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CALGARY — The benchmark price of single-family homes in the city reached a new high of $452,900 in April, as market conditions that favour the seller finally drove prices above the unadjusted peak in 2007, said the Calgary Real Estate Board.
"It's really encouraging to see that the Calgary market remains strong," said Becky Walters, CREB's president, in releasing the MLS data for April on Wednesday. "It's reassuring to both buyers and sellers to see that this area is outperforming many parts of the country."
The single-family benchmark price, which looks at typical properties sold, was up 7.32 per cent from a year ago.
CREB said that for the first time since 2007 conditions favour the seller.
Calgary's resale housing market saw continued growth in April with MLS sales and prices on the upswing.
According to CREB, total MLS sales during the month of 2,381 were up 8.28 per cent compared with April 2012.
The average sale price jumped by 4.08 per cent to $446,409 while the median price increased by 4.69 per cent to $399,900.
"I listed one in Signal Hill. It sold within a week. We had a ton of showings within the first couple of days. Properties are moving," said Kristine Semrau, a realtor with Sotheby's International Realty Canada in Calgary.
"I've got buyer clients and we've got properties lined up to see the next day and by the time the next day comes they're gone. I'm sure you can tell by the number of sold signs and all the stickers around town. It's a little crazy but good."
New listings of 3,476 were up 7.32 per cent from last year but active listings of 4,364 have dropped by 17.15 per cent.
An indication of how quickly properties are being purchased is the days on market statistic which shows it took an average of 33 days in April for a property to sell, down 19.57 per cent from the 41 days a year ago.
"Declining selection in the lower price range and market conditions that favour the seller in the overall single-family market has resulted in a boost in demand in the condominium market and surrounding towns," said CREB's chief economist Ann-Marie Lurie. "Inventory levels declined across all of these segments. However, surrounding towns remain in balanced territory, as they experienced the effect of previously elevated inventory levels.
"Calgary's housing market continues to defy national softening trends as gains in the employment sector, migrant growth, rising wages and low interest rates are translating into growing demand for housing."
In the single-family market, sales reached 1,611, up 1.96 per cent from last year as the median price rose by 6.74 per cent to $449,900 and the average price increased by 5.75 per cent to $510,834.
The condo apartment sector saw sales increase by 22.22 per cent to 429 as the median price rose by 4.29 per cent to $255,500 and the average price was up by 8.74 per cent to $291,345. The benchmark price rose by 7.35 per cent to $261,300.
In the condo townhouse market, sales increased by 27.24 per cent to 341 transactions. The median price fell by 1.11 per cent to $296,000 but the average price was up by 5.15 per cent to $337,119. The benchmark price was up 4.52 per cent to $288,900.
"House prices in Calgary have been on the rise in 2013. Demand for housing continues to be well supported by the economy, while active listings have declined. Homes are also selling quicker compared to the previous year which is also putting upward pressure on prices," said Richard Cho, senior market analyst in Calgary for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.


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Pandora Media Inc. reported better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter on Thursday afternoon — giving its stock a sharp boost despite the surprise additional news that its CEO plans to step down.
Pandora P also projected a revenue range for the current quarter that was above Wall Street's estimates. The stock jumped more than 19% in after-hours trades.

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Beta-sitosterol is one of many sterols that come from plants (phytosterols) and have a structure like the cholesterol produced in the body. You can find phytosterols in many plants and thus in foods such as rice bran, wheat germ, corn oils, soybeans, and peanuts. Beta-sitosterol is also available as a dietary supplement.
Beta-sitosterol is said to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of some cancers. It also is said to relieve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). How beta-sitosterol works is not known. It may be related to cholesterol metabolism or anti-inflammatory effects.
A review of studies done on beta-sitosterol showed that men who took it had fewer symptoms than men who took a placebo. Symptoms were measured using the American Urological Association (AUA) symptom index. Men who took beta-sitosterol also had a better urine flow rate then men who took a placebo.footnote 1
Research supports the fact that phytosterols, including beta-sitosterol, can reduce cholesterol levels. Some studies suggest that phytosterols may reduce the risk of some cancers, but more research is needed to know how well they really work.
Few problems have been reported among men taking beta-sitosterol for BPH. Some men may have problems with their stomach and digestion. Beta-sitosterol's ability to prevent complications of BPH is not known.
Men who have problems urinating should see a doctor to rule out prostate cancer or other diseases. Prostate cancer is treatable, but treatment may be more successful when you find and treat the cancer as early as possible.
Some studies have shown that phytosterols can help lower cholesterol. But the long-term effects of eating foods that have phytosterols added to them (for example, some margarines) or taking phytosterols as a dietary supplement are not yet known.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate dietary supplements in the same way it regulates medicines. A dietary supplement can be sold with limited or no research on how well it works.
Always tell your doctor if you are using a dietary supplement or if you are thinking about combining a dietary supplement with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on a dietary supplement. This is especially important for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
When using dietary supplements, keep in mind the following:
Wilt TJ, et al. (1999). Beta-sitosterols for benign prostatic hyperplasia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (3).
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Bradford PG, Awad AB (2007). Phytosterols as anticancer compounds. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 51(2): 161–70.
Weingarter O, et al. (2008). Vascular effects of diet supplementation with plant sterols. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 51(16): 1553.
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You all remember "Starship Troopers", right? The 1997 Sci-Fi bug battle flick that also had boobies in it? I was just a young 19 year old watching a bunch of people fight giant bugs and then all of the sudden blammo! Shower scene. It was glorious. Well it looks like there's a new movie being added to the series but this one will be animated. The film titled "Starship Troopers: Invasion" will pretty much have the same plot as all the other films but this time the nudity will be animated. So look out for that one if you're a complete deviant.
It looks like the lead role in the upcoming horror/comedy "Rentaghost" has transitioned from Russell Brand to Ben Stiller which is kind of like the doctor coming in the room and telling you that you don't have syphilis but you do have chlamydia. The film is based on an early 80's British sitcom about a recently deceased ghoul who sets up a temp agency for the fellow undead unemployed. Pretty sure if Stiller gets dropped then Dane Cook is next on the list.
If you were worried about "Paranormal Activity 3" being light on the spooky then fear not my friends because the good people at the MPAA have given the flick an R rating. The reason for the rating is listed as "violence, language, brief sexuality and drug use". I have no idea what "brief sexuality" means but I'm kind of interested. I've been displaying my sexuality for close to 34 years now with no signs of stopping.
A new trailer for the film "All God's Creatures" has popped up on the tubes for your viewing pleasure. The film follows a NYC barista who takes it upon himself to murder hookers by night because he's sees them as "filthy women". The film is interesting because the guy serves coffee for a living and is somehow buying tail I couldn't afford if I saved up for a year. I don't know how you did it my friends but you cracked the code.


