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Veterinarians in Fayette County, KY
Comprehensive list of Fayette County, Kentucky based veterinary clinics and animal hospitals offering advanced medical diagnostics or pet treatment. Find a veterinarian for your dog, cat or other pet.
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In addition, we provide CO2 Laser surgery & a Therapeutic Laser which is our latest techonology for pain management Two Veterinary Assistants live on site to monitor hospitalized pets. Our full time, trained Veterinary Assistants and Receptionists work closely with the Doctors to ensure thorough, personable services for you.
AA Small Animal Emergency Service was set up in 1980 to supply after hour emergency a nd critical care medicine for pets of central Kentucky. Many veterinarians thoughout the Lexington area are affiliated with our clinic. We have experienced veterinarians and veterinary nurses on duty at all hours.
Our focus is best quality veterinary care of the cat. We understand how important our patients are to their families. We nurture that relationship by helping our patients live long, healthy, and comfortable lives. For us, that means keeping you informed and educated about what you can do to make your cat's life a healthier and happier one.
For more than 130 years, Hagyard veterinarians have dedicated themselves to the health and well-being of the horse. Hagyard Pharmacy plays a vital and unique role in the continuum of that superior care at Hagyard. Its mission remains to endeavor in all ways possible to supply only the highest in optimal horse healthcare.
Maintaining the health and well-being of animals using integrative therapy which combines both Eastern and Western medicine. Acupuncture has been practiced on humans in China for more than 4,500 years. The 1st use of acupuncture on animals can be traced to the western Jin dynasty period of China from 136 to 265 A.D. Studies have shown that acupuncture can increase blood flow, lower heart rate and improve
I'm Dr. Tim Gravatte and I have been a tiny animal veterinarian practicing in the Lexington area for over fourteen years. I founded The Mobile Vet Waggin' in October of 2004 to supply quality and compassionate veterinary care in a convenient manner. I have the capability to supply customers with complete service tiny animal veterinary care in a mobile setting.
The Clays Mill Veterinary Clinic welcomes you to our website. Since 1968, Dr. Robert C. Lynch and his team have been here to cover the community of Lexington and central Kentucky by delivering superb healthcare for your pets. Dr. Craig J. Blair, with CMVC since 1995, and Dr. Melanie Blair, with CMVC since 1999, are now partnered with Dr. Lynch and are dedicated to continuing the tradition that Dr.
- Dr. Melanie Blair is a wonderful vet. I wouldn't take my animals to anyone else (except
The Animal Care Clinic offers animal community emergency veterinary services in addition to state-of-the-art medical, surgical, and dental veterinary care. Because we currently have an in-house pharmacy, lab, radiology facilities, and Intensive Care Unit, our facility allows you to make one stop for your pet's medical care. We are open for appointments during normal business hours, evenings, and Saturdays.
Our hospital supplies quality service with a friendly team at realistic prices. You expect the finest for your pet, and that is exactly what we provide at Noah's Ark Animal Hospital. We have made a dedication to supply the most caring and compassionate medical care for your pet. Give us a call for additional information about our hospital and services.
Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital is a complete-service equine hospital set up in 1986 as a referral center for horses requiring specialized medical and surgical care. Today Rood & Riddle is known and respected throughout the world for innovative and fully qualified treatment of horses.
We're a complete-service veterinary medical facility, situated in downtown Nicholasville, Kentucky. Our mission is to supply the highest possible medical, surgical, and dental care to area pets. Bill McCaw started practicing in Jessamine County in 1974 and was joined by his son William McCaw in 2001. Elizabeth W. Banks joined the practice in 2007 to complete our three doctor staff.
Our aims for this site are focused on enhancing the services we supply to our customers and their animals. We have some very exciting features in store for our customers as well everybody on the web. We will keep you informed about this site and Woodford Veterinary Clinic.
- This clinic has been my family vet since I was a kid, and is my vet when my Corgis are
It is our mission to supply prompt, professional veterinary care while providing a best quality equine surgical and medical facility. We have customers from all over the US as well as internationally from Canada, Great Britain, Sweden and Australia. We value the trust that they have put in us and aim to continue to suit their veterinary requirements with the best quality.
We accept the responsibility of effectively communicating the requirements of the pet to its owner in order to increase the quality and length of the pet's life. We will help all of our customers in choosing a pet, the proper feeding and training of their pet, preventing and treating illnesses, caring for it as it ages and eventually how to say goodbye.
At Commonwealth Animal Hospital, our mission is to promote the human-animal bond by delivering exceptional veterinary health care and genuine heartfelt compassion to our patients, as well as outstanding service to our customers so that each visit is productive, informative, and pleasing to both patient and customer.
Our 2nd location and the area's 1st 24hr veterinary clinic is NOW OPEN! After six years of delivering affordable quality care at the Waco Animal Hospital, Dr. Jim Martin and his wife Dinah have opened a 2nd location that is now delivering 24hr care in a convenient location just off Interstate 75 at Exit 90.
I've been a veterinarian since 1979, graduating from the Auburn School of Veterinary Medicine. I have been practicing in the Danville area since 1981. I opened the Animal Medical Center in May 1999.. Tracie Morgan was a veterinarian technician for 13 years before graduating from the University of Tennessee in 2004. She has been a D.V.M. at Animal Medical Center since Spring, 2004..
Animal Care Center has been delivering veterinary services in Stanford Kentucky since 1969. Our goal is to supply quality medical and surgical care in a compassionate environment. We are sensitive to the care and concern that each customer brings to our practice for his or her pet. We serve the requirements of our customers and their pets with competent team.
East Shelbyville Animal Clinic is a full-service animal clinic whose goal is to offer the highest standard of veterinary care for pets. We offer friendly, informative, and supportive services for you and your pet, while keeping an excellent working environment for our team.
- Dr. Taylor has taken care of several of our dogs and operated on two of them. She is great
Finchville Animal Hospital provides a complete service veterinary hospital catering to tiny animal and equine care. Our office boasts a very knowledgeable, warm, and friendly team with a clean and inviting environment. We provide separate rooms for dogs and cats, as well as a separate intensive care area for animals.


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The Unist'ot'en has a new website to replace this one. From now on you can visit us at
See you there!!
The Unist'ot'en has a new website to replace this one. From now on you can visit us at
See you there!!
As a prelude to our national day of action coming up this Saturday, allies
went around the Financial District of Toronto this morning to deliver a
message to Chevron investors State Street and Vanguard. We let them know
that we will hold them accountable for Chevron's actions if they attempt
to trespass on sovereign Unist'ot'en land.
Video and photos are forthcoming on our website, but in the meantime you
can help amplify our message by sending an email to the following staff at
these two companies. The Vanguard office was particularly rude and the
receptionist actually pushed our letter out of the office with her foot.
Please write to them and let you them know you support the Unist'ot'en
right to Free Prior and Informed Consent regarding industrial activity on
their land and that if they do not want to lose a pile of money on a
pipeline that will never be build they should cancel Chevron's Pacific
Trail Pipeline.
Unist'ot'en Camp
State Street And Vanguard Contact Emails:
Atul Tiwari, Director of Vanguard Group: email@example.com
Jason McIntyre, Distribution; firstname.lastname@example.com
Catherine M. Chamberlain, Compliance, legal:
Carrie Tuck, Marketing: email@example.com
Dean Allen, Product Management:email@example.com
Kevin Drynan, CEO of State Street: email@example.com
Peter Lindley, VP, Investment Management: firstname.lastname@example.com
Gaetan Reid, VP Foreign Exchange: email@example.com
Charles Murray, VP, Securities Finance: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ron Robertson, Senior VP: firstname.lastname@example.com
Call for solidarity actions on Saturday March 30th 2013
No consent? No fracking pipelines, no climate crimes!
Join an action in your local area
Calgary – March 30th, 1pm, Meet at 5th Ave and 4th St SW (Chevron Canada HQ)
Montreal – March 30th, 1pm, 770 Sherbrooke Street West (Across the street from the McGill Roddick Gates)
Smithers – March 30th 1:00pm, meet at the Old Church, 3704 1st Avenue
Toronto – March 28th, 8:30am, RBC Headquarters, Bay and Front.
Vancouver/Burnaby – March 30th, 12pm, corner of Albert St. and Willingdon (Burnaby)
Resources http://calamites.resist.ca/?page_id=198
American oil giant Chevron wants to build a destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate catastrophe cliff edge.
