woman and we did and she went crazy and she messed up the whole house.
Chet: Don't smart mouth me you wormy little shit!
[Places Wyatt in a neck hold]
Hilly: Look just leave him alone!
Chet: Stay out of this bimbo! It's a family matter.
Wyatt: Look Chet. Find Lisa. She'll clear up everything.
[Chet tightens his grip on Wyatt]
Wyatt: You can have my college money. And my social security, Chet.
[Chet releases Wyatt]
Chet: You're stewed, buttwad!
Wyatt: [looks around; nervously] Me?
Chet: Do you know what time it is?
Wyatt: [guessing] Two?
Chet: Time to play the fiddler.
Wyatt: I was kind-of counting on you to be human about this...
[Chet grabs him by his lapels and shoves him hard against the wall]
Gary Wallace: Maybe it was a dream, you know, a very weird, bizarre, vivid, erotic, wet, detailed dream. Maybe we have malaria.
Gary Wallace: It can't be a dream! How can 2 people have the same dream. Ok lets analyse this. In the middle of the night... did I get up... and yack in your sink?
[Wyatt looks confused and, after a few seconds, shakes his head]
Gary Wallace: Didn't throw up? No? Maybe it was a dream then, you know... a very weird... bizarre... vivid... erotic... wet... detailed dream. Maybe we had malaria.
Gary Wallace: Wyatt, your kitchen is blue...!
Gary Wallace: Why don't you just shut up, you bitch!
Gary Wallace: I can't believe you, I CANNOT belive you. You're dropping wolf-bait, and there are chicks outside!
Chet: This goes WAY beyond payment!
Gary Wallace: Hold it, Wyatt. I know female stats. Anything bigger than a handful, you're risking a sprained tongue.
Gary Wallace: Wyatt, are you ready to die?
Wyatt: Gary, I can't wait to die.
Gary Wallace: Why don't you shut up, bitch?
[to Lord General]
Gary Wallace: And as for your ugly a$$, you don't come into my friend's house, with your faggot friends and your bikes, crashing through windows, making a mess, breaking his furniture, stinking up the place and believe me you do stink.
[One of the mutant bikers sniffs his armpit]
Gary Wallace: And here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna get on your bikes, and pedal your ugly asses outta here.
[All the killer mutants laugh]
Gary Wallace: We're gentlemen so we're going to give you a choice.
[Gary pulls out a gun and points it at Lord General's head]
Wyatt: Yeah, you can go in peace.
Gary Wallace: Or you can stay and die. The choice is yours.
Gary Wallace: We're in.
Wyatt: We're in trouble Gary. This is highly illegal.
Gary Wallace: We need more input. We gotta fill this thing up with data. We gotta make her as real as possible, Wyatt. I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize.
[Gary and Wyatt are about to make another woman for Ian and Max are are showing them the blue print for the boobs]
Max: I feel like an asshole. This had better work.
Gary Wallace: This is just a blueprint guys, now how do you like it?
Max: Go! Go! Go!
Gary Wallace: Give em the knee shooters.
[Wyatt makes the boobs bigger]
Lisa: [to Wyatt's grandfather] Stop hitting people with your Rex Harrison hat!
Chet: [to Wyatt] Boy, I wouldn't give a squirt of piss for your ass right now.
[Wyatt is dragging the very drunk Gary up the stairs where they meet Chet]
Chet: The boozehounds returns!... What a joke.
Gary Wallace: [in the shower with Wyatt for a brief chat] I could be wrong, but I think these guys are stoked for us, Wyatt.
Wyatt: I got that feelin' myself.
Gary Wallace: What do we do?
Wyatt: I don't know.
Gary Wallace: Should we go for it?
Wyatt: What about Lisa?
Gary Wallace: She did say we should party.
Wyatt: Look, let's get on with these two, score points, and go back to Lisa. This is like a dream come true.
Gary Wallace: How about if we see if we can score the points with these two and deal with the McKays when we get to them later?
Wyatt: Sounds good.
Gary Wallace: Okay, but whatever happens, we've gotta give Lisa a shot. I don't wanna hurt her feelings. Maybe the girls are lookin' for a long, lean bone job from me. Ready to party now?
Wyatt: 10-4.
Gary Wallace: Let's break.
Gary Wallace: We're gonna go get you guys some drinks. You look like a scotch man, you want some- we're gonna get some stuff and...
Lord General: Is this your party?
Gary Wallace: [fumbling his words] Well yeah, kinda, if you could call it- because...
Wyatt: I don't know if you could call it a party, it's just a few friends.
Lord General: How come two unpopular dicks like you is having a party?
Gary Wallace: I don't know, I mean I guess I was just asking myself that very question, and I can be a dick sometimes, so I don't know, I don't know.
Lord General: How would you like all your friends here to know that you wear a bra on your head?
Lord General: [crowd laughter] Tossed off into any good books lately, have we?
Lord General: [crowd laughter] You two can't even take a shower with a beautiful woman without wearing your jeans.
Lucy Wallace: Yes. It's Gary. It's our boy Gary. He's our 16 year old boy.
Al Wallace: No, no, no. I don't know what the hell your talking about Lucy, and I want you to shut up.
Dino: Tell me something. What is a beautiful broad like you doing with a Malaka like this?
Lisa: It's purely sexual.
Dino: No shit.
Gary Wallace: She's into malakas, Dino!
Dino: Did you hear that? Shes into malakas!... You can say that again!
Lane, Shawn Patrick: This Bud's for YOU!
Chet: It's time to pay the fiddler...
The Weenies: This Bud's for you.


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Botetourt Medal awarded by the College of William and Mary. Thomas Pingo, London, England, 1772. Gold. OH: 1 ¾".
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Burwell
Pine Tree shilling. John Hull, Boston, Massachusetts, 1667-1674. Silver. OH: 1 1/5".
Gift of the Lasser Family
Continental $20 note. Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1775. Paper and ink. OH: 5"; OW: 2 1/2".
Gift of the Lasser Family
Through the generosity of the Lasser Family, Colonial Williamsburg's collection of coins, medals, and currency associated with early America is one of the most comprehensive in existence. Primarily focused on the period 1500-1800, it contains thousands of specimens.
Because colonial America operated within a global economy, a wide range of gold, silver, and copper coins from many nations circulated in the colonies. Products from the Spanish mints in the New World were especially common and are well represented in the collection. Present, too, are comprehensive holdings in the coins of the colonial powers, including England, France, Holland, and other European countries.
The silver coins issued by the Massachusetts Bay colony between 1652 and 1682 are now iconic pieces of Americana. Colonial Williamsburg's holdings include more than 80 examples of the "New England," "Willow Tree," "Oak Tree," and "Pine Tree" types. Other early American issues include 1776 Continental dollars, confederation-era coins, and the first types struck by the fledgling United States Mint in the 1790s.
To alleviate the shortage of coins, paper money began to appear in America in the late seventeenth century, and it circulated extensively through the rest of the colonial period. Reflecting this pattern, hundreds of notes of diverse types from all colonies are represented in the collection. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the Continental Congress authorized our first national currency; Colonial Williamsburg's assemblage of Continental Currency is complete for date and denomination.
Tokens and medals are also an integral part of early America's numismatic story. Areas of strength in the collection include medals commemorating historical and military milestones, those celebrating George Washington, and a series made specifically for presentation to Native Americans between the early eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Coins of Colonial America: World Trade Coins of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A look at an impressive collection of antique coins donated to the Foundation.