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Sexual orientation is an identity based on whether someone is attracted to people of a sex different from their own, the same sex, or both sexes (i.e., heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual). Gender identity is a person's internal sense of being male, female, or somewhere else along the gender spectrum. Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity is different from their biological sex or the sex they were assigned at birth. The acronym GLBT stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.
While progress has been made since the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City (1969)widely - considered to be a pivotal moment in the GLBT rights movement - GLBT individuals still face discrimination and intolerance based on pervasive stereotypes and myths about GLBT people.
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GLBT-related issues often arise in schools. These include bullying or harassment against students (and sometimes school personnel) who are or are perceived as GLBT; the high rates of truancy, dropout, substance abuse, homelessness and suicide among GLBT youth; controversy surrounding GLBT school events and student clubs; the right of school personnel to "come out" or identify as GLBT in school; and other issues. In many jurisdictions, GLBT school personnel still lack legal or contractual employment benefits, rights and protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
To address GLBT issues effectively, NEA members may consider taking one or more of the following steps in their schools or communities:
- Educate yourself about facts vs. myths surrounding GLBT people, especially the facts related to health and safety of GLBT students Find ways to support your GLBT students and colleagues
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- Safe Schools for Everyone: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
- Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network
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Qualified Math Teachers Elusive for Struggling Students, Studies Find
Struggling students face longest odds
In many schools in the United States, students struggling the most in mathematics at the start of high school have the worst odds of getting a qualified teacher in the subject, new research finds.
Succeeding in freshman-level mathematics is critical for students to stay on track to high school graduation, with students who make poor grades in math in 8th and 9th grades more likely to leave school entirely.
Yet two new studies presented at the Association for Education Finance and Policy meeting here last month suggest that students who enter high school performing below average in math have a lower chance of getting a teacher who is well-qualified to teach math than do higher-achieving students. The problem, the research concludes, exacerbates gaps in teacher access between schools with different performance and wealth levels.
In one study, Cara Jackson, a research assistant at the University of Maryland College Park, analyzed the math coursetaking and achievement of 12,900 9th graders at 730 high schools nationwide who were linked with their high school math teachers as part of the federal High School Longitudinal Study of 2009.
Ms. Jackson calculated the odds of different students' learning math in 9th grade from a "qualified" teacher, defined as one who: had earned at least a bachelor's degree, with seven or more different courses taken in mathematics; was certified by the state to teach high school math; and had been teaching at least five years.
Assignment Priorities
Ms. Jackson found big differences in how high- and low-performing schools allocate teachers.
"Within schools, a student's access to qualified teachers wasn't related to gender or race or socioeconomic status, or whether the student is an English-language learner," she said. "It is related to whether the student is enrolled in special education or a low-level math class."
Ms. Jackson found that in schools considered high-performing on the basis of state math and language arts test scores, students in special education and those enrolled in low-level math classes are slightly more likely to get a qualified teacher than students in higher-level math classes. By contrast, in average and low-performing schools, it is the reverse. In low-achieving schools, special education students and those in low-level math classes are a third less likely to have a qualified math teacher than their higher-achieving peers.
In 9th grade, Ms. Jackson found, high-performing math students in average or low-performing schools had about 10 percent "higher odds of getting a qualified math teacher, even after controlling for the level of math they are taking," she said.
"We might be seeing optimal matching here. If you have limited resources, you might put your teachers with the strongest content knowledge with the students in the highest-level math classes," Ms. Jackson said, adding, "or it might just be a way to reward your best teachers. But that certainly makes it harder for low-achieving students to catch up to their peers."
The opposite may be true in high-achieving schools, with administrators directing their best teachers to serve the most struggling students, but Ms. Jackson said it isn't clear whether that is because those schools have more qualified math teachers or simply make assignments differently.
Attending a wealthier or higher-performing school can boost a freshman's odds of getting a qualified teacher, too.
In the wealthiest fifth of schools, according to Ms. Jackson's analysis, 54 percent of 9th grade students had access to qualified math teachers, while only 46 percent of students in the poorest 20 percent of schools did. For every standard deviation decrease in a school's poverty level, its students are nearly 50 percent less likely to get a qualified math teacher.
School Differences
Similarly, in a separate report, researchers from the American Institutes of Research's Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, or CALDER, probed the differences in the value, as measured by assessment results, that teachers added at high-poverty and wealthy schools in Florida and North Carolina from 2000 to 2005.
At schools with more than 70 percent of their students in poverty, the researchers found, teachers were, on average, less effective than those at schools with less concentrated poverty. Specifically, while highly effective teachers performed at about the same level in both high- and low-poverty schools, there was a much greater range of effectiveness among lower-performing teachers in high-poverty schools than in richer ones. Teachers in high-poverty schools were also generally less likely to have a graduate degree, or to be certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
"These differences are apparent even among new teachers," said Philip M. Gleason, a senior fellow with Mathematica Policy Research who was not associated with either study. "This isn't just a story of high-poverty schools having lots of turnover so more students have inexperienced teachers; that isn't explaining what they are finding."
Rather, teachers at low-income schools did not improve professionally over their years of experience as much as their colleagues at wealthier schools, according to study co-author Zeyu Xu, a CALDER senior research associate. "Why is the bottom of the teacher distribution lower in high-poverty schools?" Mr. Xu said. "It could be teachers are learning less in high-poverty schools, or that better teachers are likely to move out of high-poverty schools."
At the same time, Ms. Jackson's research also found that, among schools with lower overall student achievement, those with good student behavior and principals with high expectations were more likely to give students of all stripes access to qualified teachers in math. In higher-achieving schools, student behavior was not linked to teacher availability.
"This idea that there seems to be a stronger relationship between working conditions and access to qualified teachers in schools where overall academic achievement starts out low is pretty interesting," Mr. Gleason said.
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Is it just me or are the years going by much faster? For me, as my kids grow older and near college age, I'm more motivated than ever to make each day, month and year as fulfilling as possible.
This time of year, many people will tell me that want better work life balance in the new year. They want more fulfillment from life. My response is "what does that look like for you?"
Does it mean eating dinner with as a family a few nights a week? Does it mean reclaiming Saturdays for personal time? Does it mean devoting more time to your career so you can achieve your goals?
Once you know exactly what it means, figure out what you need to do to make it happen. Remember creating a habit or breaking an old one takes time and practice. It requires change. What specifically are you going to do to make sure that change happens. If you want to eat dinner with your kids, post a photo of you doing it somewhere you will see it each day — like on your computer desktop. A visual prompt helps!
If you mess up and spend a Saturday at the office, don't fret or give up. Change the background on your mobile phone to yourself on the beach as motivation for making it happen the next week.
All of us can and should work toward living the most fulfilling life possible.
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Committee chair terms are three years, beginning on 1 September. Nominations for open chair positions will accepted by the Nominations Chair until May 1 of the year the term in question ends. Chairs are eligible to run for succeeding terms. There are no term limits for committee chair positions. If a committee chair is unable to complete the three-year term, a replacement will be appointed by a majority vote of the EC to fill out the remaining term.
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The Diversity Committee celebrates the diversity that exists within the SIGGRAPH community and provides opportunities both in-person and year-round to connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, and gender for mentoring and inspiration. The goal of this committee is to create a welcoming and nurturing community for everyone working in computer graphics and interactive techniques independent of gender, ethnic background, and abilities.
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The Digital Arts Committee fosters the evolution of a strong digital arts community within the international organization and promotes a dialogue between visual artists and the larger SIGGRAPH community. It maintains an interactive Arts Portal and an associated social networking site that provides a central place for artists and scientists to share resources, information, artwork, and opportunities for collaboration.
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The Education Committee works to support computer graphics education and the use of computer graphics in education. Computer graphics education encompasses technical, creative, and developmental studies in curricular areas ranging from computer science to digital arts. The Education Committee undertakes a broad range of projects and activities in support of the CG education community, such as curriculum studies, resources for educators, and SIGGRAPH conference-related activities, including the international, juried SpaceTime Student Competition & Exhibition.
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It discusses everything from the future of branded content, to meaningful measurement, connected wellbeing and digital currency. A great read over coffee today. Nice work by WeAreSocial.