Chevron is the new corporate face of the Pacific Trail Pipeline project, having recently become 50/50 partners with Apache to build a fracking gas pipeline across 500 kilometres of largely unceded land, from Summit Lake to LNG plants planned for Kitimat. On March 30th we will greet them with resistance across BC and around the world. As politicians put economic growth and industry interests ahead of carbon common sense and indigenous rights, it is up to us to take direct action to raise the cost of pushing ahead with the project, and raise the stakes in the PR battle. We encourage autonomous creative direct action against Chevron and any others involved in the development and financing of Pacific Trail Pipeline. Occupy offices, drop banners, demonstrate in city centres, lock-on at the pumps, subvert the Chevron brand, hand out leaflets… the choice is yours!
Everywhere they operate, Chevron exploits land and people for money, often through the use of force, and without taking responsibility for the consequences. Battles against environmental racism and illegal oil wars, movements for indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice – we amplify our resistance by uniting our struggles, so we are calling for solidarity actions and events against Chevron across Canada and around the world.
Unist'ot'en Camp is looking for volunteers to come and help us construct pithouses and install interconnected permaculture gardens in the territory at our Spring Camp. The Spring Camp is for 3 weeks and the dates are May 6-24, 2013.
This initiative is complimenting our vision to build a larger community on the lands and occupy areas left in our trust. Preference will be to people who have experience with permaculture (i.e. Bio-remidiation, …) for the garden and construction experience with our pithouses and trails. We may need some help with the kitchen as well. There will likely be many applicants for the kitchen duty so we may have to be selective to keep the numbers of people in the kitchen reasonable
If you are interested, please fill out a volunteer form at http://forestaction.wikidot.com/caravan! Informants, infiltrators, and agitators need not apply – you all know who you are!!! We will try and keep up with the applicants.
Suggested donation $200 or PWYC to help cover costs of food at camp. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
The Unist'ot'en winter fundraising drive on Indie Go Go is nearing the halfway mark, and we are halfway to our goal! Thanks everyone for the support, and let's kick things into high gear so we can get the rest of the way to our goal! The campaign will help ensure the camp has funds to keep operating through the winter and keep out pipeline companies from our sovereign unceded territory!
Visit the Campaign Home Page to Donate Today! http://igg.me/p/299143/x/1955240
Wet'suwet'en at Moricetown Protesting Pipelines on December 6, 2012 from terracedailyonline on Vimeo.
"This is a 40 minute edited compilation of Chiefs and Matriarchs demanding respect and demanding the pipeline considerations come to a full stop. The demands were expressed as, "When we say no, we mean no, when will you understand this?"
The considerations of money ie "Impact benefits" were not accepted and were considered an insult. The land is not for sale at any price."
Dini Ze'yu, Tsakiy Ze'yu, Skiy Ze'yu, and our countless supporters! I am glad to report that a real victory for our future has just happened!! Last night our strong community membership decidedly showed who makes the decisions on unceded Wet'suwet'en lands to the elected Moricetown Band Chief and Band Council. The Band Council had called an "Information Session" and invited representatives from PTP First Nations Limited Partnership (FNLP). The meeting was repeatedly interrupted by hereditary chiefs and clan members who bravely spoke their minds and made statements about protecting the lands. During the meeting one of the elected councillors decided to be arrogant and demand that the members be quiet to hear out the representatives. He said that we needed to be respectful of our guests. But the millions of dollars that was dangled in front of the membership in potential partnership agreements meant nothing to the community. Throughout the meeting the resounding message voiced in anger was, "WE WILL PROTECT OUR LANDS AND WATERS AGAINST ANY AND ALL THREATS! IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILTY!! WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE TO US IS DISPRESPECTFUL!"
The Unist'ot'en interrupted the meeting and Unist'ot'en spokesperson Freda Huson read out their Declaration to the pawns of PTP and said that the only people who will be making any decisions on Unist'ot'en Lands are the Unist'ot'en People. Tsakiy Ze' Lhtat'en of the Unist'ot'en said to the Band Council and presenters, "Knedebeas – Christine Holland told us not to lose the land. The Unist'ot'en have never lost any of our battles, and we won't lose this one!!" As Freda Huson began reading a declaration to the presenters and band council, large banners were unfurled warning against pipelines on the territory and the 'Ewkh hiyah hoz dli Drum Group began singing the powerful Wet'suwet'en War Song and performing the ancient War Dance in front of the elected council and presenters. The spirits of our Warriors could not be stopped. The War Song is likely still echoing in the hallways of the Moricetown Multiplex. At the end of the presentation there was a time set aside for questions but the council and presenters only heard statement after statement from the membership, "NO MEANS NO!" The meeting was abruptly put to a halt and the presenters from the FNLP quickly packed up and left denying the media in attendance any comments or interviews. Sne Kyalh Yah (Thank you) to all of our friends and family for attending and standing strong alongside our proud and strong ancestors. The future of our unborn is in your hands, let's all keep making them proud!! – Toghestiy of the Likhts'amisyu & Freda Huson, spokesperson for the Unist'ot'en

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You already know that achieving a linear speedup as the number of cores increases in real life parallelized applications is indeed very difficult. However, sometimes, the multicore scalability of certain algorithms for existing multicore systems could be worse than expected. The overhead and the bugs introduced by concurrency could bring really unexpected scalability problems when the number of cores increases. Intel can help you with its Parallel Universe Portal, a free service in the cloud.
You don't have access to a system with an Intel Xeon X5560 CPU running at a maximum clock speed of 2.80 GHz and offering 8 Hyperthreaded physical cores (16 logical cores, 16 hardware threads). However, you want to test the multicore scalability for an algorithm as the number of cores increases, up to 16 logical cores. If your application is written in C++, you can compile it in 32-bits to run on Windows and the total time needed to run it using 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 logical cores in less than 1 minute, you can use the new scalability service offered by Intel Parallel Universe Portal. If you already own a system with 16 logical cores, you can skip this post.
It is very easy to use this new service. You just have to follow a few steps and you'll be able to check the multicore scalability of your application up to 16 logical cores. I'm going to explain you how to use this service step-by-step.
Create an application without the need of user interaction. Make the necessary changes to make sure your application will try to use as many logical cores as available in the underlying hardware. This way, you'll be able to test its multicore scalability. Once you obtain the first results, you will be able to make the necessary changes to test other specific scenarios.
If the application needs additional files or DLLs, copy all the necessary files to a new folder and create a ZIP file including the EXE file and all these additional files. For example, if the application is myparallelapp.exe and it needs the libiomp5md.dll DLL, your ZIP file should include both files. So far, the service doesn't support .NET applications, they must be unmanaged Windows C++ apps.
Enter Intel Parallel Universe Portal, login with your account, and click on Start Here.
Enter a name to identify your session. Click on the Upload button, choose the previously created ZIP file and the file will begin uploading, as in Figure 1:
Click on the Next button. It is time to configure your job. You have to select the command line to run, the executable file and the arguments, as in Figure 2:
You can leave the arguments textbox blank if the application doesn't need arguments. Click on the Next button. The Web site will offer a summary with the session name, the uploaded zip file name and the command line to run. You have to check whether everything is specified as expected, as in Figure 3:
If everything is okay, you have to click on the Submit button. This way, the job will enter in a queue. The Web page will show your job and it will refresh the information about it. However, you can also wait for an e-mail with information about your job. If something goes wrong, you'll receive an e-mail with a link to a Web page with more information about the errors. The most common problem is that the application can take more than 1 minute to run with all the different configurations. As aforementioned, there's a 1 minute time limit. The other usual problem is an unsatisfied dependency, like a missing DLL that the application needs to run. Remember to include everything your app needs in the ZIP file. The error report usually includes the name of the unsatisfied dependencies.
If the application could run without problems using 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 logical cores in less than 1 minute, you'll receive an e-mail with a link to a Web page with an easy to understand scalability report. The report offers both tables and graphs with the following information for the different number of logical cores used:
- The elapsed time in seconds.
- The average concurrency.
The following picture shows part of the report created by a job with easy to detect multicore scalability problems. As you can see, the application takes less time to run when it moves from 1 to 2 logical cores. However, when it runs with 4, 8, and 16 logical cores, there's no speedup. In fact, when it tries to take advantage of 16 logical cores, its performance is really bad.