By Joseph R. Lasser, Gail G. Greve, William E. Pittman, and John A. Caramia, Jr.
An impressive collection of antique coins donated to the Foundation is the focus of this book. Joseph Lasser contributed an overview about currency in colonial North America and sections on "Latin American Origins," "Coins Powered World Trade," "Coins in Colonial America," and "A Williamsburg Merchant Counts His Money."
47 pp.,
4 color photographs,
30 black-and-white photographs,
6 drawings,
6 x 9 1997;
2nd printing,
2000 CW No. 566364 Softbound

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Did you miss your little angel? I'm not even going to bother with excuses about why my blog is so painfully un-updated the past four months. I'm busy and when priorities shift, the blog gets the shaft. I'm on a mission to update you June through October though, so here we go!
My goodness, this kid is so adorable sometimes!
This was clear back in March, but I forgot to post it. Go fig.
Best kid ev.
Above, Tori was a candidate for homecoming royalty, getting second attendant. Jack, Peyton and Sawyer were all very proud, as were all of us!
Tori had no idea she was about to be served a heaping platter of Jackaroni and Cheese.
BTW, this photo will be in a frame...
Forgive the clutter behind him, but trust me on this one, this cowboy's not gonna let some ignored paint cans get in the way of some good, old-fashioned fun!
Stick 'em up, mister!
Don't worry, it's just Jackles!
We were invited to a hog roast at Brian and Heidi Wright's house on Sunday, and we all had great fun and outstanding food, as well as dang good company! Above, Jack picks out a peck of pumpkins. Okay, just one, but a peck just sounded better...
Jackers and a cracker.
Jack-o-saurus and Peytunia Elisa-bells.
Jack and his amazing, beautiful mommy.
I have no idea what was going on here, but I took it months ago. Which makes me question why the kid was wearing a Halloween shirt months ago. Probably better not to analyze this one too much...


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Here's your final reminder to vote for the IAI Candidates running for the 3 seats available for the Board of Directors.
You've read their statements. A few of you may have heard them speak at a conference, worked with them, or partied with their crews.
But what if you haven't voted yet and you are yearning for more facts? Click the image and be satisfied.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that Jonell Gades keeps her twitter feed private, and thus the bird could not evaluate her.


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Clear Lake City-County Freeman Branch Library
Branch Location & Contact
The Clear Lake City-County Freeman Library is located at the intersection of Diana Ln. and Ramada Dr. From I-45S take the Bay Area Blvd. exit. Stay on the feeder road and go under the overpass. Turn right at the sign that reads "University of Houston – Clear Lake – East Bay Area Blvd." This will loop back and take you up onto the overpass. Continue on Bay Area Blvd. past intersections at Highway 3 and El Camino Real. Turn left onto Diana Lane. The library is on the left. (Key Map #618P)
Phone: 832-927-5420


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3 days of wilderness rafting in the South Island
By: Scott Kennedy, journalist who rafted earlier in the year with Queenstown Rafting
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When people think of whitewater rafting in the Southern Alps a few things come to mind: ice cold water, thrills and spills and some stinky borrowed wetsuit. The word luxury rarely enters the equation, let alone the whiff of decadence. The team at Queenstown Rafting is aiming to change your mind on just what a high-end rafting trip is all about.
The three day trip down the Landsborough River started early in Queenstown. Our first port of call was to the head shed to collect our equipment and meet the team. After a quick introduction we grabbed our refreshingly not-so-smelly wetsuits and the remainder of our gear and loaded up the van for the drive to the West Coast.
Over the Crown Range and the Gates of Haast westward we go. At a non-descript pull-out the van pulls over. As our driver and raft guide, Michel an affable French-Canadian, starts to explain what is going to happen a distant thumping is heard. As if right on cue the chopper buzzes the roof and lands in the paddock beside the road.
Like I said, this is luxury rafting. Loading our gear into the machine we climb aboard as the pilot revs the engine and the magic carpet lifts off the ground. Soaring effortlessly we glide above the forest heading up-river. The carpet of green is only broken by the blue ribbon of water that bisects the landscape. On the horizon the hulking statuesque silhouette of the Southern Alps stand guard like a fortress wall.
We touch down in a tiny clearing beside the river. Over the low frequency din of the rotor blades we unload the helicopter and in an instant we are left alone in the silence. I grab my gear and walk a few steps into a fully set up camp. An elaborate cooking area complete with table, chairs and fire pit. Just beyond is a tiny village of tents dotted amongst the trees.
I find my tent - this isn't some backyard pup-tent - tall enough to stand in and complete with camp cots, this is posh digs for the backcountry. Returning to the kitchen area I find that our guides have laid out a cheese platter and are pouring me a nice glass of Central Otago Pinot Noir. I wonder to myself if this new standard of luxury wilderness adventure will spoil me forever. Will I ever be able to go back to scroggin and Milo?
Before dinner I take a stroll amongst the forest. The sound of birdsong echoes all around as the sun begins to head towards the horizon. Upon my return dinner is on the go - and what a meal it is. A stir-fry befitting an up-market bistro is finished off with a chocolate pudding that you wish your mamma used to make.
The next morning I wake up early and promptly stay in bed for an hour - it's one of those sort of trips. Eventually the smell of breakfast urges me out of my palatial tent. After breakfast it's time to actually do some rafting on this rafting trip.
We load up and hit the river. It's a stunning day, warm and sunny - so not the West Coast. The river twists and turns through the landscape, bumpy second class rapids are broken up with larger sections of whitewater. As we head down river the intensity of the rapids builds.
We pull off to the side of the river to scout a rapid called 'Squeeze'. At a house sized rock the river takes a sharp right then a left. We would have to be precise, committed and ready to negotiate it. We paddle for all we're worth and ride the liquid locomotive. The rollercoaster of whitewater throws the raft at its whim. In a flash it's over and we're out the other side, laughing, elated, high-fiving and ready to take on the world.
The rest of the day is predicated with fun rapids, lazy floats and stunning views. We pull out late in the afternoon to another prepared camp. Before long the Pinot emerges and the smell of a roast lamb fills the air. As I drift off to sleep I wonder what the next day of rafting is going to entail. I wonder what's for breakfast and what jaw dropping views I'll see. I wonder if I could get used to being this spoiled. I think I could.
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Cairns, S;
Hass-Klau, C;
Goodwin, PB;
Traffic impact of highway capacity reductions: assessment of the evidence.
Landor Publishing: London.