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It is stunning at this late date that an allegedly skeptical press is still pushing string on the theory that Obama just needs to explain himself better, but more disturbing (and emblematic) is the notion that the sitting president of the United States hasn't himself crossed the line between fact and fiction. Perhaps that conclusion is so widespread because the fact-checking exercise itself is not primarily concerned with the exercise of power.
In December the Pulitzer Prize–winning website PolitiFact, which is run by the Tampa Bay Times, announced its list of 10 finalists for "Lie of the Year." Perhaps sensitive to conservative criticisms over prior Lie of the Year winners (Sarah Palin in 2009 for saying that ObamaCare will create "death panels," and anyone in 2010 who said the law amounted to a "government takeover of health care"), the fact checkers came up with an evenly split list of 10 nominees: five that were Democratic lies about Republicans, and five that were Republican lies about Democrats. Delaware Gov. Jack Markell's assertion that "Mitt Romney says he likes to fire people" was there alongside Rush Limbaugh's claim that ObamaCare includes "the largest tax increase in the history of the world." And so on.
But the real problem with such lists isn't the lack of partisan diversity; it's the glaring lack of lies told to the public in the service of wielding government force. Only one of PolitiFact's Top 10—Obama blaming 90 percent of the 2009−12 deficit increase on George W. Bush—involved an official lying about his own record. The rest all focused on the way that politicians (and their surrogates) characterized their competitors' actions and words. This isn't a check on the exercise of power; it's a check on the exercise of rhetoric.


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Sharon Osborne rips Justin Bieber, Kanye West
Sharon Osbourne ripped Justin Bieber recently.
"I feel really bad for him," "The Talk" cohost told the Daily Beast. "There's this little kid with a huge dream, he's cute, girls love him, and he wants to be a mean boy, and he's about as mean as a (expletive) kitten, and he's trying to act out. It's like (urinating) in a bucket. It's like, 'Oh, we're the bad boys!' (Expletive) off! You don't know what bad is."
Osbourne wasn't done by a long shot.
"And I think that he's lost, I really do. I think he doesn't realize he's white and not black, that's a huge problem. And, at the point he's at in his career, it's so dangerous because we've seen it all before a million times. Where do you go when you're a child entertainer and then you want to transition to be a man? Very few make it."
Right. Like that kid Michael Jackson, remember him? He didn't get very far.
And because she was already talking, Osbourne took some shots at Kanye West. "I have no time for him. He bores me. I said it on the show, he's an average-looking man with an average talent, but he's a great salesman. He should sell cars because they would (expletive) fly out the door. He's his No. 1 fan."
Sharon Osbourne is funny.
She then moved on to Anthony Weiner and his latest sexting scandal.
"I think he wrote something on his penis and sent a picture of it. Was it 'Big Dirty'? Fabulously insane. I mean, this guy is out of his (expletive) mind. What is going on? We've got the mayor of San Diego and the guy running for mayor of New York City, and they're both out of their (expletive) minds!"
"I'd like to slap him," she continued. "He did a news interview today where he seemed so smug and said he only wanted to talk about issues. You want to talk about issues while you sent a picture of your (penis), with writing on it?"
Osbourne did say something nice about her daughter Kelly's engagement to Matthew Mosshart. "We're very, very happy."


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There's a simple trick for advisors to figure out whether an actively managed mutual fund tracks its benchmark index too closely. Ever hear of R-squared?
R-squared, a measure that shows how much a fund moves in sync with an index, is a quick way for an advisor to compare an actively managed fund with an exchange-traded fund that makes no secret of index tracking. Knowing a fund's R-squared number can help advisors determine whether the higher cost of an actively managed fund versus an ETF is worth the extra investment dollars.
For example, the S&P 500 index has an R-squared of 1.00 because its movements rise and fall in sync with the S&P 500 100% of the time. This suggests that an actively managed large-cap equity mutual fund whose R-squared approaches 1.00 is unlikely to be a good value, considering how much more cheaply an advisor can purchase similar shares in an ETF.
"Active managers can become too index fund-like, and therefore you're paying fees for a closet indexer," said Howard Present, president and chief executive of F-Squared Investments, Newton, Mass., which saw more than $4 billion in net inflows for 2011. "It's safe to say no one has ever accused us of being a closet indexer because we have the ability to change the profile of the portfolio a lot, which we do. Certainly, in 2008, when we were 50% in cash and the only two active sectors we had were Consumer Staples and Utilities, it didn't look like the S&P 500."
F-Squared serves as investment manager for the Virtus Premium AlphaSector Fund (VAPAX), launched in 2011, using Select Sector SPDR ETFs as the basis of a strategy that invests in long-only U.S. equities and short-term Treasuries. VAPAX has a relatively low R-squared of 0.696. In comparison, the storied Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX) has an R-squared of about 0.91.
Beating or Mirroring the Benchmark?
Many data providers, including Morningstar, Bloomberg and Yahoo! Finance, list a fund's R-squared in their risk metrics. For example, Yahoo! Finance's risk profile of the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) ETF shows an R-squared of 1.00 on the fund's modern portfolio theory statistics page.
In an April 9 note, S&P Capital IQ noted that all funds use a benchmark index to track their relative performance, and the fund manager's compensation often depends on the fund beating its benchmark. But active fund managers risk taking this concept too far by attempting to mirror its index, S&P Capital IQ warns.
"In our view, one of the primary functions that an actively managed mutual fund portfolio manager serves is to add value by differentiating him or herself from their respective benchmark index," wrote the S&P Capital IQ equity analyst Michael Souers in a note for Standard & Poor's MarketScope Advisor. "There are too many low-cost products, ETFs and index funds, that can track the index closely, so why would an investor pay the relatively higher expense ratio of an actively managed fund to achieve virtually identical returns?"
'A Good Argument to Avoid a Large-Cap Active Fund if the Expense Ratio Is High'
When asked in a phone interview with AdvisorOne what a "good" R-squared number might be, Souers said it depends. For equity funds that track large-cap companies, it's hard to stray too far from the S&P 500, but small-cap stocks don't correlate as much, so they're likely to have a lower R-squared. That said, anything below an R-squared of 0.85 may be considered a low number, he said.
"It's a good argument to avoid a large-cap active fund if the expense ratio is high or the fund has loads," Souers concluded. "The compensation of a portfolio manager of an actively managed fund is so closely tied to beating a benchmark. That whole scenarios lends itself to less risk taking. If they have a bad year and they underperform the benchmark by 400 or 500 basis points, they worry that their job is at risk."
In his note, Souers pegged the Thrivent Large Cap Stock Fund (AALGX) as having the highest R-squared, at 0.99, of any of the funds that met all of his screening criteria.
"As one might expect, the fund's top-10 holdings include widely held names such as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Amazon.com," Souers wrote. "AALGX holds what we view as a substantial 123 stocks in its portfolio. AALGX has underperformed its Large Cap Core peers over the past one-year, three-year, five-year and 10-year periods, with a 350 basis point underperformance over the one-year period (0.9% versus 4.4%). While the fund's expense ratio is below peers (1.1% vs. 1.2%), it is well above the expense ratio of most index funds and ETFs."
Company officials at Thrivent did not respond to requests for comment.
Read S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall's Seven Rules of Wall Street Investing From the IMCA Conference at AdvisorOne.


