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Washington University v. Catalona Analysis
Washington University, a prominent private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, houses its own medical school, including a Division of Urologic Surgery (Division). Within the Division, physicians treat patients, teach students and residents, and conduct medical research on urologic diseases such as prostate cancer. [1] Dr. William Catalona, a highly esteemed urologist and researcher employed by Washington University, was instrumental in assisting the University in establishing and growing its Genitor-Urinary Repository, which houses approximately 100,000 biological samples. [2] In 2003, Dr. Catalona left Washington University and accepted a position at Northwestern University, where he intended to continue his prostate cancer research. Prior to his departure, Dr. Catalona sent a letter to approximately 60,000 research participants notifying them of his departure and requesting that recipients sign and return a form requesting that Washington University release their biological samples to Dr. Catalona. Approximately 6,000 subjects returned the signed forms. [3] Washington University asserted that it, not Dr. Catalona or the individuals who provided the samples, owned the samples. Washington University sued to establish its ownership of the biological samples. [4]
In March of 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri held that, Washington University owns the biological samples and the clinical data associated therewith, and that the research participants did not retain any interest in or ownership rights beyond the right to withdraw their clinical samples from the repository. Washington University successfully prevented Dr. Catalona from transferring the clinical samples to Northwestern University. [5]
An appeal was lodged by Dr. Catalona to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Eighth Circuit upheld the district court's ruling on June 20, 2007. [6]
The Eighth Circuit held that individuals who make an informed and voluntary decision to contribute their biological materials to a particular research institution for the purpose of medical research do not retain any ownership interest allowing such individuals to direct or authorize the transfer of such materials to a third party. [7] The court ruled that Washington University held sole ownership of the biological samples, and Dr. Catalona could not transfer the samples to a third party, even if he had the donors' permission. [8]
The court examined whether the research participants intended to part with the "right and dominion over the [biological samples] immediately and irrevocably." The court reasoned that the research participants must have intended to give the samples, irrevocably, to Washington University, because the research participants signed consent documents on university letterhead that characterized the transfer as a voluntary "donation" for use in studies by "Dr. William J. Catalona and/or colleagues," and received a brochure that characterized the samples as a "free and generous gift." [9] The court wrote that research participants "unquestionably delivered their biological materials" to the university, and the university "retained absolute possession." The court reached the conclusion that the research participants possessed present intent to make the gift to the university and delivered the samples, and that the university accepted the gift. [10]
The court did acknowledge that the research participants had a right to withdraw by destroying their samples from the database, but did not conclude that a right to transfer the samples can be implied from the right to withdraw. [11] The court noted that all informed consent forms expressly stated that research participants could discontinue their participation by having their samples destroyed upon request, but they did not state that participants could request return or transfer of their samples. [12] Furthermore, the court highlighted that some federal and state regulations prohibit the return of biological samples to research participants. [13]
Various factors supported the court's finding that Dr. Catalona did not hold an interest in the samples. First, numerous material transfer agreements and research agreements that both the university and Dr. Catalona had signed acknowledged the university's sole ownership of the biological samples. [14] Second, the university's intellectual property policy, to which Dr. Catalona was subject when he collected the biological samples, stated that "all intellectual property (including...tangible research property) shall be owned by the University if significant University resources were used or if it is created pursuant to a research project funded through corporate, federal or external sponsors administered by the University." [15] Finally, the university provided the majority of the funding for the maintenance and operation of the repository, and the remainder of the funding came from public and private grants to the university. [16]
Dr. Catalona and a group of his research participants filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, requesting the Supreme Court to review the Eighth Circuit's holding that donors of biological samples obtained in the course of biomedical research did not have a right to transfer ownership of such samples for one research institution to another. More specifically, their petition asked the Supreme Court to consider whether the federal Common Rule, which protects human subjects in federally funded research, prohibited the research participants from waiving their rights to their biological samples. The Common Rule prohibits institutions from obtaining consent for medical research on human subjects by using "any exculpatory language through which the subject...is made to waive or appear to waive any of the subject's legal rights." [17] Dr. Catalona's research participants signed a consent form that stated: "By consenting to participate in this research, I give up any property rights I may have in bodily fluids or tissue samples obtained in the course of the research." In essence, Dr. Catalona asked the Supreme Court to rule that the Common Rule prohibited the university from asking the research participants to waive their ownership rights, and therefore the research participants still owned the samples and could direct their future disposition. [18]