The application has a very important multicore scalability problem. It cannot achieve significant speedups when the number of cores is greater than 2. Besides, it introduces a very big overhead when the number of cores is 16. There is a very important overhead to work with 16 logical cores and the parallelized algorithms are taking more time than the time needed to complete the mission with just one logical core. Believe me; this situation is more common than expected. Redesigning serial algorithms in order to take advantage of multicore is a complex task. Redesigning them in order to scale as the number of cores is greater than 4 is even a more complex task. The manycore challenge is round the corner.
Besides, the report offers two additional graphs with the following information for the different number of logical cores used:
- The performance improvement, considering the time taken to complete the job with the different number of logical cores.
- The throughput scalability, explaining how the throughput scales as the number of logical cores increases.
Figure 5 shows the two graphs generated by the same job with multicore scalability problems. As you can see, the application increases both performance and throughput when it moves from 1 to 2 logical cores. However, when it runs with 4, 8, and 16 logical cores, throughput scalability decreases. The performance improvement graph shows two lines, a black line with the actual time needed to run the job with the different number of logical cores and a red line with the optimal time. In this case, the actual time needed to run the application with 16 logical cores is around 600 times the optimal time.
As you can see, the reports are very easy to understand. This application is not able to scale beyond 2 logical cores.
For more information, you can read also check Intel Parallel Universe Portal Forums
You can also read Beware of Those That Claim Linear Performance Increases by Markus Levy.
If you want to use virtualization to test multicore scalability, you can read Using VirtualBox 3.0 Virtualization Software to Measure Multicore Scalability.


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Namco Bandai Games America hosted a preview of its 2009 holiday game releases at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles to a steady stream of press eager to try them out.
I made straight for the Katamari demo. In Japan, the game is called a tribute version and promises to please all its fans with new variations on all the old favorites. That's not to say there's nothing new. There are more choices of game play modes and you also can choose the look completely, opting for a comic book graphic style, a wood block style, or of course, the classic style. All is presented with the same off-beat collection of objects and whimsical humor of the Katamari brand.
Version 2 of this popular game for the Wii console now lets both guys as well as gals cheer. The game uses 2 Wii remotes, one in each hand, and asks you to do ever more complicated moves to a brand new soundtrack of licensed hit songs. This is a game and it's also a workout. You have to really commit to moving your body, swinging your arms in full circles, reaching and turning in rhythm. The game sets up each move with a moving arrow and then you have to follow the direction set in time with a star that traces the same lines. It sounds simple. It looks simple. But it is a real brain workout along with a body workout.
This latest in the Soulcalibur franchise is a game exclusively for the PSP and includes Kratos, a character from Sony's "God of War" franchise as a guest character. This fighting game has many returning characters as well as some new ones. There is a new single-player mode to develop player reflexes and fighting skill. Plus there is almost limitless character customization in the game for players who want to create their own fighting figure.
This RPG is only for the Xbox 360® and features beautiful graphics in a mythic setting and uses a combination of turn-based battle with real-time game play for a unique game experience. The graphic style is a kind of photo realism with manga-style influences and aims, with fully voiced dialogue, to draw players into a completely immersive gaming experience. The game is designed to be seamless, with no load screens or abrupt changes in action when a battle ends. For players who like mastering moves, there are special attacks and the fighting style shifts with every change of weapon.
This is a mature crime fighting game for the PS3 and Xbox 360 that follows vice cop Jack Slate and his dog, Shadow, as they fight the underworld excesses in a crumbling city. Players can take control not only of Jack but of Shadow as various points in the game in both weapon and hand-to-hand combat. The game introduces a new hybrid combat system that aims to put the full range of action that a real life law enforcement officer would have into the player's hands. Gritty, violent, and bloody, this game is beautifully dark but not for everyone.
DRAGON BALL - versions for the PS3, XBOX and DS
Namco Bandai has two different versions of this game based on the popular anime series. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for the PS3 and XBox is a fighting game that allows you to play one of over 70 of the characters from the entire series against each other. This is a great game for beginners and young gamers who like fighting games because of the simplicity of the moves. Some fighting games require elaborate button combinations to execute the special moves and powerups. Here, the combos are streamlined so that new or young players can get real pleasure from their matches.
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for the DS is a turn based RPG which again means that the game does not depend on complicated button patterns to play. Instead, you configure your team as best you can and then watch as it plays out. There are never-before-seen storylines that reveal secrets of the Dragon Ball universe and sub-missions where players can collect special items for special rewards.
Active Life: Extreme Challenge for the Wii lets you play extreme sports without the extreme danger. The game comes with a floor mat that lets you engage in full-body workouts. It is amazing just how quickly the game gets your heart pumping. Even something as simple as jumping rope, which can seem like a kiddie no-brainer, is actually a super cardio workout. The game also lets you play in direct competition with friends without the need of an extra pad. If you select a head-to-head game, the pad allows you each to use half of the pad each so that the feeling of competing is direct and immediate.
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Thirty-one years ago, Morenci students Pam (Brown) Clifford and Jill (Barrett) Brown helped the Bulldogs win a state championship in girls track.
Earlier this month, it was their daughters' turn to win medals at the state meet.
The women both reside in the East Grand Rapids school district and their daughters teamed up to win the Div. II 3200-meter relay race.
Jill's daughter Nikki is a 2007 graduate. Randi Brown and Brianna Clifford recently finished their freshman year.
The girls didn't just win a state championship; they also set a new school record of 9:29.
School records are nothing new for the two mothers. They set numerous records when they ran for Morenci.
Before you say anything about track being fairly new as a girls sport in 1976, and of course records were being set left and right, consider this: Pam Brown's name is still in the Morenci record book for three events and Jill Barrett still appears twice. Those were records for the ages.
Pam's school-record 5-foot-7 high jump at the state tournament is the event that gave Morenci the championship—it's the only girls track title in more than 30 years.
In an interview in the Grand Rapids Press, the mothers were asked if they've put any pressure on their daughters to carry on the tradition.
"Not at all," Pam said. "It's been fun to see them take it up."
Jill added that her parents, Jim and Pat Barrett, get a kick out of watching their granddaughters on the track.
"They say it's just like when Pam and I were running."


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Update: Analysts have been on Google's back for over a year about how the search engine would make money from its YouTube video-sharing site.
Video ads were the obvious direction for Google, but while the company hones its video ad-serving methods, YouTube Oct. 8 launched an e-commerce platform to sell music and games from Apple's iTunes store and Amazon.com. Talk about misdirection. Google just bent us like Beckham. But don't call YouTube YouBay or Youmazon just yet.
In the first iteration of the platform, YouTube is selling music downloads and games through deals with the iTunes store and Amazon.com. These will appear as "click-to-buy," or retail links on the watch page beneath the video.
YouTube users watching music videos will be able to click on buttons that link to the corresponding pages on iTunes and Amazon MP3 where they can buy and download music, which totals roughly 15 million songs and comes from EMI Music and other companies. There will also be Amazon.com product links to the video game Spore on videos from Electronic Arts.
YouTube said in a statement that the YouTube eCommerce Platform will be rolled out on a larger scale over the coming months to allow partners from film, TV and publishing to generate revenue from their content beyond the advertising Google sells against their videos, which is hardly a cash cow.
Click here to read about Gmail's latest fun, frivolous feature: Mail Goggles.
If you consider the YouTube phenomenon in its entirety, enabling users to purchase products related to the content YouTube is airing makes perfect sense. YouTube is about videos first, sure, but the social experience of sharing and commenting on the content is also important. YouTube officials noted in a blog post:
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""When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it.""
This scenario is not unlike being at a brick-and-mortar music store and sampling tracks from a new release. If you like what you hear, you can go to checkout and buy the CD. With YouTube, you don't have to leave your house; just make a few clicks and it's done.
The YouTube eCommerce Platform is only available in the United States but will roll out internationally in the coming months. Partners who use YouTube's Content ID identification and management system can also enable retail links on videos that they choose to leave up on the site.
YouTube said it will also be experimenting with the user interface to see what works best for the YouTube community.
How well this will do is anyone's guess, but I love the potential, particularly among teens and twenty-somethings who are into checking out videos on YouTube and wondering how to get them because they are "cool" or "popular." Just in time for the Christmas season, too.
But I wonder how the credit crunch and broader Wall Street woes will impact e-commerce spending.
Also, Google CEO Eric Schmidt now has a crutch to use any time someone asks him how video ad serving is faring on YouTube, an issue that must pain him despite comments to the contrary.
Now he can flash e-commerce sales from YouTube. Another thing to consider: What will the interplay be between YouTube's e-commerce provisions and ads?