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did you manage to find the others too, nick, at the show (or at other shows, or at retail - yeah right) or do you still need them? not that i have any extras, but i was just curious.
Did these come on Canadian Cards? If so, was their availability the same as US Cards?DBK
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Reps for Harlem legend Bobby Robinson have confirmed that he died last week at 93 after being ill for several years.
The South Carolina native was recognized throughout New York City for his shop, Bobby's Happy House, the first black-owned business on 125th St.
Robinson's legacy consists of his work with music legends such as Doug E. Fresh, the Furious Five and Spoonie Gee.
several labels such as Red Robin, Whirlin' Disc, Fire, Fury and Enjoy, Robinson collected an extensive catologue including the likes of The Furious Five's "Superrappin'," The Treacherous Three's "Feel The Heartbeat" and The Fearless Four's "Rockin' It."
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What do we actually mean by cinematic story?
Why the search is necessary?
Nilanjan Bhowmik starts by taking a broad look at screen stories.
Anyone who's been to the pictures will have a perfectly good notion of how screen stories operate. For example, most of us are pretty clear that we like particular movie genres: we might like Romantic Comedies and hate Science Fiction or vice versa. And we know that movies from these genres produce a certain response in us: Comedies, make us laugh; Horror movies will scare us, and so on. So we may not think about it, but we see most movies with a pretty good idea of what to expect from the story.
But other, more general, aspects of the movies are so ingrained in us that we may remain unaware of them. We instinctively know the pace and rhythm of movies; we know the common qualities, sometimes called conventions, of our favourite genres; and we know that the story's primary 'question' – the "what's this about" – will be resolved before the movie can end.
And we unconsciously know that other aspects of the movies will usually happen, but not always. For example, we know that the hero will be tested before he or she earns their happy ending; that our major characters will usually change or develop over the course of the film; and that love always seems to win out.
It's the screenwriter's job to craft a story that responds to this mix of familiar conventions and audience expectations – and find a way to make it feel fresh and original.
So, in this case we expect you not to be a story writer only,
We expect you to become a Screen Story Teller who can imagine and visualize the movie in front of his/her eyes pretty long before.
That's the key.
….. to be continued.
Basic characteristics of screen story
First, screenwriting is a dramatic form, which means that we're creating a script for actors to perform in front of the cameras. So, a screenplay is often similar to the script for a stage play. It's constructed with "Dramatic Action", a term that refers to character movement with consequence. It builds the story on a certain sort of causality. E.M. Forster once remarked that, "The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then the queen died of grief is a plot." i Most movies are built around a plot.
And, the story is constructed to take advantage of the considerable power of cinema. The visual experience happens to us. It can be grand, perhaps in the films of David Lean; overwhelming in the sci-fi worlds of Ridley Scott; or evocative, as in the films of Lynne Ramsay or Andrea Arnold. Colm Toibin, whose novel Brooklyn was recently adapted into a film, remarked that Saoirse Ronan's character Eilis was able to convey fifty pages of character development in a single look. It was Nick Hornby's screenplay that set up that 'look'.
A movie story is told 'in the cut', or in the editing process. The film will be composed of many short fragments of action that come together. The screenwriter uses this fragmentary process to shape the rhythm and pace of the story.
And the movies are able to 'multi-track', telling its story in many ways. For example, we will see the action, but we can also hear speech in the story world and hear it as voice over.
All in all, it's a very powerful medium. But it does have limitations, too. It's an external form, so we see what characters say and do, but we aren't privy to their thoughts and feelings, as you might be in a novel. It's up to the screenwriter to create action that implies the character's inner life, to make that inner life accessible to us.
And in most cases, it all hinges on the characters: movies work when the characters are compelling. In most cases, we, as audience, will empathise with a character so deeply that we become immersed in the action. It needn't even be a sympathetic character, such is the power of this immersion, as we will gladly empathise with a sociopath and murderer, as in The Talented Mr Ripley. The story is capable of pitting our hearts against our minds, with our hearts usually winning.
Developing stories
The problem for us, as writers, comes in finding and developing the stories.
David Mamet, the playwright and filmmaker, once remarked that, "Stories happen because somebody wants something and has trouble getting it." Let's take a quick look at this simple format:
• The "Somebody"… gives us a character. Not just a name, but a person in a specific place, at a specific time, living a specific life.
• The "Wants Something"… gives us a goal, the 'story question' that will be what this film is 'about'. Sometimes this is an opportunity to do something that the character wants: to travel, to climb a mountain, to woo the person of their dreams, and so on. And sometimes it's a dilemma forced onto the character: to flee the alien invasion, escape the stalker or survive a Tsunami. And it might be largely internal, for example in a story built around a character battling grief.
• And "Has Trouble Getting It"… gives us the conflict. It provides obstacles that the character must overcome to achieve their goal. These obstacles will ask difficult questions, and the response will come to change and define the character.
Put these three elements together, and you have the makings of a basic storyline. We often use this approach to create a movie logline, or one-sentence synopsis.
To this I want to add one more question: What's great about it? What's exciting about this? That's the key. Why is this material compelling? To You ?
I think that makes a good place to start.


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Understanding the Seven Trumpets of Revelation – God's Purpose
God's Wrath and Mercy during the Seven Trumpets If separated from the larger context of this book, this chapter could make God appear to be very cruel and unfairly harsh – so please read subsequent chapters as soon as possible! The devil delights in distorting the character of God whenever possible. The devil wants people


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Safer streets: Crackdowns, crosswalks help peds
Flashing lights, talking crosswalks, and police stings against driver in crosswalks– it's a welcome new world for pedestrians less than a year after a city committee recommended $700,000 in safety upgrades.
"I'm very grateful to the city for taking the time and helping to create an overall change in the relationship between pedestrians and drivers," says activist Kevin Cox.
While he's delighted by crosswalk and sidewalk improvements, including the new electronic gizmos, Cox says he's particularly happy that police have begun staking out crosswalks and ticketing drivers who fail to yield.
Between January 1 and April 21, officers ticketed 43 such drivers– a more than 600 percent increase over the previous year's period, when only seven tickets were issued.
It can be a matter of life and death, as, in the past eight months,at least six pedestrians have been struck on city streets– one fatally. But as recently as last summer, when police went on to private property to bust people walking over train tricks, the City actually seemed to be ticketing pedestrians more than drivers. So Cox welcomes the new crackdown on drivers.
"If it's well publicized," he says, "it will encourage people to obey the laws."
Pedestrian safety leapt in the public consciousness after two particular incidents in the autumn of 2007. In one, an officer arrested a man who shouted at a police officer turning into a dark crosswalk. Later, a wheelchair-bound pedestrian named Gerry Mitchell was struck by a police cruiser in another crosswalk in daylight–- and then issued a ticket while he was in a hospital.
Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo, who defended his officers in both incidents (and who did not immediately return a reporter's call), faced scrutiny from City Council, which launched a Pedestrian Safety Committee in March 2008.
Eight months after that Committee issued recommendations, traffic engineer Jeanie Alexander says she's pleased to be executing them–- and proud of using public works staff.
"It's been a huge cost savings," she says.
Meanwhile, Mitchell says his already-precarious health worsened from his injuries, and while he's pleased the City has taken the measures, he believes that any City officials should find the new devices don't always buy enough time to cross streets.
"They need to go with someone that's physically challenged," he says, "and they'll see the problems."
Even with various unfixed details, activist Cox–- previously known for vociferous criticism–- is now singing a different tune.
"I think Charlottesville is going to be on forefront of pedestrian safety if they keep it up," he says, "and I'm excited about that."
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The Hook deserves credit for shining light on this issue--this is journalism at it's best
As long as there's right-turn-on-red, pedestrians will not be safe in crosswalks.
Enforcement of our laws in wonderful and appreciated. I would also like to ask the pedestrians' help also: Please remember to push the walk button that is put at the end of some of the crosswalks. Please do not stop to chat at the end of a crosswalk when you do not intend to cross...move away from the crosswalk to converse. Please do not arrange for your ride to pick you up "at the crosswalk," but move on down the street so not to give a mixed signal to drivers. If walking at dusk and/or at night please help in wearing some light clothing which is easy to see. When crossing at the crosswalk please get eye contact with the approaching drivers.
Only in a lib town like Cville could someone come up with a term like "the relationship between drivers and pedestrians." If I could drive along and have a relationship with pedestrians, I'd drive through the UVa Campus (NOT Grounds) and contract every STD in the book! Additionally, I am just super-duper pleased as punch that our officers are sitting idly at crosswalks as a new means to generate revenue. Do they also ticket the oblivious dolts carrying their covered-Lattes whilst crossing against the little red picture of the androgynous figure posturing to locomote forward (you know, the sign that used to simply say "DON'T WALK" versus "WALK."
George Carlin was spot on: the pussification of America!
quote: "Do they also ticket the oblivious dolts carrying their covered-Lattes whilst crossing against the little red picture of the androgynous figure posturing to locomote forward (you know, the sign that used to simply say ââ?¬Å?DON'T WALK" versus ââ?¬Å?WALK.""
Keep dreaming!
I have noticed the new pedestrian measures have cut down on the amount of police cars running over people though.