In 1994, a government committee report showed that building roads can generate traffic. Since then, there has been a lot of interest in whether the opposite is true - can reducing road space for cars cut traffic? This could be particularly important when introducing policies like bus lanes, which could provide a cheap and effective way to improve the attractiveness of public transport, but which would be untenable if displaced traffic brought neighbouring roads to a standstill. The same issue is often raised during plans to introduce street-running light rail systems, cycle lanes, wider footpaths or pedestrianisation schemes. Therefore London Transport and the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) commissioned research to investigate the question, and employed a team at University College London (UCL) to look at the evidence (as reported here), and the consultancy MVA to look at the modelling implications. Consequently the UCL team examined nearly sixty locations where road space had been taken away from cars and put to other use. Examples were studied from the UK, Canada, Tasmania and Japan. In some cases, road space for cars had been reduced because of deliberate policies like bus lanes or pedestrianisation, in others it was because of problems like roadworks. Irrespective of the cause, in such circumstances, there are often predictions of major traffic chaos. Examination of the evidence suggested that these predictions rarely, if ever, prove accurate. Prolonged, long-term gridlock is simply not reported, although there can be short-term disruption, and some increase in problems on particular local roads. In many cases, there were actually significant reductions in the total amount of traffic on the networks studied. On average, 14-25% of the traffic that used to use the affected route, could not be found on the neighbouring streets. However, the results varied substantially, depending on the context. For example, where schemes made public transport more attractive, they were more likely to encourage people to change mode than those which did not. In explaining what was happening to the traffic, the following model of behavioural response emerged. Initially, when road space for cars is reduced, drivers simply change their driving styles in ways which pack more vehicles in, for example, by driving closer together. As conditions deteriorate, they then take the next easiest options - swapping to neighbouring streets, or changing their time of travel, leaving a bit earlier or later to avoid the worst of the traffic. As such adjustments also become problematic, a whole variety of responses is triggered, ranging from people altering how they travel, or where they carry out activities, through to people moving house or moving job, where the change in travelling conditions tips the balance in a decision that was being made for other reasons anyway. Taken together, this third set of responses accounts for the measurable disappearance of a proportion of traffic from the networks studied. The project also highlighted the amount of variability which underlies apparently stable traffic flows, and which enables people to change their travel habits. Specifically, individuals make adjustments to their travel behaviour on a fairly regular basis anyway, either because of minor factors (like the occasional decision to work from home, or to carry out one activity on the way to another), or because of longer-term, life-cycle events (like changes in household composition). Hence, when road space is reduced, some people are forced to alter a repeated, habitual pattern of behaviour, but other people are spontaneously reconsidering their travel options anyway, and can take account of changes in the network conditions as part of this process. It is their flexibility which enables surprisingly large changes in traffic flows to result from a particular change to road conditions. The findings from the project were welcomed by Gavin Strang, Minister for Transport, and the DETR aims to commission a good practice guide, to enable local authorities to take account of the results
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One of my very favorite things about taking a walk outside is that you never know what you might find. Even when you set out with a single purpose in mind, your trek may yield discoveries you never dreamed possible.
Take the walk I went on a few weeks ago with my coworker Lisa O'Brien. Heading to western Kane County, Lisa (the same person who spotted the tagged red-tailed hawk we wrote about a few weeks ago) had noticed an odd series of burrows along the north side of Route 38 near Pouley Road. A frequent traveler out that way, she said it appeared that the burrows were increasing in number. We both wondered whether this activity indicated that a badger was in the vicinity and, given the sunny and 50-degree weather that day, decided to go check it out.
Now, I'll tell you up front that we never did decide whose work those burrows may be. They seem fairly deep, and at 10-plus inches across certainly wide enough to accommodate a badger. But what was missing were the telltale claw marks badgers typically leave on the burrows' interior walls, as well as strands of fur around the entrances – another sure-fire badger sign.
We did pick up another interesting clue, a lump of what naturalists refer to as scat, that had been left near one of the burrows. The lump's contents – namely fur and bones – might possibly indicate its originator was a badger. But it wasn't very big, and its condition was somewhat degraded; it could just as easily have been a pellet ejected by a raptor or scat deposited by another sort of carnivore.
But I digress.
Lisa said she will continue to watch for more burrows appearing along that hilly rise or on other embankments in that area; she also will pay close attention this spring to see if any woodchucks – another mammal that digs extensively – appear in that area after their long winter's nap.
Remember how I said you can make interesting and unforeseen discoveries when you're out for a walk? That's exactly what happened next.
As Lisa headed in one direction toward her vehicle, I headed in the other toward mine. Granted, we were pulled off the road along the north side of 38, so the conditions were far from natural – gravel shoulder, assorted flotsam from passing cars, a scrap of newspaper...
Yet it was that paper that caught my eye. It was weathered – then again, what wouldn't be, given the exposed nature of roadsides. But this paper looked, well, different.
The fonts were unlike any I was familiar with in current newspapers, and the illustrations, too, looked very old-fashioned.
Intrigued by its oddities, undaunted by the curious stains along the edge (and thinking, what the heck, I already had tucked a scat sample in my coat pocket), I reached down and seized the scrap, just as a gust of wind was about to blow it away.
The print across the top of the page read The De Kalb Daily Chronicle. Below that were two columns that appeared to be excerpts from books – Jubilee's Pardner by Judd Mortimer Lewis and Red Redmaynes by Eden Philpotts – highlighted by fancy script and vintage drawings.
On the other side of the page were the sorts of text and photos you'd expect to see in a newspaper, although the headline that was still legible, "Only Woman Gold Mine Manager," did stand out as a bit unusual.
Then I saw it. The year the newspaper was published.
1923. What the...?
I've done a lot of traipsing about our beautiful county, and I've found some mighty strange and wondrous things. But a 90-year-old newspaper?
I'm not a historian, so my hypotheses of what happened are somewhat limited. But I'm wondering if perhaps somewhere near Route 38 and Pouley there might be an old building that either had newspapers piled inside, or perhaps had at one time been insulated with newspapers of the day. Then, with the passage of time and exposure to the elements, this scrap tore free.
Or, given the dark, almost burn-like, splotch on one end, perhaps this bit of history blew away from a burn pile.
At any rate, I know that this coming spring, when Lisa and I head back to 38 and Pouley to scout out more evidence of badgers or woodchucks or what have you, I'll also be keeping my eyes peeled for more wayside trash. There may be a lot more where this came from. Up to 90 years worth...
• Pam Otto is the manager of nature programs and interpretive services for the St. Charles Park District. She can be reached at 630-513-4346 or email@example.com.


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According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's office in Cheyenne, once arrested, individuals will be taken before a Federal Magistrate Judge for an initial appearance. Identities of the individuals arrested will not be made public until all have had their initial appearance and the case has been unsealed.


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Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center played host to Gov. Bobby Jindal who stopped by to celebrate the effects that the recent private-public partnership has had on the hospital.
Gov. Bobby Jindal visited Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma Monday to highlight improvements connected to the hospital's private-public partnership that started this year.
The agreement that was reached in December 2012 and put in place in late June will keep Chabert Medical Center running indefinitely after state budget cuts threatened to severely hobble or close the hospital.
Jindal said the partnership was not only a necessary choice but one that will improve the hospital.
"Our charity hospital did tremendous work for decades. However, we realized that we needed to change the way we operate. The federal government cut over a million dollars. We had a choice to make. We decided we wanted not only to continue to deliver services, but we wanted to deliver more services and better services," Jindal said.
Jindal announced Chabert will unveil two new digital mammogram units. In the past, the medical center had outdated units that required a special appointment for their use. Now testing can be done in a single visit with same-day results. Jindal said the hospital projects an increase of 200 mammogram visits over the next two years.
"It's no exaggeration to say that these two new machines will literally save lives," Jindal said.
The staff has increased, hiring a new cardiologist, urologist and other staff members, hospital officials said. As a result, cardiology, urology and colonoscopy visits have been up since the partnership began.
"Because of the investment in these doctors we now offer greater access to primary care services as well as more specialized cardiology care," said Dr. Michael Garcia, Chabert medical director.
Patient records are also becoming digital, Jindal said, something the hospital did not have. Combined with an improved IT department, the record switch is expected to be complete in 2014.
"This upgrade is a direct result of this partnership," Jindal said.