Will YouTube's e-commerce sales buoy Google's ability to sell ads against YouTube videos? My guess is yes. What do you think?


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Rays 2010 Commercial Lacks "Wow" Factor
But the rapid fire interaction of fans and players in the commercial does go great with the drum line music. See Carl Crawford taking a base away from the opposition, or seeing Even Longoria tee-off on a long ball into Section 146 of Tropicana Field can get me excited for the April 6th game, but what then…What happens after that?
Well, the Rays have a call out to all drum lines in the Tampa Bay area to repeat or bring your own style to the auditions to maybe have your own sound bytes on a future Rays commercial. And over the years we have heard several local groups before Rays games get out there and beat their drum skins and mix music with synchronized dancing to the beat. And that is a great thing that the Rays advertising guru's want to reward the music makers of Tampa Bay.
These commercials brought us into the player's realm where we like to feel safe. For some odd reason, the commercials that have featured small segments with either the players in the action, or even Rays Manager Joe Maddon discussing the player, using their nicknames from 2009 brought you closer to the team. But this is the first segment of the Rays trying to get you to come out and experience the Rays carnival atmosphere that will be stage front in 2010.
Sure the many activities will still go on in Rightfield and Leftfield Street before the games, but there are many planned activities besides the Hess Express/Rays Saturday Night Concert Series to gain your attention. Every Friday night there will be a series of fireworks 10 minutes after the game indoors. Now this has been done before in Tropicana Field, but most fans remember it was pre-game, and the smoke decided to stay within Tropicana Field for most of the game that night.
I was hoping the Rays would go the route of the Colorado Rockies who have been producing for years player involved commercials and funny interactions that make each of those players featured more human and extremely approachable. The commercial above was even done about 5 years ago and you can see how the Rockies advertising uses a great dose of humor in their ads to get their fan's attention.
And that has been one of the Rays key thing in the past. They are one of the most approachable teams in the Major Leagues, and the Rays should bank on that popularity and build a further fan base from it. Because the Rays are so easy to get to know and talk to, maybe a commercial where a 10-year old and Carlos Pena talk about life. Or Maybe a moment with a fan where Rays reliever J P Howell teaches a lecture on the physics of the curveball. Humor is a big part of the Rays clubhouse, why not also bring it to the Tampa Bay community in their commercials?
But what do I know. I only minored in Advertising/Marketing in college, so my views might be 25 years old in concept, but then again, they might have good merit. But what I know is the team is striving to gain additional fans into the seat on nights that traditionally have shown a sea of blue seats to television cameras and the Nation on game highlights on ESPN and other media outlets. Maybe the key to getting those fans is to utilize their best natural resource, their players, in more future advertisements.
It is kind of funny, this commercial above was made last season to try and get fans from the Orlando area to attend Rays game, but not sure how that worked out for the Rays. It was a bit boring, but it looked more like a fan produced video, which showed more creativity than some I have seen in recent years.
Both print and visual commercials could be spiced up quickly with plays off of players like B J Upton scaling the wall like Spiderman, or even an old black and white commercial with Zorilla hitting homers into small scale cities. The possibilities are endless if you let your mind wander a bit and think outside the batter's box on this concept.
Not to say tongue-in-cheek humor like that will fill the stands, but it will generate a buzz in the Tampa Bay community, which could easily translate into fans in the seats wanting to see what magic will happen that night….What about you?
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That is interesting since there is only one 2010 commercial listed on the blog.
But I agree, the 2009 Rays commercials and the 2007 Rockies commercial are fantastic.
But the 2010 Rays commercial was a 18 second collage of actions splices and drum beat only….To me, kind if one-dimensional, like Pat Burrell's personality.
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BlackRock revealed on Tuesday that one of its former employees was recently arrested by London police on charges of insider trading.
BlackRock did not name the individual, but Reuters reports it was Mark Lyttleton, who the news service notes was one of the firm's longest serving British-based fund managers. Lyttleton left the company in March and was arrested in April.
Reuters said Lyttleton was one of the people to whom Britain's Financial Conduct Authority referred on May 3, when it said it had arrested and questioned a man and a woman on April 30 in West London.
A second source with knowledge of the matter said the woman who was arrested was Lyttleton's wife, but did not give her name.
"The FCA has informed us that the allegations relate to actions carried out for personal gain, while off our premises, and that neither BlackRock, nor any other employee, is under investigation," BlackRock said in a statement on Tuesday. "There is no suggestion that there has been any impact to any of BlackRock's clients."
The arrest is the latest in a string of high-profile apprehensions by the Financial Conduct Authority this year as part of a commitment to crack down harder on insider trading and financial crime.
The news service notes BlackRock announced in March Lyttleton would leave the firm at the end of April, although he actually relinquished his fund management responsibilities in March and has not worked at the firm since March 28.
Lyttleton, most recently manager of BlackRock's UK Dynamic and UK Absolute Alpha funds, traces his career at the firm back more than 20 years. BlackRock said on Tuesday it was continuing to help the authorities with their investigations.
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Spring's Freshwater Fighter
My small Tony spoon with a lip-hooked bull minnow sailed out and landed alongside one of the many fallen trees angling out from the impoundment's shoreline. I let my lure sink next to the tangle of branches for a moment, then lifted the rod tip of my small spin rod and began teasing the bait back.
My line twitched as the minnow resisted. Then, within three or four cranks of my reel handle, I encountered a sudden resistance and set the hook, hard. Water erupted, and an iridescent green flank flashed in the sunlight as a nice chain pickerel threw a conniption fit at the deception it found stuck firmly in its jaw.
The drag on my ultra-light reel zinged out a lively tune as the toothy rascal made its way out to deeper water, the force of its run against my rod actually swinging around the stern of our small dingy. My partner in the bow, Maurice Klein, grabbed our net and kept a sharp eye on the battle. Pickerel are not the sort of fish you can lip-lift into the boat.
Opening day of trophy rockfish season was excellent for many anglers. The winds and rain came late in the day, allowing enough time for most anglers to score some very nice fish.
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The fish broached, sounded, ran again and pulled all sorts of grass pike tricks including heading back toward the tangle of trees where it first got in all this trouble. But it didn't have quite enough gas left to make the trees. After another half-hearted run, it was thrashing about in Moe's net.
Easing the spoon out of the corner of its long, sinister smile, I estimated it at over 18 inches and lowered it back into the chilly water to go about its business. And I breathed a sigh of relief. This was a nice way to start our day in spite of the weather.
We had been hoping for another nice warm spring day to explore one of our favorite Eastern Shore impoundments for some large mouth-bass or perhaps even some early season bluegill. But a cold snap the night before had thrown the success of the trip into doubt. It was quite possible that the sudden onset of the low temps had sent all the residents of this small lake into deep hiding.
But of course pickerel aren't like that. They are energized by cold weather, and today they were happy to provide the kind of attention we were looking for. Continuing to work the shoreline, Mo and I picked off the chain-patterned pirates one after another.
Pickerel has a firm, sweet white flesh, but not many people are willingto put up with the plentitude of tiny bones that network through its flanks. Since few anglers keep the fish, there are usually plenty of the scrappy, freshwater barracudas hanging about just about any structure that affords them an ambush advantage.
A few minutes later Maurice got a smashing hit on his favorite lure, a Pcola Nitty Spoon, and nearly had the rod torn from his hands. A good-sized pike had followed the lure almost back to the boat before it struck. Then it had come up through the surface and threw another water tantrum right next to us.
Many anglers overlook these battling, slim, long-bodied predators. But if you're wanting for action from December all the way up to the summer months, these guys are generally around and eager to give you a scrap.
A live minnow under a bobber is the traditional way to attract their attention, but they will also strike a lure. Small- to medium-sized crank baits in the livelier colors do well on these fish, as do small, flashy spoons. The Mepps Spinner is a particularly deadly pickerel bait, especially if dressed with squirrel tail.
If you've a yen to try these fish on the table, despite their bony reputation, there is a unique cleaning technique that manages to avoid most of what makes boning them a chore. Find it on YouTube by searching Northern Pike fillet videos.
The Northern Pike is identical in body and skeletal structure to the pickerel. You will also find numerous videos for filleting pickerel. But this name is used widely in our more northern states to identify the walleye pike, which has a completely different body style, and those instructions will only confuse the issue.