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Ditto's Mysterious Mansion (メタモンとものまねむすめ Ditto and the Mimic Girl) is the 37th episode of the Pokémon: Indigo League.
To evade a storm, Ash, Misty and Brock enter a mansion. Soon, they find a Pikachu and a trainer that look quite similar to Ash and his Pikachu. They are actually Duplica and Ditto, who copy others. Ditto, however, has one problem - it cannot copy the others' faces. Team Rocket steal the Ditto and attempt to correct this problem, planning to give it to the boss.
Episode plot
Ash, Misty, and Brock are walking along a path when it starts to rain. They take shelter from the rain inside a strange mansion. When they enter it, Pikachu starts playing with another Pikachu. Misty says the Pikachu looks cute and she picks it up, but she sees its face looks very weird, and she drops it, freaking out. Brock thinks the Pikachu might be a new kind of Pikachu. Ash tries to catch it, but a girl that is dressed exactly like Ash stops him. The girl says her name is Duplica and that the strange Pikachu is her Ditto. Ash reads Ditto's entry in the Pokédex and it says the only move Ditto can use is Transform. Ash thinks it's not a very good Pokémon since it can only transform and nothing else, so Duplica challenges Ash to a battle. Ash chooses Bulbasaur and Bulbasaur tried to attack with Razor Leaf, but Ditto transforms into Bulbasaur and uses Vine Whip, defeating Bulbasaur. Ash is surprised that he lost.
Duplica takes Ash and his friends to a room filled with costumes. Duplica goes through a rack and comes out dressed as Nurse Joy. She then goes through another rack and comes out dressed as Officer Jenny. Duplica explains that with all of these costumes, she can imitate anyone perfectly. Brock says that she doesn't have the adult charm of the people she's imitating. Duplica goes through a rack, comes out dressed as Misty, and imitates her perfectly (except the eyes: Misty has blue-green eyes, Duplica has brown eyes).
Ash is still upset that he lost to Duplica and Ditto. Ash wonders how he could have lost to a "fake". Brock explains that when a Ditto transforms into another Pokémon, it copies that Pokémon's moves. Misty says that with Ditto, Duplica could be a Pokémon Master. Duplica says she doesn't want to be a Pokémon Master, she just wants to be a Ditto trainer and a star.
A flashback happens and it shows Duplica and Ditto doing a performance for an audience. Duplica dresses up and imitates some Pokémon. Duplica explains to Ash and his friends that the reason she started doing shows was because she loved to imitate Pokémon. Back in the flashback, Duplica asks for a volunteer Pokémon to come up from the audience. A Machoke comes up and Ditto transforms into it, but its face stays the same. A Voltorb comes up next and when Ditto transforms into it, it still has the same face. People from the audience start to boo and yell that Ditto is a dumb Pokémon and can't transform right. Ditto, transformed as Voltorb, gets mad and uses Self-Destruct in retaliation for the insults.
Duplica says she stopped doing shows because people didn't want to see Ditto's messed up transformations, they want it done right. Suddenly, the lights in the mansion go out and a spotlight turns on on the stage. Team Rocket appears and the members, Jessie, James, and Meowth, say their motto. Ash claps, says the show is over and tells them to go home. Jessie explains that they're here to steal Ditto, Meowth grabs Ditto and Weezing uses Smog. The room fills with smoke and when the smoke is gone, Team Rocket has disappeared.
The scene cuts to Team Rocket who is in a small house. Team Rocket is celebrating because they have finally stolen a Pokémon. James pulls out a book on Pokémon and tells Ditto to transform into a Dratini, explaining that it'd make a handsome gift for the boss. Jessie says that before they send to the boss, they should have some fun with its transformation powers. Jessie holds a picture to Ditto's face and asks Ditto to transform into what the person in the picture would look like as an adult. James asks Jessie whose picture it is, but Jessie refuses. Meowth looks at the picture and notices its a picture of a boy. Jessie says it's a picture of her first boyfriend. Ditto transforms into the picture but it still has its own face. James and Meowth roll on the floor and laugh, saying her first boyfriend has an interesting face. Jessie beats them both up. When Jessie angrily yells at Ditto, the transforming Pokémon licks her face, and James and Meowth laugh again, only to receive another beating. She holds up the Pokémon book with the picture of the Dratini on it and asks Ditto again to transform into Dratini. Ditto transforms into the book instead but still has its own face. Team Rocket falls down, anime style. Jessie angrily screeches at Ditto, saying it'd better get it right next time or she will turn Ditto into jelly. Ditto starts whimpering nervously.
Back at the mansion, Ash and his friends are sitting in a circle around Duplica, who is upset. Misty tries to make Duplica feel better and tells her that Pidgeotto and Zubat are out looking for Ditto. Just then, Pidgeotto and Zubat return and they have found out where Ditto is. Duplica says she has a plan to get Ditto back.
Back at the small house, Meowth suggests that Ditto should try to transform into something easier and tells Ditto to transform into himself. Ditto transforms into Meowth, but it still has the same face. James says to Ditto that he had better get it right or he will regret it. When Meowth threatens to claw Ditto's stupid face off, in a panic at not wanting that to happen to it, Ditto rubs its face and it finally fixes its face, now looking exactly like Meowth, face and all. Ditto has finally learned to transform right! The lights go out and Ash, Misty, Brock, and Duplica are dressed in Team Rocket uniforms and they imitate the Team Rocket motto.
Ash and Misty now understand why Team Rocket always says their motto, because of its fun. Team Rocket is mad at them for using their motto, especially with the fact that Duplica said "ignite" instead of "unite". Ash, his friends, and Duplica demand Ditto back, but they can't tell Ditto and Meowth apart. Duplica starts crying and thanks Team Rocket for teaching Ditto how to transform right and it has become the Pokémon she has always hoped it would be. Team Rocket cries and they give one of the Meowth to Duplica and they leave with the other. Duplica yells that they gave her Meowth and not her Ditto and she chases after them.
Duplica throws Meowth at the Meowth balloon and Ditto bites Jessie's arm and jumps down from the balloon. Duplica catches Ditto and Jessie says its time for Plan B. She pushes a button and a cannon comes out from the bottom of the balloon. Ditto transforms into the cannon and fires Pikachu at Team Rocket, who shocks them terribly. Meowth claws the balloon in pain, causing Team Rocket to go blasting off again.
Ditto transforms back into its regular self and gives Duplica a hug. It then transforms into a perfect copy of Pikachu. Ash says Ditto did a great job and asks Duplica which Pikachu is his. Duplica says he needs to keep training. At the mansion, Duplica puts up a sign that says the House of Imite is reopened. Ash and his friends say goodbye to Duplica and Ditto and they leave. Ash says he wishes he could catch a Ditto because its all of the Pokémon in one.
Meanwhile in the forest, after their balloon got destroyed, Jessie and James attempt to dress Meowth as Dratini to present to the boss, but Meowth refused to because it won't work. He clawed Jessie and James for forcing him to dress as a Dratini. This badly angers Jessie and James as they beat up Meowth for clawing them.
- "Very good, but she doesn't have the adult charm of the real Joy and Jenny." - Brock after Duplica imitates Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.
- "Team Rocket is NOT something to be made fun of, but if you're going to imitate us at least do it RIGHT!" - Jessie
- "To 'unite' all peoples within our nation, NOT ignite!" - James
- "How dare you touch my face!!"- Jessie
- "Just for that we'll turn you into a Grimer!!- James
- "Who's that Pokémon?:" Ditto (JP; US)
- In the English dub, audio from Jenny's appearance in "The Kangaskhan Kid" is used instead of an original line.
- As Duplica and Nurse Joy were both voiced by Megan Hollingshead, and Lee Quick would not be credited properly until Season 2, this caused a lot of confusion regarding the identity of Jenny's voice actress.
- At the end of the episode, on the first broadcast only, the preview for the globally banned and undubbed "Cyber Soldier Porygon" was shown. In subsequent rerun airings on Kids Station and on Amazon Prime Video, this preview is changed to the one for "Pikachu's Goodbye". Hulu's service in Japan retains the preview for "Cyber Soldier Porygon" as its versions are based on the first broadcasts.
- Even though "Cyber Soldier Porygon" was never aired in China, the Mandarin Chinese dub, which is based on the original Japanese version and therefore retains and dubs next episode previews, leaves in the preview for the aforementioned episode and dubs it, titling the episode as "電腦戰士3D龍" (Traditional)/"电脑战士3D龙" (Simplified).
- The Korean dub, which is based on the Japanese version as well, uses a preview for "Pikachu's Goodbye" too. However, it is not the same preview as used by the Japanese version on Kids Station and Amazon Prime Video Japan, and is created specifically for the Korean dub rather than being dubbed from the original Japanese preview like it is in all other episodes. The Pokémon in the silhouette next to the text "다음화 예고" is kept as Porygon in this preview rather than being changed to the Pikachu pair like it is in the Japanese preview.
- When Ash and co are standing outside of the mansion, Ash's gloves are missing.
- When Misty goes to grab "other Pikachu", part of her left hand disappears for one frame.
Dub differences
- Ditto keeps its Japanese voice when it's transformed into Pikachu in the English version.
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Campus gropers told to look over shoulders
Then a few weeks ago I came across some signs near the university library giving tips to the campus gropers on how to keep getting away with violating women. Slightly puzzled by their intended meaning I tried sleuthing for the person or people who posted them. No one came forward, but my hunch is whoever put them up was using a sort of dark humour to slam the victim blaming discourses travelling through the university. I'm not sure how effective the signs were in offsetting the standard narrative of putting the responsibility on women after assaults take place. But, they definitely made me smile because I thought, "Hey, I'm not the only one who is fed up here!"
In case you have trouble reading the above sign it says:
ATTENTION GROPERS Based on recent incidents of men groping women on campus, the public has become increasingly concerned with risky groper behaviour. We have compiled a series of tips we think would help you. TIP #1: Frame your entire day, every day, around your groping If you are constantly brainstorming opportunities to grope, noting campus areas amenable to groping, and looking over your shoulder to avoid being caught groping, you can enjoy a life full of groping with impunity. Hey Women, Tired of making your life revolve around them? We are too.