Ochsner Health System and Terrebonne General Medical Center stepped in as partners to lease the hospital from the state after the federal cuts were announced, officials said.
Since Chabert opened in 1978, Ochsner has used the hospital as a training ground for its resident doctors, who handle most of the patient load there.
Last year, Chabert CEO Rhonda Green credited the hospital's long-standing relationships with Ochsner and TGMC with getting the deal done.
The partnership was made necessary after federal Medicaid reimbursement cuts. Gov. Jindal's administration and LSU hospital system officials ordered cuts totaling about $152 million among the seven state charity hospitals.
"In Louisiana, for every uninsured person that would have benefitted with Medicaid, more than one person would have been taken out of private insurance," Jindal said. "That's bad for those individuals, that's bad for taxpayers, that's also bad for providers."
Chabert's share of the cut is $14.3 million, which would have resulted in the layoff more than 200 employees.
As part of the deal, Ochsner and TGMC agreed to chip in about $5.1 million to help offset that budget cut. Terrebonne Parish also contributed $2 million and Lafourche Parish contributed another $1 million to prevent staff and service cuts.
State Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, who's father's name graces the medical center, said the partnerships and contributions were key parts in improving the hospital.
"Since day one, this hospital has had to fight for its existence," Chabert said. "It's an example of how we help ourselves down here. Because without immediate intervention, had these parish governments not stood up, we would not be here today."
Jindal's visit was part of his statewide tour to highlight the good work being done in each parish.
Staff Writer Jacob Batte can be reached at 448-7635 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ja_batte


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Witness the signs of the coming apocalypse.
There are no more content patches planned to be released in the current iteration of the game.
The rate of subscribers deciding to take a break until the next expansion is released to sort of give themselves a chance to recover from burnout.
There's a progressive buff in the current dungeon that opens up the content of the final raid dungeon to a wider portion of the population.
All signs that point toward the upcoming release of another expansion.
These pre-expansion blues are hitting yet again, ladies and gentlemen and just as with the upcoming release of Cataclysm, there's a lot of preparation to be done if you're planning to continue onward into the Mists of Pandaria.
In this preliminary phase of expansion preparation we'll be taking a look at some of the more long term preparations. Given that the next expansion has yet to be given a release date or even a beta test, it's definitely not something that will sneak up on you but still, there are some things that we want to do that require a bit more time for preparation.
The foremost among them is to decide what the hell you're going to want to play once it hits.
In the case that you're happy with your current class and have no real urge to change what you're doing, your job is pretty simple. If you haven't done so already, start putting together as strong a DPS set as you can. The reason being that levelling as a tanking spec, while it heavily favors survivability, usually tends to be quite a bit slower than levelling as the damage specialization and given the option for dual spec, there's really no reason not to have that set up. Doing so will allow you the option of tanking the new instances when you need to but also not being disadvantaged when it comes to solo levelling.
On the other hand, maybe you're not happy with your current class. Maybe you have tank envy for another class or maybe even you're just plain tired of your class altogether.
If that's the case, this is what the early preparation is for as the advance warning will give you plenty of time to level up a new alt of something that you want to try out and get it prepped and geared up in time for the expansion.
If you happen to already have an alt that's mostly ready, then all the better as it means that you won't need nearly as much time to be ready.
The expansion changes, more than any other time during the game serve as good opportunities to swap out what you're doing to prevent the burnout that hits so many of us when we're forced to play any single class/role for too long at a time.
Though it may seem a bit early to consider, keep these things in mind as you play in these final days, really think about whether you're still enjoying the class you play and if you can stand being it for yet another expansion.
If you find yourself getting overly stressed or frustrated while playing, I would highly recommend moving away from tanking for a while, maybe even move away from tanking as your main role for the length of the next expansion to help keep things fresh.


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Hi Rachel,
I am interested in playing with you. I played in high school and play for leisure. I would love to hit with you. Do you have a partner? Perhaps we can play doubles.
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Hi Rachel,
Are you still looking for a hitting partner? I was told by a group of women i played with in San Francisco that I was rated as a 2.5 to a 3. I can't say for sure. I'm excited about the sport. I love it. If ever you feel like hitting, contact me. I live in Del Ray, Alexandria. I can go to Arlington also.
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If the Edward Snowden saga didn't feel enough like a spy flick yet, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein pushed it over the edge when she told CBS's Face the Nation that "the chase is on."
Having been surreptitiously whisked out of Hong Kong hours before an extradition request from the US went into affect, Mr. Snowden and a shadowy associate arrived in Moscow yesterday, only to disappear again today when the world's most wanted man failed to show up to a booked flight to Cuba.
But unlike a spy movie, where the character operates with stealth and under cover of darkness, Snowden has been accompanied every step of the way by an ever-watchful audience. As several cranky journalists aboard an Aeroflot flight to Havana can attest, the Snowden story has taken on a life of its own.
As the Huffington Post reported, Snowden's no-show surprised dozens of journalists who rushed to grab a ticket aboard his flight to Cuba, only to be greeted by an empty seat.
Standing next to Edward Snowden's seat on flight to Cuba. He ain't here. pic.twitter.com/NVRH3Pzved— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013
Unlucky. No drink served on Aeroflot flights to Havana.http://t.co/qYaBZWRZkz— Matthew Holehouse (@mattholehouse) June 24, 2013
There is even a Twitter feed dedicated to his unoccupied Aeroflot seat:
Desperate for a cigarette, but this is an #NSA flight (No Smoking Allowed). #Aeroflot sure has changed over the years.— 17A (@SnowdensSeat) June 24, 2013
This is only one instance of the fixation on Snowden, as everyone seems to have something to say and the Internet has provided the platform for panoply of jokes, memes, and commentary.
On Twitter, Snowden's fate and his possible whereabouts are the subject of massive speculation, and no small number of wisecracks:
Why did Edward Snowden cross the road? He didn't. #SnowdenJokes— David Waldman (@KagroX) June 24, 2013
Swonden is the new king troll, bet he never even went to Russia.— Shanklock Holmes (@Garethshanks) June 24, 2013
The headline for Snowden/Cuba debacle has to be 'CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR'— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) June 24, 2013
How could Snowden go to Cuba, a country where untried prisoners on hunger strikes are force fed with -- oh, wait, it's us doing that.— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) June 24, 2013
Snowden seeks political asylum in Ecuador w/Assange? Obvious twist, he's a double agent sent to assassinate Assange. Who will Nic Cage play?— Tammy Bannister (@thehandrail) June 24, 2013
Others have used it as an opportunity to poke fun at Russian President Vladimir Putin as well:
Putin: "I have no idea where Snowden is...just like I have no idea where Robert Kraft's super bowl ring is."— Nader Nekvasil (@NaddySPE1901) June 24, 2013
If Edward Snowden arrives in Cuba wearing Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring, I'm gonna start to get suspicious.— Tony Rossi (@tonyrossimedia) June 24, 2013
Several high-profile figures have come out in public to either support Snowden, like Oliver Stone, or to condemn him, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney. And as if it were some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, there have already been negotiations over the film rights to his story, as the Guardian reports. However, most of this attention has been focused on Snowden and his personal life, rather than the issues of privacy and surveillance that his leaks have raised. There's even a popular mania surrounding his pole-dancing girlfriend.
"The story is extremely Hollywoodesque," says Professor Sarah Sobieraj, an associate professor of sociology at Tufts University. "News is character driven… Snowden is a very compelling character from a storytelling perspective."