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B'nai B'rith World Center Announces Winners of 2012 Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage
The B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem has announced that Israeli Channel 2 News reporter Lee Abramovich is the recipient of the 2012 Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportaģe in Memory of Wolf and Hilda Matsdorf. The jury also decided to present foreign correspondent citations to AP correspondent Diaa Hadid and Jana Beris (Jerozolimski), editor of the Uruguayan Jewish weekly Semanario Hebreo.
Abramovich will receive the journalism award for her July 9, 2011, report on Channel 2 News about Orthodox American Jews who make live kidney donations to Israeli patients. The moving report revealed this little-known phenomenon, as well as the donors' motivations and support structure.
AP correspondent Hadid will receive the foreign correspondent citation for her June 18, 2011, article on Tripoli's Jewish community and the remnants of the city's Dar al-Bishi synagogue during Libya's revolution. Uruguayan editor Beris won the citation for her interview with Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, published on March 24, 2011. Semanario Hebreo—edited in Israel and distributed in Uruguay 50 weeks a year—was established in 1960 by Beris' father, Joseph Jerozolimski. When he passed away in 2004, Beris became editor.
Since its establishment in 1992, the B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism has recognized excellence in reportaģe on contemporary Diaspora Jewish communities and on the state of Israel-Diaspora relations today in the Israeli print and electronic media. The award is widely acknowledged in the media industry as the most prestigious prize in its field in Israel. The award ceremony will be held this summer.
Members of the distinguished award jury are: Professor Yehudith Auerbach, head of the Communication and Journalism Studies Division, Bar Ilan University; David Horovitz, former editor-in-chief, Jerusalem Post; Sara Frenkel, Diaspora reporter, Broadcast Authority and Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2002; Shalom Kital, former general director, News Company, Channel 2; Bambi Sheleg, founder and editor-in-chief, Eretz Acheret and award winner for 2011; and Asher Weill, publisher and editor of Ariel, The Israel Review of Arts and Letters (1981-2003).
The B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism is named for the late Wolf Matsdorf, former editor of the B'nai B'rith World Center journal Leadership Briefing and a journalist in Australia and Israel; and his wife, the late Hilda Matsdorf, a pioneer in social work in both Australia and Israel. The award is made possible through donations from the Matsdorf family and from Daniel Schydlowsky, a member of the B'nai B'rith World Center International Board of Governors, with homes in Lima, Peru and Washington, D.C.
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(Reuters) - Boeing(BA.N) faces a public and revealing test of the carbon-composite technology used in the 787 Dreamliner following a fire that broke out aboard one of its planes at London's Heathrow airport.
British investigators say that the Ethiopian Airline's (EAD.PA) lithium-ion batteries likely did not cause Friday's fire, allaying fears about a return of the problem that grounded the Dreamliner for more than three months earlier this year, when one battery caught fire and another overheated.
Wall Street, and passengers, so far appear little concerned: the stock is expected to stabilize on Monday after slipping 4.7 percent on Friday from a near all-time high. Airlines are keeping their 787s in the air and passengers are not canceling trips in Japan, the 787's biggest market.
But the visible scorching on the top rear of the fuselage of the 250-seat plane puts a major innovation of the 787 - its lightweight, carbon-plastic composite construction - under a spotlight with a fresh set of questions around the plane that Boeing and investors had hoped were behind it.
The key question for both: can the burned plane be fixed easily and at a reasonable cost?
While composites have been used in aerospace for decades, the 787 is the first commercial jetliner built mainly from carbon-plastic materials, whose weight savings, combined with new engines, are supposed to slash fuel costs 20 percent and operating costs by 10 percent compared with traditional aluminum alloy.
In designing the Dreamliner, Boeing engineers also added a weight-saving electrical system that was sorely tested when its lithium-ion batteries overheated on two 787s in January. The system also suffered a fire in 2010 during the plane's test phase, and could come under scrutiny again if the Ethiopian Airlines blaze is traced to an electrical fault.
The two systems are supposed to put Boeing at least a decade ahead of its rivals in the way aircraft is designed, built and operated. Boeing wants the 787 to become its most profitable passenger plane - and a fountain of innovation to feed designs of other future planes.
Now they are both being tested again at a time when the company is designing new planes and building up its factory production to fill a record book of orders.
Boeing declined to comment other than to say it is cooperating with the investigation of the fire.
Such extensive composite repairs have not previously been performed on an operating commercial plane. So the Ethiopian Airline fire is the first chance airlines, financiers and competitors will have to see a real example of how and at what cost the repair can be done.
"Everyone in the industry is going to follow this closely," said Hans Weber, president of TECOP International and an aviation consultant who has worked on composite testing technology. "It's the ultimate test."
Carbon-composite technology and repair have been in use much longer than lithium-ion batteries. Boeing and others have had carbon fiber in military planes, such as the B2 Stealth Bomber, for more than 25 years.
The 787's composite skin can be patched by grinding out the damaged section, applying fresh layers of fiber and resin and then curing with heat under vacuum pressure, according to a Boeing engineer with knowledge of the process. The work can be done on site, and repair stations have been learning to make repairs to service the plane around the world.
But the true cost and complexity of repair remains a key question for industry, airlines and competitors. In developing its rival A350 plane, Airbus(EAD.PA) used composite panels that are bolted to a framework, much like aluminum planes are made, a technology it saw as less risky to build and service.
Boeing chose to build one-piece, barrel-shaped fuselage sections that are bolted together to form a fuselage that it says is more aerodynamic and cheaper to maintain.
Boeing could make a new piece of fuselage and attach it if the damaged area was not too large, said the Boeing engineer. In a worst case, the entire rear section of the fuselage could be replaced, Weber said, an expensive fix that might cost more than the plane is worth.
The Ethiopian Airlines fire was noticed eight hours after the plane had been parked at a remote stand, the airline said, adding it was not a safety issue because the plane was not in flight and no passengers were aboard.
Fires break out on parked planes about 60 times a year, and most are from "human error" such as leaving a circuit on or cigarette butt, Weber said. A fire on a different type of plane might have gone unreported. Britain's Air Accident Investigations Branch termed the 787 fire a "serious incident" and said the initial investigation was likely to take several days.
Passengers appear to be sticking with the Dreamliner for now. Over the weekend, major travel agents in Japan, where most 787s are operating, said they had not seen reduction in bookings for 787 flights, and the plane remains in flight on the 13 airlines that currently operate it.
"We've received no such inquiries," said an official at JTB's Yurakucho branch in Tokyo. The company typically sells package tours, "and if there's a trouble, we change aircraft or routes for our customers."
In the near term, many stock analysts say they expect the stock to rise following the Friday decline. "I think investors will largely look past the incident, absent more info that suggests ongoing problem," said Carter Copeland, an analyst at Barclays in New York.
Boeing's stock has climbed more than 40 percent this year as investors focused on the company's record pace of jet production, which is generating cash.
Some are more cautious. Jeff Straebler, managing director and investment analyst at John Hancock Financial Services, said: "Until there is more information available on the cause, I don't think any judgments should be made."
(Additional reporting by Osamu Tsukimori in Tokyo; Editing by Edward Tobin, Peter Henderson and Jeremy Laurence)
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For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides.
Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitably one with a big, playful beat and an irresistible hook — would blare from car stereos everywhere. Then came prom singalongs as the song finally became ubiquitous around the Fourth of July. In 1987, it was Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." In 2003, Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love."
But the success of this summer's hit, Carly Rae Jepsen's cheerfully flirty "Call Me Maybe," shows how much the hitmaking machine, as well as the music industry itself, has been upended by social media.
Only a year ago, the charts were dominated by stars who had come out of the old machine of radio and major-label promotion: Katy Perry, Rihanna, Adele, Maroon 5. This year's biggest hits — "Call Me Maybe," Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Fun.'s "We Are Young" — started in left field and were helped along by YouTube and Twitter before coming to the mainstream media.
For "Call Me Maybe," which was No. 1 for nine weeks, the longest run of the year, the critical piece was YouTube. After Justin Bieber and friends posted a video of themselves lip-syncing to it in February, hundreds of fan tributes followed. Alongside Ms. Jepsen's own video, which has been watched 212 million times, versions by Katy Perry, the Cookie Monster ("Share It Maybe") and the United States Olympic swim team turned it into a yearlong audiovisual meme.
A tribute version even brought the song to the attention of President Obama. In an interview with KOB-FM, a New Mexico radio station, he said: "I have to admit, I've never actually heard the original version of the song. I saw this version where they spliced up me from a whole bunch of different speeches that I made. They kind of mashed together an Obama version of it."