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I am working in Visual Studio 2008 on a SSIS package. It is really frustrating that I get "Microsoft Visual Studio is Busy" message quite often. It almost happens every time I try to open a data source, destination, etc.
From what I can see it seems VS tries to save Items. Is there any way to avoid this auto save? Generally how can we get rid of this message and interruptions?


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A traveling performance piece visited the Tucson Museum of Art. The Shuttle is the creation of a diverse group of artists who explore the theme of mobility, and contrast man-made environments with natural landscapes.
The project brought together ten international artists, designers and researchers.
"Shuttle is a 21-day journey with ten people, a Chevy van, and 4,000 miles traveling from Tucson in a counterclockwise direction through the deserts of the American Southwest," said Mick Douglas, senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, and a performance artist interested in topics surrounding mobility. "We're perhaps in an epoch, where there's a shift from sedentary ways of thinking and living, towards a reengagement of the different levels in which movement is implicit in our lives."
Movement is a central theme of Shuttle, and each member of the team brought to the project a different set of skills as they made their way through the Sonoran, Great Basin, and Mojave deserts.
"Each person came to the situation with a project in mind… often those projects were thrown overboard very quickly because something else emerged, in the moment, of something of interest, and that became a project," said Beth Weinstein who is on the faculty of the UA's Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and also a member of the crew.
Weinstein said Shuttle presented the team with an opportunity to explore themes of movement, environment, and performance.
"(These are) performances that are happening not when you sit in an audience and watch, but where you walk right up to them and you walk around and by them," said Julie Sasse, chief curator at TMA. "This is very much in line with what is happening today in the world of art –dance, objects, poetry, all start to coalesce- and that's what is happening here."
For 21 days, as the Shuttle crew members covered more than 4,000 miles across desert landscapes, many of the insights gained were not witnessed by an audience. But according to the members of the crew the results of the experience will likely resonate far beyond the confines of the Chevy van.
"The collective group of people… the constellations wrapping around (the experience)… we're still in it… the notion of somehow having to conclude it is impossible and also somewhat undesirable," Weinstein said.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – Disney may soon use drones to enhance its nightly entertainment, according to three patents filed last week.
The patents indicate drones could carry marionettes, projection screens, and even act as flying pixels.
Al Ducharme runs Hoverfly Technologies, which designs and manufactures drones uses in film and television production all over the world. He says GPS technology would allow Disney to run identical shows nightly.
"For what they're going to want to do, they're going to want to preprogram flights to hold marionettes or large production screens," he said.
Ducharme said the smaller quad-copters start at around $1,000, and depending how elaborate and the lifting capacity, they can go well into six-figure costs.
And while some tourists expressed concern about the safety of drones flying overhead, Ducharme said the technology is reliable.
"I'm sure Disney will cordon off an area to fly drones over," Ducharme said. "With any kind of technology, be it a roller coaster or a drone, you have to take safety into consideration."
Disney said it has no comment about the pending patent.
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Sight singing is the ability to sing musical notation without the aid of an instrument. Sight singing is often called by the name sight reading, and includes the ability to audiate the notation, that is, to hear it in one's head. Sight reading sometimes refers to the ability to play music notation proficiently on an instrument upon seeing it for the first time without the need to practice it. Unfortunately, this other meaning includes no assumption of aural ability, as the skills required are knowing which keys need to be pressed or other physical processes executed. The meaning of "sight reading" is contextual- if you are referring to aural skills, musicianship, or ear training, then the meaning assumes full aural comprehension of the material. Singing the melody not only renders what you audiate, but also strengthens your ability to audiate.
The advanced sight reading generator above produces melodies in several time signatures, clefs, modes (major and minor) and keys. The user can specify these using a settings box. The lowest difficulty level focuses the range of the melody on the first five notes of the scale and uses note values no smaller than a quarter note. Higher difficulty levels expand the range of the melody, use smaller note values and more complicated rhythms, and introduce chromatic pitches. Musicians who are new to sight singing should begin with the simple sight reading generator, found here.
Like the simple sight reading generator, the advanced sight reading generator has a "count-off" button which counts off a measure and then covers each measure prior to singing it to encourage looking ahead and batching material. Admittedly, at the highest difficulty levels, a measure is too much information to batch.
Both simple and advanced sight reading generators allow anyone to print an entire page of examples (7 systems), or to display up to 4 systems at a time on the screen. In a classroom setting, you may try limiting the setting to just one key and one time signature, and then assign small groups to each different line simultaneously.
At SonicFit, we advocate the use of solfege for sight reading. Applying solfege syllables to each note of the scale helps to develop scale degree aural comprehension and facility. Scale Degree Ear Training and Scale Degree Notation are the corner-stone exercises of SonicFit's pedagogy. To develop aural skills, you should include those exercises in addition to the above sight reading practice. To find out more about SonicFit's Pedigogical Approach go here.