This is not to say that important conversations aren't taking place online and in creative ways. Don't like the administration's surveillance habits? There's a Tumblr for that: Obama is Checking Your Email. BuzzFeed parodied Obama's snooping agenda following revelations about the US government's phone surveillance by reimagining a Verizon ad campaign.
But in many cases, these discussions are crowded out by the larger-than-life details of Snowden's location and plans.
"Is he a hero or a traitor? This complexity is interesting to people," says Prof. Sobieraj. "[But] the fact that the focus is more on where he is and what is going to happen to him and considerably less than the national surveillance and privacy issues is problematic."


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Tune Posters - Split Ink Fountain
These two posters came to us from agency friends at Bailey Lauerman, illustrated by the ever fabulous Rilla Alexander of Rinzen. This TUNE project was sponsored via federal grant by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Bailey Lauerman launched TUNE which uses music to inspire young women to make better choices and live healthier lives. There are 8 selected artists out of 150 entries, and their music was written and recorded specific for this project. Songs are free to download from the TUNE website.
We printed the posters with a split ink fountain using florescent pink and blue inks which blended to a nice purple in the middle. We kept the lateral ink distribution setting at maximum spread for a good blend in the poster. It was printed on French Paper Poptone Whip Cream 140lbC.
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Don Kirshner, the veteran music mogul who shepherded songs from a monstrously talented stable of young writers to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s, launched the career of the Monkees and then became a familiar face to millions of rock fans as impresario of his late-night music TV series in the 1970s, died Monday of heart failure in Boca Raton, Fla., where he had lived for the last decade, a family spokeswoman said Tuesday. He was 76.
"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" brought the biggest names in rock and pop music to television in live performances instead of the lip-synced sessions that often characterized rock music on television.
Don Kirshner: The obituary of pop music mogul Don Kirshner in the Jan. 19 LATExtra section said he served as music supervisor on three Oscar-winning films and listed "To Sir With Love" as one of them. That film did not win an Academy Award. —
Each week Kirshner, usually dressed in a high-collared leisure suit, dryly introduced acts in his distinctive Bronx accent, including the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sly & the Family Stone, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Barry Manilow, the Eagles, Devo, Prince and countless others over the show's run from 1973 to 1982.
"In terms of the show, it's a crucial '70s bridge between the Ed Sullivan era of the '60s and MTV of the '80s," Ron Simon, curator of TV and radio for the Paley Center for the Media, said Tuesday. "The variety show was in decline, and Kirshner was able to capitalize on many different forms of music that were coming about in the '70s."
His stiff posture and monotonic introductions of musicians led to a famous parody that musician and bandleader Paul Shaffer delivered a number of times on "Saturday Night Live."
"He was a great character, a lovable character; certainly the most colorful character I've ever met," Shaffer told The Times on Tuesday. "He was very fast-talking, always very emotional about the music he loved and the music he was making.... But when he went on camera, he slowed right down. I guess he was nervous and he froze a little bit, but still spoke from the heart. I found it very humorous, never forgot it."
Kirshner helped dream up
a fabricated pop-rock quartet assembled in the wake of Beatlemania to translate the youthful energy and appeal of their movie "A Hard Day's Night" into a weekly TV show, which yielded a string of hit singles and albums for the band consequently dubbed "The Prefab Four."
The group members' desire to incorporate their own musical sensibilities as songwriters and instrumentalists into the show led to a famous battle over creative control with Kirshner, who ran Colgems Records, the label that put out the Monkees' recordings.
Guitarist and songwriter Michael Nesmith famously put his fist through the wall of Kirshner's bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel during one of the more heated sessions.
"Donny was there with his attorney," Monkees drummer and singer Micky Dolenz told the Washington Post in 2004, "basically presenting us with this money and saying, in so many words, 'Why don't you shut up and cash the check?' And that's not the sort of thing you said to Mike Nesmith at the time. To be honest, I couldn't have cared less. I was 20 years old, making money. But Mike led this revolt, and out of camaraderie, we all went along."
The Monkees won, and eventually Kirshner was fired from his role with the group. He went on to form one of pop's quintessential bubblegum acts targeting teen and preteen fans:
Even before the Monkees got started in 1965, Donald Kirshner, born April 17, 1934, in the Bronx borough of New York, was already a music business heavyweight, having helped get a career going for his friend Bobby Darin. He opened a music publishing company that hired rising songwriters, including Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka and the teams of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
Those writers crafted dozens of pop hits in the early to mid-'60s, many of them since lauded as classics of the era. "They're the modern day Lerner and Loewes and Gershwins and Porters," Kirshner said in 2001. "These writers, I believe, will be timeless; and the songs will last like all the greats." For his role in discovering and nurturing so many of them, Time magazine once dubbed him "The Man With the Golden Ear."
After "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" ended its run, Kirshner went into retirement and moved to Florida, where he lived for decades in virtual seclusion with his wife, Sheila.
He served as music supervisor on three Oscar-winning films, "To Sir With Love," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Born Free," but his career extended well beyond the music world. He also championed the careers of many comics: Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Jay Leno, Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling and David Letterman, among others.
In 1963 he sold his publishing catalog for $3 million, a sizable sum at the time for a trove of material estimated decades later to be worth $1 billion for the ongoing revenue generated by such hits as "Up on the Roof," "On Broadway," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Dream Lover."
A series of bad business deals in the '80s and '90s, notably the loss of ownership of the master tapes from the "Rock Concert" series that were sold at auction in 2001 for $125,000, led him to file for bankruptcy in 2000. He returned to action four years later as co-founder of Kirshner International, a company that attempted without much success to develop new music and video content for the Internet age.
Kirshner periodically expressed his disappointment that he was never inducted into the
as one of its many non-performer honorees.
"I don't want to sound like sour grapes," he said in 2004, "but I believe I should have been one of the first three or first five inducted. Seriously. I mean, they've got people in there that I trained, and I'm not in? It bothers me, on principle."
In addition to Sheila, his wife of 50 years, Kirshner is survived by his children, Ricky and Daryn, and five grandchildren.


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« In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time »
The 100 Greatest SFF Novels of All Time
by ALEX CARNEVALE
What to read? It is a question asked mostly by women, who comprise the majority of America's reading public. Males make up some teensy other part. Either sex is challenged by a lack of a path through difficult material. It is difficult to know what is best. Although many have made a distinction between the fantasy and science fiction fields, I see no reason to arbitrary draw such a lien. The novels I find I most enjoy straddle the boundaries of the two, which is not to say that hard science fiction and pure fantasy don't retain their pleasures, and many books characterized at such found their way to this list.
At the nexus of the two genres is where the human imagination begins to reveal frightful and hopeful things about our own society. Sometimes I will come across someone reading what looks to me like a really boring book; e.g. anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald or James Patterson or Bill Bryson. Instead look to the vast store of cheap entertainment found in these immemorial classics of the page:
100. The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin
An extraordinary powerful novel inspired by Vietnam in LeGuin's Hainish series, where one planet gives the gift of interstellar travel to the universe.
99. Sorcerer's Son by Phyllis Eisenstein
An original fantasy with the crucial grasp of how to make magic entertaining and plausible, not silly and random. Castles and sorcerers were never so deftly done.
98. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Kress is in true command in her short fiction, but this was her memorable attempt to capture how our society might change and still endure.
97. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
One of his more well-thought out plots with interesting commentary on religion and sacrifice.
96. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Incredibly entertaining and knowing about all sort of aspects of life, some of which I'd never even thought of before.
95. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
An out-of-nowhere smash with rich detail.
94. The Company by K.J. Parker
Parker's been one of the most exciting new writers to appear in the field. The Company is the best thing written about the meaning and import of war in two decades.
93. An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Wolfe's inspired memoriam on Karl Rove, the Republican party, and the politics of the future. An insanely complex and deep science fiction story lurks below a Lovecraftian blend of Christianity and atheism. Easily the best book of 2008.
92. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
This list is also about pure readability — these books should flow easily into your subconscious, hopefully inhabiting your dreams. Park did more than that; it inspired an entire generation of fossile hunters, and it did it with a gripping adventure story that was also a pure morality play to the very last. Every time the story is told, we ask ourselves what to do with these beasts out of time? No answer forthcomes.
91. Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
An insane narrator with a lot of time.
90. Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch
Disch killed himself, a harsh end to one of SF's great cult heroes. Camp Concentration is a novel about prisons real and imagined, and its subtlety is convincingly rewarding in comparison to other novels that approach the same. Kafka-inspired, it reminds one of the master. What greater compliment is there?
89. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Sly, understated, and poignantly delivered, Kushner wrote an incredible novel near the tail end of the 1980s. I never really cared for the sequel, but the original should be paired with the protagonist's origin story that she wrote last year and rereleased as one volume.
88. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
As horror novels go, this one's relatively simple. Like Simmons' brilliant retelling of the death of Charles Dickens in Drood, this isn't all that it appears. Simmons is a preternaturally talented genius.
87. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Some call Speaker a sequel to Ender's Game, but the books are vastly different. Here is larger scope, greater torment. Xenocide followed, a worthy sequel before the series grew inevitably stale without a common element or quest. Card would remedy that inefficiency with the Alvin Maker books, his shot at creating an American fantasy.
86. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
The post-apocalyptic theme is so dumb and I never really liked it until I read Walter Miller's version.
85. Sphere by Michael Crichton
The slightly better book, Sphere had a really strange Barry Levinson movie. It's basically a sub movie recast as a alien movie recast as a psychological fantasy. I have always found its claustrophobic environment enhancing. Crichton's remaking of adventure novels with science fiction was prescient.
84. Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
The quintessential vampire story turned on its head. GRRM sets his vampire mythos in the legends of the American South, and essentially condemns slavery and blood-drinking as different but the same. A masterful treatment of the Dracula theme.
83. The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Amis' disturbing vision of England without the Reformation.
82. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
In this distinguished and wildly successful stint at world-building, McCaffrey built a fantasy of extreme and exciting possibilities that could capably consider almost any topic.
81. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Time travel stories are uniformly bad except when they aren't.
80. Watership Down by Richard Adams
An astonishing novel of anecdotal ecology, the best book ever written from the perspective of the animal.
79. Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
If man evolves and no longer is man, what's left? Swanwick's virtues have been praised recently in these pages.
78. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Supreme inheritor of the noir sensibility, Morgan's chilling novel sets a murder mystery in a near unrecognizable version of future Earth.
77. Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
A waystation for indigents in modern-day Chicago, a time-travel story with balls and depth. Wolfe's haunting and miraculous horror novel is more unnerving that any Eli Roth movie.
76. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke was a decent scribe, but most of his work is a bit on the clumsy side. Not so with Rama, a scattered exploration of how space might fare put in close context with man.
75. Ringworld by Larry Niven
A wonderful out-of-the-box fantasy and introduction to Niven's Known Space universe.
74. Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
A talented short story writer, Sterling created the perfect collection of this transcendant material with Schismatrix Plus.
73. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The best science fiction can offer is some concrete re-imagining of what will actually become of us. In the world of Old Man's War, Scalzi consistently poses the bitter questions, and answers them with even tougher ones. By the time he's rehashing Heinlein's usual space colony plot in The Last Colony you feel more bowled over than ever.
72. Maske: Thaery by Jack Vance
Vance's flawless bildungsroman takes up eminent domain in the context of a spy story and moving clash of cultures. A phenomenal example of how to write serious but simple fantasy.
71. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
First and foremost a telling of one of the most intriguing human myths in a very fun way.
70. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Still feels very cinematic if not very edgy. Bradbury's future history is always fun to relive.
69. Flow My Tears The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Almost everything written about future America is dwarfed by Dick's dystopia. It has now become a SF cliché, but Dick remakes it with thought and verve in this book and the 15th ranked book on this list.
68. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Asimov was a determined technician and an inspired historian. This is a great example of his ability to take a familiar theme and completely flip it on its head.
67. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
It is something extraordinary to write with real feeling about places, people and ideas when most of them are invented. Stephenson's extraordinary perceptiveness is the key to this steampunk fantasy, and the plaudits of his readers are his true reward.
66. The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
We always imagine that human cultures that preceded us wouldn't fare well against starfaring conquerors. Anderson undermines this point of view by casting the early English amongst the stars. The English villager is a hearty sort, but Anderson's grasp of what makes alien cultures 'alien' is pitch-perfect. A hilarious book.
65. A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin
A beautiful story about our common empathy for others, life as a kind of parasite.
64. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
How to come at Lovecraft but from an angle? Here was one of predictive sensibilities and great zest for the occult. At the Mountains is among his finest work, but there is so much else to recommend.
63. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
When we imbue ourselves with recognition for nonhuman intelligences, we enrich the closeness between all peoples of difference. This message floats about in a terrific but sad novel.
62. Wildlife by James Patrick Kelly
A pitch-perfect classic of the future. Imagine Requiem of a Dream crossed with Hunter S. Thompson's most fevered imaginings. A rewardingly sad story.
61. The Book of Knights by Yves Maynard
The most time-honored standard in fantasy fiction redefined for a new era. A most moral adventure.
60. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
No knock on Jordan. His series is long and impressive, and full of pleasant malefactions and strange echoes of America's military history. Its characters are numerous and sometimes difficult to track, but the rewards the story provides in the moments it strains to achieve make the journey worthwhile.
59. Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
The advancement of technology will soon consume our experience of everything, especially how we act as a species. Haldeman describes this triusm and watches the inevitable new humanity emerge from the wreckage of an action story.
58. Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
A novel in three discrete parts, Silverberg's masterpiece of science fantasy imagines a dessicated Earth vividly.
57. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A small little tale of sheer perfection, Bilbo was such a memorable and worthy person that it felt reassuring to get to know him in such a fashion. Therefore handing off his tale to Frodo seem a difficult and preposterous transition, until you figured out it was all about man's love for man.
56. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The doomsday book, the one about death in every molecule of life. Vonnegut writes at his highest level here.
55. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
This was his best effort at describing a philosophy in terms of a world.
54. The Book of the Short Sun by Gene Wolfe
Following right after his Book of the Long Sun, this effort takes us to dual planets of Blue and Green, where inhumani stalk people and machines, and Horn tries to unite his worlds.
53. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
His reimagining of his experience in Vietnam as space conquest rendered bloody and mind-numbing. The novella inside, the tale of the soldier's return to a society he no longer recognizes, is a masterpiece in itself, but Haldeman is also interested in turning over in his mind the harshest parts of a military life.
52. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
He imagined civilizations across the stars and an Encyclopaedia Galactica.
51. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
A magical fantasy epic, LeGuin wrote slightly down to a younger reader, and she found a new and growing audience to appreciate her impeccable grasp of how individuals interpret and reacts to their civilizations.