Nearly two-thirds of teenagers listen to music on YouTube, more than any other medium, Nielsen said last week. Ms. Jepsen said in a recent interview that "the viral videos are what's been the driving force for this. It was insane to see that the music could spread that far because of the Internet. It's a cool thing. It changes the game completely."
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are now record labels' textbook tools for starting a marketing campaign, and if the numbers there are big enough, they can be used in pitches to radio and television programmers.
To introduce Cher Lloyd, a 19-year-old singer who was on "The X Factor" in Britain, Epic Records set up a "queen" fan to beat the drum on Twitter, and coached Ms. Lloyd on what to mention online — a TV appearance, for example, or the Twitter handles for radio D.J.'s.
"In this day and age, artist development is about how do you turn 10 Facebook likes into 100, into 1,000," said Scott Seviour, Epic's senior vice president for marketing.
The song catapulted Ms. Jepsen, apple-cheeked and giggly at 26, from obscurity to worldwide fame. Five years ago she placed third on "Canadian Idol," and last fall she released "Call Me Maybe" in Canada to preview her second album. By the Christmas holiday it was a minor hit in Canada, when Mr. Bieber heard it.
"It's supposed to be a fun song," Ms. Jepsen said. "Not to take yourself too seriously, to put you in a good mood."
Mr. Bieber's role in popularizing the song reflects the importance of both social media and old-fashioned celebrity promotion. On Dec. 30, 2011, he told his 15 million Twitter followers that "Call Me Maybe" was "possibly the catchiest song I've ever heard lol." Shortly thereafter, he and Mr. Braun signed Ms. Jepsen to their label in the United States, Schoolboy, which is affiliated with Interscope Records and the Universal Music Group.
To exploit the success of the single, which has sold eight million downloads around the world, Ms. Jepsen delayed the release of her album. Called "Kiss," it will now be released next month, when she will also hit the road as an opening act for Mr. Bieber.
The song's trajectory also demonstrates the continuing power of radio, which record executives say is still essential to turn any song — no matter how much online buzz it has — into a genuine smash.
In March and April, when "Call Me Maybe" was getting tens of millions of views on YouTube, it still had relatively low radio play — fewer than 5,000 spins a week on Top 40 stations in the United States, according to Nielsen. It hit No. 1 on iTunes on May 27, but took almost a month to reach No. 1 on Billboard's singles chart, which counts sales as well as airplay and streaming services. By then it had about 20,000 spins a week on multiple radio formats.
"There's not a million-seller out there that doesn't have radio play," said Jay Frank, chief executive of the label DigSin. "But its first million generally doesn't come from radio."
"Call Me Maybe" is a watershed case for the use of social media as a marketing tool, but the song's success will be difficult to replicate — even for Ms. Jepsen as she prepares to release her album. No matter how hard a record company might push, popularity online depends on the enthusiasm of individual fans.
The marketers behind Ms. Jepsen have worked to organize it to some degree, through tools like a Tumblr blog collecting fan tribute videos. But Jonathan Simkin, her manager, said that trying to control the energy wasn't the point.
"That's part of the beauty of how this has grown," Mr. Simkin said. "This is just people who the song struck. I don't want to harness it or limit it. I just want to pinch myself and say, 'Thank God the song affects people this way.' "
Ms. Jepsen said she was not worrying about trying to line up another megahit, because that kind of success is never predictable.
"I never know what is a hit and what isn't a hit," she said. "I just write what feels natural and good. At end of the day you just release it and hope for the best."


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Mount Surprise is a railway town on the Cairns to Forsayth Railway and is the first town within the Gulf Savannah encountered by visitors approaching from the east. It is a centre for gem fossicking, with quantities of topaz, quartz, spinel, garnet, cairngorm and aquamarine to be found. Mount Surprise sits on the edge of an immense lava flow from an ancient volcano to the south east. The surrounding country is flat, wooded savannah grasslands, with isolated hills.
The Gulf Savannah is an interesting region to visit all year, however, during the monsoon season, transportation methods must be carefully considered, as some parts of the Gulf Savannah region suffer from a lack of road infrastructure.
By car, Mount Surprise lies about 4 hours' drive south-west of Cairns.
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Your Xbox Live Arcade and Games on Demand budgeting for February can begin, thanks to Microsoft's schedule for the month's new digital releases and deals, including a more affordable version of Battlefield 1943 for Xbox Live Arcade.
A handful of new games are also planned for "on demand" releases, including Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5, and Beautiful Katamari plus Halo Wars and Viva Piñata: Party Animals for our international friends. There are even Resident Evil 5 Xbox Avatar goodies coming, which I pray means an Avatar version of Chris Redfield's new post-apocalyptic leather daddy outfit.
Here's how Microsoft sees February shaking out.
Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:
Feb. 15: Battlefield 1943, 800 Microsoft Points
Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:
Feb. 9: Street Fighter IV
Feb. 9: Halo Wars (Europe, Australia and New Zealand)
Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5
Feb. 16: Beautiful Katamari
Feb. 16: Viva Piñata: Party Animals (Japan)
Xbox LIVE Arcade:
Feb. 10: Darwinia +, 1200 points
Feb. 17: The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, 800 points
Xbox Avatars Marketplace:
Feb. 11: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5
Feb. 18: Metro 2033


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What's the Connection between Power, Development and Social Media?
I recently gave a talk about ICT and Development at the annual Re:Campaign conference in Berlin, organized by Oxfam Germany. Anyone who knows me will realize that this is a bit odd – despite being a blogaholic, I am actually Rubbish At Technology. In front of 300 trendy, young (sigh) i-thingy wielding activists, I felt like a Neanderthal at a cocktail party. Still, at least the fear of being shamed up finally got me tweeting two weeks before the conference.
I decided to make a virtue of necessity and set out some core processes in development, and then reflected on what ICT does/doesn't contribute. Why take this approach (apart from being a techno-caveman, that is)? Because there's too much magic bulletism in development –microfinance, GM crops and now 'cyber utopianism'. What all of these have in common is that they are too often presented as 'get out of jail free' cards, delivering development without all the messy business of politics and struggle. At best, new technologies shift power balances, sometimes favourably, sometimes not, but they don't replace the process of struggle in development.


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kcsyoga necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
One Flow Yoga Studio
One Flow Yoga Studio, makes this promise in each and every class we offer:
1) It will be hard work
2) It will be inspiring
3) It will be fun
Our brand is built on the following ideas:
Unlike other studios that make yoga a "high minded" practice that gets ethereal, we offer a yoga practice that makes a difference in your every day life. We play amazing music in our classes. They are also creative and mandate your presence. When we talk about strength, we are talking physically, mentally, spiritually.
We are looking to capture the essence of these concepts in a header for our wordpress blog. The hard work is pretty much done--we have a logo, a name and a tagline. We need it put together in a coherent, relevant and beautiful manner.
What we need from you is the typography and holistic design to bring this together.
The logo is attached and is of one person, in a "flowing meditation", radiating light, energy and love to all.
Please keep in mind you are designing for a feminine market (think strong women) so dark colors and hard lines will not be as effective.
I have also included a font I like for inspiration.
The idea of one flow is we connect with our true selves as one (mind/body/spirit) so that we can connect with others as one community.
Our target audience is 70% female. The average household income is over $80,000 annually. They know quality. They are college educated--many with graduate degrees. They live an urban, Northern California life, go to farmer's markets, participate actively in their children's schools, run their own businesses/practices and are extremely active. They are smart, love to be part of community and come to yoga as a respite, to recharge and to be inspired. They have large networks of friends, enjoy travel, good food/wine and being healthy.
We are looking for a simple, clear header, that is:
And a bit of fun (though not over the top)
The name of the studio is "One Flow" and this should be made primary and large. Yoga Studio is also included but should be small and preferably to the right of "One Flow" or underneath depending on which works better aesthetically.
The tagline is "Strength, Courage & Love For Life" should be on the bottom of the header and be called out with a different style that indicates it is a quote--such as making it a clear script or italic, etc. (Nothing too ornate.)
The current website is in it's infancy but can be found at:
The beige color used in the design will stay, though the texture might change. The studio colors are red/white with yellow being an accent. (I think the red compliments the beige well and will really be a strong "pop" of color."
The header needs to be exactly 780 x 100 pixels.
Here is a website example:
I like this header because it's large, clear, easily identifiable and has a personality that is warm and welcoming.
Thank you for your time and efforts.