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Padavan has fought off the temptation to jump back into politics and regain his old seat, but the current unrest in the Democratic Party in this district could be an open door for a formidable GOP candidate.
The coming Democratic Primary means that the Queens County Republicans can sit on the sidelines and, for a change, watch another party engage in civil war. Avella has always been a Democrat with an independent streak, and when he joined a group of centrist Democrats who often caucus with Senate Republicans, county Democrats balked.
This leaves open a question: do parties want politicians to work across the aisle on pragmatic policy or do they want party loyalists? It's a dilemma for both parties. Winning a primary means being a loyalist. Being more connected to the people you actually represent means governing more in the center.
Avella defeated Padavan due in part because the strong middle class in the 11th District saw him as a conservative Democrat. John Liu is a strong progressive candidate, and by challenging Avella, he signals a potential change in the party itself.
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A race between Avella and Liu is welcome news for the county Republicans, who - if they can get their house in order - can spend some time gearing up for a real general election challenge. This is one of the rare places in New York City where a primary win does not automatically mean a general election victory for the Demcorats.
If Liu defeats Avella in a primary, it would also signify redemption for Liu, who saw his career momentum buckled by campaign finance inconsistencies. John Liu has more to win here than the Queens County Democratic Party does.
The party has the seat now, even if Avella is not a slam dunk on all issues. Even if they lose the seat, they can win it back eventually. Liu, however, has a lot more at stake. If he wins, he is back and the past is the past.
This is going to be high drama in the 11th from now until Election Day. Political junkies like to refer to the "invisible primary," which is an amalgam of endorsements. In the invisible primary, it will be interesting to see which established Democrats side with Liu and which side with Avella.
Memorial Day
What I always remember about Memorial and Veterans days is a conversation I had years ago with a friend named John Scola. Scola was a decorated Vietnam veteran who came back to the states and Long Island, first finding work in the bricklayers union and later as a technician in cable television, where we worked together.
He had a quiet, dignified, although a little unpolished, sense of ethics and right and wrong. He was a good advice guy on things like fishing and military matters. We lost John to a heart attack a few years ago, but one thing he said stood out.
He always felt that sports arenas and event spaces – especially those named after veterans – should offer veterans half-priced tickets to any and all events.
The Barclays Center should adopt this policy, and in a more obvious note, so ought the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. We cannot venerate our servicemen and women with the salaries of pro athletes, but we can make it easier for them to be courtside.


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The pulled pork at The Brick Pit. (Andy Staples)
MOBILE, Ala. – The folks who cover the NFL have grown so accustomed to big-city food that some – even the ones who came up in the profession covering the Lord's sport – have forgotten many of the basic rules of road dining. Somewhere near the top of the list is this one:
The quality of chain barbecue is almost always inversely proportional to the distance from the original location. This isn't Heaven Is A Buffet's third commandment, but it may get added if I get inspired the next time I climb Florida's Mount Dora.
When I arrived in Mobile last month to watch NFL scouts and writers ogle dudes in their underwear prior to the Senior Bowl, I was disappointed to learn that a large group had opted to get its barbecue fix at Dreamland. For the uninitiated, Dreamland is a mini-chain of barbecue restaurants based mostly in Alabama. It began as a small shack on Jug Factory Road in Tuscaloosa that sold only ribs and white bread. Though I believe properly cooked ribs require no sauce, Dreamland's sauce tastes so good that a D battery dunked in it would be at least edible and probably quite tasty. That shack is legendary. Its offshoots are most certainly not legendary. That sauce has covered a lot of mediocre barbecue in the past few years. (The original isn't even that great anymore, having long been surpassed by Archibald's in nearby Northport.)
I asked members of the Dreamland group to tell me who decided to opt for average barbecue when better local options existed. None would take credit for the idea. I've seen this phenomenon before. Eating at a Dreamland satellite location is like owning a Nickelback album. Plenty of people do it, but no one dares admit it publicly.
So I grabbed ESPN The Magazine writer Seth Wickersham -- who needed fine dining to celebrate the publication of this excellent story about tortured genius Bill Walsh and the book he wrote that inspires and maddens coaches across the country -- and we set off in search of Dreamland-slaying barbecue. Our path took us to The Brick Pit, a sagging house nestled in a cluster of trees less than a mile away from The Shed, another satellite of a more famous barbecue franchise. Right away, I knew the proprietors of The Brick Pit had the correct idea. On my way inside, I passed a sign near the door that fired a direct shot at the interlopers from Tuscaloosa.
More barbecue joints should talk smack at their competitors. It might spice up an otherwise collegial enterprise. Unlike most sportswriters, I'm not opposed to trash talk. It adds flavor. As long as no one talks about anyone's mama, smack away.
Another sign promised the "Best Smoked Barbecue in the Great State of Alabama." Clearly, we had entered the Deion Sanders of barbecue joints. And like Prime Time, The Brick Pit mostly backed up its boasts.
I haven't had a pulled pork plate at every spot in Alabama, but I believe The Brick Pit may be telling the truth about its superiority in that particular discipline. The pork chunks were thick and juicy and pulled so that most had at least a sliver of bark. It didn't need sauce, but the house's hot sauce – which, unlike most "hot" barbecue sauces, actually contained some capsaicin – only deepened the flavor. That pulled pork would taste great in a sandwich or alone on a plate. Hell, I'd fill a swimming pool with it and dive in if it were socially acceptable.
The ribs didn't live up to their billing, and I'm not quite sure why. The pork was obviously rubbed to perfection, so it made no sense that the ribs – while cooked perfectly – lacked flavor. Everything about them was ideal except the rub. I couldn't figure out if someone had skipped a step in the preparation process that day or if this was a conscious choice to satisfy diners who planned to dunk their ribs in the hot sauce anyway.
So while the ribs weren't the best in the Great State of Alabama – Archibald's remains the champ – the pulled pork might have a claim. Hopefully, The Brick Pit will keep talking smack to its competitors. Because the harder the pitmasters try to back up their words, the better everything will taste.
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Independence police seek clues in car crimes
Cars stolen, broken into in apartment complex lot
Independence police hope the public can help catch two people sought in a series of car burglaries.
Surveillance video from one location may provide key clues in the case. The men were walking through the parking lot at the Royal Oaks Apartments on a night where cars were damaged and stolen.
"Three (vehicles) just right in a row, and they broke out the passenger-side windows," said Malana Brumble, who said she saw the results of the crime spree. "They didn't take anything, you know, but they just busted them all out."
Brumble said trucks were stolen from the lot, too.
"One of them they found in Kansas, all burnt up," she said.
Dorothy Taylor, 91, said she has lived in the Royal Oaks Apartments for two decades. She said she has always felt safe in her apartment, but the parking lot is a different story. She said years ago, she even interrupted a car crime.
"I saw this car parked right there, and there were two boys. One boy was in it, and the other one was breaking into my car in broad daylight," she said.
The latest round of break-ins happened at night.
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Pension funds urge JPMorgan Chase to oust Dimon as chairmanFebruary 20, 2013: 4:51 PM ET
"Give up the chairman role Jamie Dimon." That's what a coalition of investors in four major pension funds told JPMorgan Chase's (JPM) board Wednesday. Dimon has served as the bank's CEO and chairman since late 2006.
The coalition, which includes the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds as well as the New York City Pension Funds, called on the bank to name an independent board chairman. Shareholders will vote on this plan at the company's annual meeting in May. The bank had no comment about the proposal.
The pension fund group cited concerns over "the board's oversight in the wake of the London Whale losses, recent regulatory sanctions, and its failure to fully demonstrate that it can manage the size and complexity of its balance sheet."
In its press release, the pension coalition cited "clear conflict of interests" when a CEO essentially runs its board of directors as chairman. The group also noted that both the board of directors and Dimon signed off on risk controls that ultimately failed to catch errant trades by the so-called London Whale that have led to at least $6 billion in losses.
Related: Dimon: 'Life goes on' after 'Whale' loss
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Most big company CEOs still serve as the chairman as well. But that is slowly changing. In 2012, 21.5% of S&P 500 firms had an independent chairman, compared to 18.1% in 2010, according to the proxy advisor firm Institutional Shareholder Services.
JPMorgan's board has already slashed Dimon's 2012 bonus by 53% -- citing the losses from London Whale trades. The prior year Dimon had been the best paid bank CEO.