50. The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
Wolfe challenged himself by taking the most traditional theme and flipping it around so many times. As effortless as magic properly done.
49. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Rand took as subject the plight of the individual in a society that attempted to squelch his purpose and initiative at every turn. Through the story of Howard Roark, we begin to appreciate and see for the first time the visible constraints on ourselves that were invisible before. Among the most widely read books ever written.
48. The Demon Princes by Jack Vance
The most entertaining discourse on the subject of revenge and justice short of Kill Bill. Relentless, interplanetary fun along the Gaean Reach with Kirth Gersen and the women he loves and doesn't love. So funny you're still laughing when you start crying, and probably vice versa. Ranks with Vance's finest cultural, social, and moral investigations.
47. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The simplest and oldest of science fiction conceits: a boy is raised at war to save his people.
46. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
A marvelous explanation of world history as pieces of a larger puzzle. Incredibly erudite and incidentally educational.
45. Alastor by Jack Vance
Three vast and inspiring novels on the theme of utopia. The first has an astonishing setting and Vance's favorite invented game: hussade. The second of the two is a comedy of manners to set you up for the last, Wyst, which is every bit as moving and disturbing as the best utopian fiction, and with a more satisfying result.
44. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Invasion is a classic human story, because of the likelihood that it will happen in our lifetime.
43. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Math and science are close bedfellows, but it is hard to inscribe such arcane pleasures in the guise of fiction. Abbott solved that difficult riddle marvelously.
42. Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
His only novel to take place on Ganymede, Jupiter's Moon. It presents incredible understanding of every subject it approaches, first and foremost that of a child growing up into an adult.
41. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The drug culture never had a better advocate and enemy than Philip K. Dick. Great movie, too.
40. Animal Farm by George Orwell
Above all, a very funny book about the intransigence of people to live correctly.
39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
An incomparable marvel of high and low humor, left and right galaxies. The sequels didn't have as much promise, but Adams always clued you in on the joke.
38. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
His own novel about what men become in war. Very discursive for the time and full of knowing insights.
37. Lyonesse by Jack Vance
A hilarious and exciting fantasy set in the Elder Isles, which sank into the Atlantic Ocean. The series is enchanting beyond anything else in the genre. The middle of the first book provides a vicious shock unique to Vance's distinctive patterning of individuals.
36. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The first military adventure to grip us by our lapels and inform on exactly what war was, why it was waged, and how to go about waging it without losing your soul. As always, the enemy must be nameless and unthinking, until the enemy is no longer as threatening as the thought of continued war.
35. True Names by Vernor Vinge
Vinge's story basically described what would happen when diverse intelligence connected with each other on the internet. He was right about almost everything, and no one had really thought of this before, so the story has retained a certain flair even though Vinge was still improving as a writer of fiction.
34. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Time travel has gotten so stale that J.J. Abrams plans to use it on all of his TV shows. Dick shows J.J. how it's really done, with plenty of personalities and jawdropping moments in time and space. He never had quite this much fun again.
33. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Man's conquest of the stars is inevitable; Simmons detailed some of the potential complexities with such an arrangement. Hyperion is a wondrous and incantatory setting for some of the best words per entertainment science fiction has ever seen. A wild and amazing ride.
32. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
Besides its many virtues as a narrative, it is among the finest pieces of anti-slavery prose written by a white man. Heinlein's concerns are many: the rise of poverty, the existence of nationalism and prejudice, the vagaries of wealth. He concentrates them all in this modest tale about a slave bought at an auction by a particularly free-thinking individual, and raised across the stars.
31. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
This was a book for children? I still remember the first confusing words of A Wrinkle in Time, proof that I was not alone in the universe. How they teach this book to young people is beyond me. Even now, mysteries arise and emerge out of each tesseract made real. A book still ahead of its time.
30. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
Both an immensely moving epic and a hilarious commentary on the primitive stages of the Internet, Vinge created two amazing alien spieces and never lost track of the personal in a world where gods appear out of the Beyond.
29. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
He was just never bad, and here he was at his immortal best with an examination of the interconnections between all that is and will be. A true classic with fantasy undertones. Like most masterpieces, its straddling of genre is part of the charm.
28. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
What happens to homo sapiens after we die on the inevitable altar of natural selection?
27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The idea that anyone who destroys knowledge is a sinister creature is directly related to this novel, and it has guided many estate lawyers.
26. 1984 by George Orwell
As a ripping good read, it's slow and methodical in parts. Its ideas are so clearly subsumed within our culture that it seems funny to think that really this was a utopian fantasy of serious horror. If this book didn't exist, we'd still be waiting for someone to write it.
25. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Matheson's version of the vampire apocalypse, it is a far deeper mix in print, and funny, too.
24. The Cadwal Chronicles by Jack Vance
Like much of Vance's work, its ostensible subject is the ownership of everything. Cadwell is a secluded planet as nature observatory where a class of elites dominates the undermen Yips. In three volumes it approaches titanic questions philosophical and strategic, and dispenses with them for the fun of revenge and the purity of moral action. Wayness Tamm is among fiction's great heroines.
23. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
The gorgeous, austere fantasy classic that inspired a generation. Lost Horizon is about coming to terms with the limits of your own life.
22. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
So much of what we think is unusual flows from this book.
21. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Fantasy as a triumph granted to us upon crossing of worlds.
20. The Fifth Head of Cerebus by Gene Wolfe
The greatest novella ever written in any genre, this is Wolfe's tribute to Proust, and these two crazy planets are a lot more interesting than upper-caste France. Also one of the great mysteries written in English. Thank God for Gene Wolfe.
19. A Song of Ice And Fire by George R.R. Martin
With Martin 1100 pages into the fifth book, what better time to revisit a deep and complex epic than before its HBO premiere?
18. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The simplest science fiction story infused with the basic tenets of Heinlein's philosophy of free love. The best alien ever makes you want to taser E.T. until he stops his weird relationships with young boys.
17. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Awe-inspiring scope that never falters or is intimidated by the wild fantasy. More real and telling about humanity than The Great Gatsby.
16. The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The finest non-Orwell repudation of communism packaged in a wild novel that rises above doctrine, creed, or power.
15. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
His conceptually fascinating contradiction of Triumph of the Will. Only Dick could turn something so natural and simple into the darkest of mysteries.
14. All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman
Most books have some things, but this book has everything. Haldeman's underappreciated masterpiece is begging to be a big budget film, but for now it's available whenever you want to leave this world, and go beyond it. The best presentation of mystery in the genre since Edgar Allen Poe.
13. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
It has been the major influence of many horrible things, but also many wonderful things. Where it leans on frivolity and wishful thinking, it is forgiven. It's really hard to read these today with how far things have come, but an important effort at the time.
12. Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance
The greatest series of adventure novels ever written. Real thrills that come from Vance's immaculate ear, revolutionary style, and deftness with plot. The most fun you can have with books.
11. Dune by Frank Herbert
Why is this arcane tale of sand people such potent fodder? It is at once a brilliant retelling of the destruction of the Earth and a cipher for all our wants and deepest desires. Herbert's supreme achievement is a bit dated today, but still brilliantly structured and legendary.
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
We've all seen the Kubrick movie, which captures this brand of madness better than most films. The subject of violence in our culture gets short shrift because artists opine against it constantly. Thus genre can encompass what traditional fiction cannot.
9. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Her Hainish cycle is full of vastly different works, but the strange people of Winter are an unforgettable brew. LeGuin is the supreme master of how we belong to our cultures more than our institutions. Her descriptions of intercourse among the native peoples are among the most startling in all of history. Incredibly, she would go on to top this perfect novel.
8. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Jack Vance's Dying Earth was a comedy of errors; Severian's tale is a tragedy beyond measure. Wolfe basically rewrites Earth's languages and culture until they look unrecognizably familiar. Close to perfect as a series of four can get.
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The theme of utopia is never properly done for obvious reasons. Huxley built on other's shoulders to ask all the right questions. In doing so, he raised his subject matter above its usual weaknesses and infused it with a new point of view, the objective of any truly great piece of literature.
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
She came first, and there was no better. Even today, Frankenstein is no more than a mere afternoon's reading, but it raises questions that never stop being summoned by the recesses of the modern mind. Maybe the only myth that truly matters.
5. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
It is the hardened tale of revolution in a strange and sacred place. As far as contemporary fantasies go, it has to look up on no other. Awesome sorcery, staggering statesmanship, perfect action and characterization. A nearly perfect novel.
4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
How do we live with each other without breaking our societies apart? LeGuin took the two sister planets concept to unbelievable heights. Shevek's tale is possibly the only one that matters, and I won't be shocked if it inspires a religion and saves us all at some point down the road.
3. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Vance picked up this world again in the early 1980s with the masterful Cugel's Saga and finished it off with Rhialto the Marvellous. Along with the original eponymous volume and quite easily the greatest fantasy sequence ever devised in The Eyes of the Overworld, these books provide everything of what we seek from literature: wry humour, great sorrow, masterful prose and dialogue, and intricately beautiful plotting.
2. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Science fiction and fantasy have played roughly equal part in this list, but there is a fantasy element to Heinlein's ultimate masterpiece that rises above the rest. Heinlein imagines a world both breaktakingly real and manifestly impossible. He makes us care more deeply about unliving things that never existed than the people in our own lives. This is the import of fantasy. Then you have that the story of Mike and Wyoh and his friends builds on technology...geology...physics...politics...human rights. There is no subject that is not more enriched by this text's understanding of it.
1. The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe wrote these four novels in one incredible gasp. The series begins with the quiescent Nightside the Long Sun, where we are brought to Viron, the place of all our deepest hopes and desires. Like any great tale, it begins in the darkest poverty and ends in it. Three more books follow, each more entrancing and mystifying than the last. The Book of the Long Sun is really one novel, Wolfe's rewriting of the generation starship theme for modern readers. Wolfe is a Catholic — he converted when he married his wife — and his convictions are colorfully borne, yielding lessons for atheist and the most indoctrinated among us. Naturally, our protagonist is a man of considerable faith. Wolfe's imaginings are more real to me now than many actual events, managing to mercilessly strip ourselves of what we believe it is to be human until all that is left is our humanity.
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording. He is a writer living in Manhattan, and he tumbls here.
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The old ways of building datacentres do not deliver 'bang for buck' and power consumption efficiency, according to CDC managing director, Greg Boorer.
The traditional way of building datacentres is flawed, inefficient from an energy conservation perspective and won't deliver 'bang-for-buck', according to Canberra Data Centres (CDC) managing director, Greg Boorer.
He was giving a presentation at the DPSA's Datacentre Carbon Tax: Are you prepared? event last week.
With the Federal Government's promising to impose a carbon price on big emitters such as power companies, the flow on effect will impact datacentre operations by the way of cost passed through power consumption.
There has yet to be a definitive pricing structure set for the carbon tax.
Boorer said a datacentre had an average lifespan of 18 years and the real estate it sits on is generally a 20-year bet with the banks. The curve ball here is with technology changing so rapidly, the equipment in that facility could be made obsolete in the short space of three years.
"Scary thing if you're going to invest upwards of $100 million dollars into a piece of real estate," Boorer said. "What chance have I got to be able to build the datacentre that is going to be fit for purpose in the next three to twenty years when I'll just be recovering my $100 million dollars?
"Traditional models have failed miserably in this way."
He was referring to the practice of building a massive datacentre which will take 10 years to fill, during which it operates inefficiently and does not provide a good return on capital.
This model also stifles the ability for clients to grow within a datacentre, Boorer said.
He recommended datacentres to build small and build often as one of the remedies to problems brought about by traditional models. That is, to build once and build often with modular designs for sustained growth which can extend the overall lifecycle of the facility to about 60 years.
"We build a series of mini datacentres within a datacentre and each is customised on a workload basis," he said. "This means closer coupling and integration between underlying cooling and power infrastructures with the ICT workload it has to support."
By adopting a best practice design such utilising virtualisation and reassessment of power equipments, it is possible to reduce electrical consumption significantly, according to Boorer.
The Carbon Tax is expected to be implemented by 1 July 2012. Finer details of the plan have yet to be announced.


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March 1, 2007
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara women's tennis team dominated San Jose State University Thursday, earning a 7-0 win at the Degheri Tennis Center. The win clinched the Rivalry Series for SCU for the fifth year in a row. The team has now won two straight matches to even its record at 3-3 for the season.
Stephanie Galainena began the sweep of the singles matches with her 6-1, 6-2 win in the No. 6 position. Closely following was Casey Knutson at No. 1 with 6-1, 6-1 straight set victory. At No. 2, Myra Davoudi played a difficult match, finally defeating Ashley Tavita 7-5, 6-0. Kim Daniel claimed her win at No. 3 winning both sets. After losing the first set 6-1, Lindsay McBride made an amazing recovery at No. 3 to take the next two sets 6-3, 6-4. Closing out the day's matches was Erika Barnes, who earned a point at No. 5 with a victory of 6-4, 6-2. Daniel, Barnes and Galainena all won their second straight singles matches and Daniel is now 5-1 this spring in dual matches.
In doubles, Erik Barnes and Casey Knutson started the Broncos off to a good start, claiming their No. 1 victory 8-4. Galainena and McBride kept up the pace at No. 2 with an 8-4 win, clinching the doubles point. Rounding up the doubles matches, Daniel and Davoudi claimed the No. 3 spot with an 8-5 win.
The Broncos resume West Coast Conference play next Wednesday, March 7 when they go up against Loyola Marymount at Santa Clara at 2:30 p.m. On Saturday, March 10, Santa Clara takes on Long Beach State at Long Beach starting at 11:00 a.m.
Santa Clara def. San Jose State 7-0
1. SCU Erika Barnes/Casey Knutson def. SJSU Amber Silverstone/Ashley Tavita 8-4
2. SCU Sephanie Galainena/Lindsay McBride def. SJSU Courtney Koenigsfeld/Rokie Larijani 8-4
3. SCU Kim Daniel/Myra Davoudi def. SJSU Silvia Dukic/Dana Popescu 8-5
1. SCU Casey Knutson def. SJSU Amber Silverstone 6-1, 6-1
2. SCU Myra Davoudi def. SJSU Ashley Tavita 7-5, 6-0
3. SCU Lindsay McBride def. SJSU Courtney Koenigsfeld 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
4. SCU Kim Daniel def. SJSU Silvana Dukic 6-1, 6-4
5. SCU Erika Barnes def. SJSU Sanda Hadzisabic 6-4, 6-2
6. SCU Stephanie Galainena def. SJSU Dana Popescu 6-2, 6-1


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