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State lawmakers propose tough gun laws
Gun advocates pledge fight over California proposals
Sacramento --
California would significantly restrict gun use and ownership, including major new bans on ammunition magazines, under dozens of new proposed regulations that would cement the state's status of having the strictest gun-control laws in the United States.
The magnitude of restrictions introduced by Democrats is greater than gun-rights advocates say they have ever seen at one time and puts the debate in California in the forefront, even as Congress considers a number of gun laws. The drive for tougher regulations in California also highlights the relative weakness of the gun lobby and gun manufacturers in the state.
Restrictions would include a ban on possession of all high-capacity magazines. Such magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and that were purchased before the state banned them in 2000 are currently legal.
Also, lawmakers proposed a ban on the sale of any long gun with a detachable magazine, classifying such guns as assault weapons.
'Exploiting the fine print'
State lawmakers announced those proposals at a news conference Thursday, along with plans to impose stricter certification requirements for handgun ownership and a requirement that all guns in the state be registered, not just handguns as is required now. Other recent proposals include a tax on ammunition and requiring that gun owners acquire liability insurance.
The gun industry "is very adept at exploiting the fine print and finding ways to get around the letter of the law," said state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. "The time is now to close those loopholes in the circulation, in regulation and in the education relating to guns and to gun ownership."
He said he acknowledged the argument that new restrictions won't stop gun violence in neighborhoods, but he said they would save some lives.
"If we can save lives, we must act to do so," Steinberg said.
Lawmakers were joined by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, both Democrats, and public safety officials from around the state.
Audible evidence
Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus played a recording of dozens and dozens of gunshots fired in rapid succession over just a few seconds at 11 p.m. at Stege Avenue and Cutting Boulevard that were picked up by the city's gunfire recording system soon after it was put in place.
"I live a mile away from that intersection, so I can tell you this is a quality-of-life issue, even when someone isn't struck by one of those rounds," Magnus said.
Not all of the measures announced Thursday have been put in bill form, but they and other recent proposals include:
-- Requiring all handgun owners to obtain an annual safety certificate akin to that required for obtaining a concealed weapons permit, which requires holders to take hours-long courses in gun use and safety.
-- Barring the loaning or sale of a firearm between people who know each other personally.
-- Requiring gun owners to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any damage that could result from use of a firearm.
-- A 5-cent tax on each bullet purchased, with the money to be spent on either policing in high-crime areas or mental-illness screening and treatment for children.
-- Requirements for ammunition sellers to be registered and sales reported to state officials.
In all, state Senate Democrats plan to introduce seven bills; while in the Assembly, 13 bills and one resolution have been introduced so far, and more may be coming. The bills contain multiple gun regulations.
'Off the charts'
Gun-rights advocates said the proposals are either unconstitutional or unnecessary and that there was no comparison to any past legislative session in their magnitude.
"This is off the charts, and none of these laws that are being proposed will prevent crime or solve crime," said Sam Paredes, executive director of the Gun Owners of California. He said lawmakers should instead find ways to better fund courts and the Department of Justice to ensure that guns do not get into the hands of the mentally ill.
Fight promised
But even with a Democratic majority intent on new regulations, Paredes said gun owners and Second Amendment advocates would fight hard against them in the Legislature and then in the courts.
"Nothing has gone to unify the pro-gun community, the pro-Second Amendment community more than the attacks that we are facing," he said, adding that they were the most "in the history of California and maybe the history of the United States."
Still, lawmakers said they believe the public has given them a mandate for action.
"In general, I think due to the recent tragedies that have happened, I think that has emboldened members to put forth bills," said Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, who is chairman of the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
And they have law-enforcement officials pushing them forward, too. Emeryville Police Chief Ken James called the proposals "reasonable" and said they would benefit police officers.
When officers encounter guns, he said, "that is a high-stress, high-intensity situation for us. It takes it out of us. It scares us."
Wyatt Buchanan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Deep-ocean microbe is closest living relative of complex cells – "A new study indicates that plants, fungi, and animals are descendants of archaea, the group of single-celled organisms that includes Sulfolobus, a resident of hot springs." – h/t bill barendse! – see also: New Loki Microbe Is Closest Relative To All Complex Life.
A Surprise for Evolution in Giant Tree of Life – "Researchers build the world's largest evolutionary tree and conclude that species arise because of chance mutations — not natural selection…. This controversial proposal stems from efforts by Hedges and collaborators to build the world's most comprehensive tree of life — a chart plotting the connections among 50,000 species of Earth's vast menagerie. Their analysis suggests that speciation is essentially random. No matter what the life form — plant or animal, insect or mammal — it takes about 2 million years for a new species to form. Random genetic events, not natural selection, play the main role in speciation." – see also Was Charles Darwin Wrong About Speciation? from razib.
Genetic changes to basic developmental processes evolve more frequently than thought – "Newly evolved genes can rapidly assume control over fundamental functions during early embryonic development. The findings suggest that evolutionary changes to the genetics of fundamental biological processes occur more frequently than previously thought." – h/t david bachinsky!
The First GMO Is 8,000 Years Old – "Scientists find that bacteria modified DNA in sweet potatoes millennia ago."
Behavioral idiosyncrasy reveals genetic control of phenotypic variability [pdf] – "If we could rear genetically identical individuals from a variety of genetic backgrounds and rear them in the same environment, how much phenotypic variation between individuals of the same genotype would we see? Would different genetic backgrounds differ in their degree of variability? What would account for these differences? We used Drosophila inbred lines to address these questions focusing on variability in locomotor handedness. We show that different genotypes vary dramatically in their propensity for variability, that phenotypic variability itself, as a trait, can be heritable, and that loci affecting variability can be mapped. The genetic control of variability has received little attention in quantitative genetics despite the important role variability plays in explaining phenotypic variation between individuals."
two tweets from the Biology of Genomes meeting re. a presentation on mutation rates:
CH: mutation rate is ~1.2e-8, w/ ~2X higher in males. ~20% de novo mutations in sperm occur during development v being inherited #BOG15
— Mark Gerstein (@markgerstein) May 8, 2015
Harland: In cow (& us??), many de novos arise in early embryo, not gamete. Hallmarks: freq != 0.5 til kid; no m/paternal chrom. bias. #BoG15
— Nathan Pearson (@GenomeNathan) May 8, 2015
Team Characterizing DNA from Ancient Human with Recent Neanderthal Ancestry [registration req.] – see also Ancient DNA from an Upper Paleolithic European with recent Neanderthal ancestry – "the male sample, Oase 1, is 37-42K years old and comes from the Pestera cu Oase site in southwestern Romania. it's estimated to harbor 5-11% of genome-wide Neanderthal ancestry, with as much as 50% on chromosome 12. the admixture is in relatively long stretches, which suggests that the mixture took place four to six generations before Oase 1 was alive." – @the eurogenes blog.
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation – "The stone artefacts and stratigraphic details support previous claims for human occupation 50–60 ka and show that human occupation during this time differed from later periods." – h/t chris stringer!
Stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world – "Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery." – denisovan jewelry!!
The Old Race – from greg cochran.
Ancient DNA Tells a New Human Story – "The study of ancient DNA has challenged this view. We now know that mass migrations occurred repeatedly, overwhelming natives while absorbing some of their genes…. Joseph Pickrell of Columbia University and David Reich of Harvard University argue that 'major upheavals' of human population have been 'overwriting' the genetic history of the past 50,000 years. The result, they say, is that 'present-day inhabitants of many places in the world are rarely related in a simple manner to the more ancient peoples of the same region.'" – from matt ridley.
2,500-year old Etruscans – "All that can be said based on this is that they seem broadly southern European and not particularly Tuscan." – from dienekes. – h/t anthropology tip!
The time and place of European gene flow into Ashkenazi Jews – @the eurogenes blog.
Symbolic bones and interethnic violence in a frontier zone, northwest Mexico, ca. 500–900 C.E. – "Persistent interethnic violence has affected some global regions for centuries…. In the prehispanic Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica, approximately 500–900 C.E., people of different ethnic backgrounds struggled for standing in a shifting sociopolitical landscape. Evidence is consistent with long-term social violence…." – h/t gaetan burgio!
London Conference on Intelligence 2015 Keynote – from dr. james thompson.