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CTP Configuration for Study Distribution
This article describes how the CTP application can be configured to distribute patient studies to referring physicians and researchers. The intended audience for this article is system administrators. There are several articles on CTP on the RSNA MIRC wiki. All would be useful references when reading this article.
1 An Example Use Case
Many hospitals distribute digital examinations to referring physicians by producing DICOM CDs. The cost and time to produce and distribute these CDs, along with the lack of standardization of the software viewers for them, has limited their acceptance by referring physicians.
This section describes a CTP configuration with these features:
- Studies are transmitted from modalities or PACS via the DICOM protocol.
- Studies are partially anonymized to remove unnecessary PHI (though not all PHI).
- Studies are stored.
- A user account is automatically created, if necessary, for the patient when a study is received.
- Patients can view their studies at a web browser.
- Patients can download and/or delete their studies.
- Patients can make their images available to their physicians, either by providing their credentials to their physicians or by granting their physicians guest access to their studies.
- Administrators can grant physicians guest access to a patient's studies on behalf of the patient.
- The system can automatically remove studies older than a specified age.
2 The Configuration File
The configuration of a CTP instance is specified by an XML file called config.xml located in the same directory as the program. See the main wiki article for details on how CTP processes data objects and all the standard pipeline stages that are available. This section describes only those standard stages which are necessary to implement this application, and only those attributes which are required to provide the necessary features.
<Configuration> <Server port="1080" /> <Pipeline name="Pipeline"> <DicomImportService name="DICOM Import Service" class="org.rsna.ctp.stdstages.DicomImportService" root="roots/dicom-import" port="104" /> <DicomAnonymizer name="DICOM Anonymizer" class="org.rsna.ctp.stdstages.DicomAnonymizer" root="roots/anonymizer" script="roots/anonymizer/scripts/da.script" quarantine="quarantines/anonymizer" /> <FileStorageService name="File Storage Service" class="org.rsna.ctp.stdstages.FileStorageService" root="storage" timeDepth="90" fs-name-tag="00080020" auto-create-user="yes" port="80" require-authentication="yes" quarantine="quarantines/storage" /> </Pipeline> </Configuration>
2.1 Server
The configuration file places the CTP admin web server on port 1080. This web server is used by administrators to monitor the status of the system. The choice of 1080 rather than the standard port 80 is made to preserve port 80 for the FileStorageService's web server.
2.2 DicomImportService
The configuration file puts the DicomImportService on the standard well-known DICOM port, (104). The DicomImportService accepts all Application Entity Titles, so when configuring the transmitting systems (modalities or PACS), any AE Title can be used.
2.3 DicomAnonymizer
This stage is included in the pipeline to allow unnecessary PHI to be removed before storage. An example of what might be done is to replace the patient's name with his initials (using the @initials function. The DicomAnonymizer provides many functions. See The CTP DICOM Anonymizer for the excruciating details. If anonymization is not required, this stage can be removed from the configuration file.
2.4 FileStorageService
The root attribute can point to any location where the FileStorageService can build its directory structure. It is shown in the configuration above as a relative path from the CTP directory (the directory in which the CTP application runs) to the storage directory. An absolute path may be specified instead, and that path can be on a shared drive on another computer if so desired.
The fs-name-tag attribute is critical to the operation of this application. It is specified to point to the DICOM PatientID attribute. This causes the FileStorageService to create a separate tree of directories for each patient and to store all the patient's studies in that tree. Since access is restricted by such trees, this ensures that each patient can only see his own studies. For more information on the organization of directories, see the notes in FileStorageService.
The timeDepth attribute is included with its value set to 90. Studies older than 90 days will then automatically be deleted. If permanent storage is desired, the attribute should be set to zero.
The FileStorageService web server is enabled in this configuration by specifying a port attribute. The value, 80, assumes that this will be the most convenient port for users.
The require-authentication attribute is required to ensure that only authorized users can view studies. More information on access to studies is contained in The CTP FileStorageService Access Mechanism.
The auto-create-user attribute is included so that the system will create user accounts for users as their studies are received. This is only an administrative convenience. Administrators can use the User Manager servlet on the main admin web server to create and manage accounts at any time.


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As mentioned in an earlier blog I am transcribing obits and society notes from my mother-in-law's scrapbooks. The one I am working on now is the scrapbook of Mary Lufanny Puff who died in 1898. The scrapbook was continued by her daughter, Mrs. Ada Horton, passed down to her daughter, Edith Horton, and then to Kathryn Cutter Maki. I found the circumstances surrounding the timing of Mrs. William's funeral interesting and thought I would share with my readers.
Sudden Death – Mrs. Sarah Emily Williams, wife of the late D.A. Williams and daughter of Benjamin Atwater of this place, dropped dead of heart disease while visiting at the residence of P.S. Dudley in Newfield on Friday last. Mrs. Williams had but recently returned from the west and was apparently in her usual health when death called her hence without a struggle. The remains were brought to Ithaca, but in consequence of their life like appearance the funeral did not take place until Tuesday afternoon when all doubt as to her being in a trance was removed. The funeral services took place from the residence of her father, corner of Cayuga and Green streets, and was very largely attended. Deceased leaves one daughter besides a large number of relatives and friends to mourn her sudden death.