NIH bans funding for genetic engineering of human embryos – (>.<)
Three hundred years of low non-paternity in a human population – "Here we use this approach to investigate 1273 conceptions over a period of 330 years in 23 families of the Afrikaner population in South Africa. We use haplotype frequency and diversity and coalescent simulations to show that the male population did not undergo a severe bottleneck and that paternity exclusion rates are high for this population. The rate of cuckoldry in this Western population was 0.9% (95% confidence interval 0.4–1.5%), and we argue that given the current data on historical populations we have to conclude that, at least for Western human populations, cuckoldry rate is probably in the range of 1%." – h/t debbie kennett!
Genius and autism may share genetic link, study finds – "Child prodigies and their autistic family members may share a genetic link, according to findings published online for the April issue of Human Heredity."
Immediate susceptibility to visual illusions after sight onset – h/t laura kelley!
The glass is half full *and* half empty: A population-representative twin study testing if optimism and pessimism are distinct systems – "Here, we addressed these questions in a genetically informative sample of 852 pairs of twins. Distinct genetic influences on optimism and pessimism were found. Significant family-level environment effects also emerged, accounting for much of the negative relationship between optimism and pessimism, as well as a link to neuroticism. A general positive genetics factor exerted significant links among both personality and life-orientation traits. Both optimism bias and pessimism also showed genetic variance distinct from all effects of personality and from each other." – h/t stuart ritchie!
Stanford researchers observe the moment when a mind is changed
Nature or nurture? Are sporting champions born to win? – h/t razib!
Menstrual Cycle Phase Does Not Predict Political Conservatism
Heritability of decisions and outcomes of public goods games
The kind of student you were in elementary school predicts mortality – h/t timothy bates!
The Mask of Sanity Revisited: Psychopathic Traits and Affective Mimicry – h/t claire lehmann! who tweeted: "People with psychopathy can produce highly convincing but fake expressions of feelings."
Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies – h/t steve stewart williams!
The kin selection argument continues, with those denying its importance holding firm. They're wrong. – from jerry coyne.
Behaviorism and the revival of antiracism – from peter frost.
Heterogeneity of long-history migration explains cultural differences in reports of emotional expressivity and the functions of smiles – hmmmm. really? – see also: What your smile says about where you're from – "If you come from a country of immigrants, you're more likely to crack a friendly smile on the street. That's the conclusion of a new study, which may explain why Americans beam more than their Chinese and Russian counterparts."
Is reading to your kids "unfairly disadvantaging" others? – hahahahahaha! – h/t brian boutwell! who tweeted: "The nonsense that you can believe when you're convinced that genes don't matter." – see also Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?
How uncommon is tickertaping? Prevalence and characteristics of seeing the words you hear – h/t kevin mitchell!
Peter Visscher: Genomics, Big Data, Medicine, and Complex Traits – @steve hsu's.
Memes are Genes – from evolution theorist. (where do memes come from?) – h/t jayman!
How can our future Mars colonies be free of sexism and racism? – (>.<) #virtuesignalling – h/t ed west!
Paternity Case for a New Jersey Mother of Twins Bears Unexpected Results: Two Fathers – ruh roh!
After Nearly Claiming His Life, Ebola Lurked in a Doctor's Eye – "Before he contracted Ebola, Dr. Ian Crozier had two blue eyes. After he was told he was cured of the disease, his left eye turned green [temporarily]." – whoa.
How music evolves – "Statistical analysis of music reveals the truth about its periods of revolution." – h/t argumatronic!
The Medieval Roots of Our DIY Gun Culture – "Forget 3-D printers. The first garage gunsmiths date back to the late Middle Ages."
When Baltimore Shook With Anger, Here's What China Saw – "Online reaction revealed much about Chinese tension with an influx of African immigrants." – h/t holtz!
No, there's no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment – duh. – from eugene volokh.
bonus: The migration of the eagle hunters – awesome!
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Are you a list-maker?
I am! I make lists for everything. From your every day "to do" lists, chores, Christmas lists, things I want to do before I'm 30 (the days are dwindling on this one!) I am always making lists or leaving notes for myself to get things done.
Do I always check everything off my list? No, absolutely not! But it is a way to help me organize my thoughts, places I want to go and to remember things that I might otherwise forget to do (this is especially relevant to chores or buying birthday cards, things I don't do every day).
My best friend often refers to list-making as part of our "only child syndrome" which I totally agree with but I think I'm also kind of obsessed with organization in general, including my thoughts and ideas. Although my lists aren't always organized…some are on paper, some are on my Google Calendar, some are on post-it notes at my desk at work. Sometimes I lose them or forget where they are 😉
But the reason I decided to post about this today is that "to do" lists in particular are causing me problems on the weekends. Now, I am able to get A LOT of things done on the weekends since I am off from work and I write down everything I want or need to do before I go home on Fridays. But I also end up absolutely exhausted, I'm talking feet hurting and everything because I do too much. Sometimes by Monday, I am so tired and sore from the weekend that getting up and going to work is almost impossible.
On the weekend, I think I finally have time to do everything and go everywhere. A friend of mine even joked to me recently that all of my Foursquare check-ins were wearing HER out! When other people start to notice, then it's really a problem!
A typical weekend for me would include getting up early on Saturday morning, going to yoga, grabbing a coffee, grocery shopping, lunch, fun shopping (Target, the mall, etc.), maybe get some gas, stop by a bookstore, oh I forgot something and have to go back to the grocery…before I know it, it's dinner time. And I'm ready for bed. Sunday is pretty much a repeat of the same only instead of yoga and coffee, it's church that I get up early for. And I'm usually scrambling around to get everything done at home that I neglected on Saturday while I was out and about.
So this weekend, I have decided that I want to be productive but I also want to make time to rest and take a load off since I do work all week. I don't want to wake up on Monday morning feeling like I ran a marathon. I have a lot of energy, but I don't need to completely deplete it!
What to do? Completely throw the list out? Well, no, some of my errands are going to be kind of fun. Like using the Whole Foods Living Social voucher I scored this week and I really do want to start baking with the three large cans of pumpkin that are now in my pantry. I also want to take a yoga class and take Suzie to the dog park, oh and grocery shopping…can you see how I end up here?
What I need to do is set some priorities. My Google Calendar also really opened my eyes to just how busy I am, both during the week and on the weekends. It's a good tool to use because I know where I need to be and what all I've got going on now and in the future, but it's also got way too many things listed on it. I need to cut back. So this weekend, I am going to challenge myself.
Since this is a post about list-making, here is the list of the only things I absolutely have to do this weekend:
- Grocery shopping
- Laundry
- Yoga class
- Suzie-Dog park (weather permitting)
- Take a nap!
- Bake something awesome and pumpkin-y (yes I consider baking relaxing!)
It also looks like I will spend more than a few hours of the day at home. I feel better already. Now I just have to keep it up. And not add anything to my list.
What about you? Is your life over-organized and yet still full of chaos? Are you able to relax on your days off or do you go back to work feeling even more tired than you did at the end of the week?


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OMAHA, Neb. — A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges — and catcalls from animal lovers.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday alleged they saw 20-year-old Acea Schomaker smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped, plastic glass box in which the cat had been stuffed.
"This cat was just dazed," Sgt. Andy Stebbing said. "She was on the front seat of the cop car, wrapped in a blanket, and never moved all the way to the humane society."
Schomaker told deputies 6-month-old Shadow was hyper and he was trying to calm her down. The contraption she had been stuffed inside was 12 inches by 6 inches. Shadow was timid but in good condition Monday at the Capital Humane Society, executive director Bob Downey said.
"What the human mind doesn't invent, huh?" Downey said.
Schomaker was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty and paid a $400 fine. He also faces drug charges. He did not immediately respond to phone messages left Monday seeking comment.
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Don Cherry is confident that the NHL's lockout will end soon.
The Hockey Night in Canada commentator tweeted on Saturday that he is sure the ongoing labour dispute between the league and its players' association will end within the next few weeks.
"Look to the middle of January for the game to return!" said Cherry from his verified Twitter account. "Those people who say it won't be good hockey because it's only half a season don't know what they're talking about."
The former head coach of the Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies pointed out that the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season was still exciting to watch.
"Don't you remember the last time it was half a season and New Jersey won the Cup? It was a sprint not a marathon," said Cherry. "Play within their own conference. Lots of action. The guys know every game is important. Won't have the half season blahs. It will be terrific!"
Cherry continued, saying the NHL and players union will get a crunch-time deal done.
"They will go to the brink and then settle," said the 78-year-old. "Nobody in their right mind would kill the goose that lays these golden eggs."
The lockout is in its 98th day. NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and players' association special counsel Steve Fehr spoke on the phone Saturday but still haven't made plans to meet face to face.