The Eastern District of Missouri addressed the exculpatory language argument, finding that the Common Rule's exculpatory language prohibition was limited to waivers or releases of liability, not ownership. The Eighth Circuit had not considered the effect or validity of such waiver language, because it felt such analysis was unnecessary in the context of a gift. [19]
The research participants also filed a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to consider the Common Rule issue from their perspective. In their petition, the research participants argue that they "expressly relied on the Common Rule to prevent a finding of transferred ownership." [20] They emphasized to the Supreme Court the potential adverse implications of the Eighth Circuit's ruling, such as the sale of biological samples to for-profit institutions that might release the research participants' genetic information, or the use of a research participant's sample for further research in a field that the participant does not support. Importantly, the research participants warned the Supreme Court that if the Eighth Circuit's decision is not overturned, research participants will be less likely to contribute their samples to a repository, since they will, in effect, be forced to relinquish control of their samples, and if they do contribute, they will be more likely to exercise their right to destroy the sample once it has been used for a narrowly framed purpose. [21]
Centralized Repository
At many institutions, individual investigators, individual clinical departments or other entities separately maintain biological samples and clinical data. Institutional officials and researchers often fail to communicate the existence of these samples and do not maintain proper documentation to demonstrate ownership. [22] The lack of centralized oversight and control: (1) undermines institutional claims of ownership; 2) hampers institutional efforts to make sure that biological samples are collected pursuant to compliant consent and authorization policies, procedures and applicable law; and 3) may impede researchers' ability to lawfully use the biological samples for future research if the samples are not collected and maintained appropriately. [23] Institutions should conduct an internal audit to determine where biological samples and clinical data are currently stored and what ownership documentation exists. They should consolidate such samples and data into a central repository that is established, maintained and controlled pursuant to institutional policies and procedures. [24]
Intellectual Property Policies and Agreement Provisions
As noted by the Eighth Circuit, the agreements to which both Dr. Catalona and Washington University were a party expressly stated that samples were owned by Washington University. [25] The university's intellectual property policies also expressly stated that "tangible research property" is owned by the university. The court's reliance on these factors demonstrates the importance of laying the groundwork for any ownership claims through the use of express policy and agreement language. [26] Institutions should revisit their intellectual property policies and intellectual property agreement provisions to confirm that they expressly secure the institution's ownership rights to biological samples and associated clinical data vis a vis clinicians and researchers.
Informed Consent and Authorization
A properly worded clinical care and research informed consent and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L.104-191) authorization are essential. [27] Institutions will need to carefully balance the competing messages of the Eighth Circuit and the Common Rule concerning the ability of patients and research participants to transfer their ownership rights to their tissue. [28] Institutions need to review their informed consent and HIPAA authorization forms, as well as their HIPAA policies, procedures and forms to confirm that they (1) properly characterize any transfer of biological samples or clinical data as a donative gift, and state to whom the materials are transferred in order to provide the institution with flexibility to use the biological samples and data; and (2) make clear that individuals only retain the right to withdraw their biological samples from the research at any time, and language that appears to waive the subject's rights should be carefully reviewed in light of the Common Rule's prohibition against exculpatory language. [29] The review for these purposes should also focus on whether the form clearly allows use of specimens for research (particularly if the form is a consent for clinical care as opposed to research). Centralized Repository at many institutions, individual investigators, individual clinical departments or other entities separately maintain biological samples and clinical data. Institutional officials and researchers often fail to communicate the existence of these samples and do not maintain proper documentation to demonstrate ownership.
The lack of centralized oversight and control: (1) undermines institutional claims of ownership; 2) hampers institutional efforts to make sure that biological samples are collected pursuant to compliant consent and authorization policies, procedures and applicable law; and 3) may impede researchers' ability to lawfully use the biological samples for future research if the samples are not collected and maintained appropriately. Institutions should conduct an internal audit to determine where biological samples and clinical data are currently stored and what ownership documentation exists. [30]
Ownership of Biological Materials
Do individuals who make an informed decision to contribute their biological materials voluntarily to a particular research institution for the purpose of medical research retain an ownership interest allowing the individuals to direct or authorize the transfer of such materials to a third party? Under the facts of this case, the answer is no.
As the debate continues and key legal and ethical questions are addressed, universities, hospitals and research institutions should take steps to confirm that (a) their repositories comply with applicable law, (b) policies and procedures are in place with respect to necessary consent and authorization for creation and use of tissue and data repositories, and (c) intellectual property ownership expectations are clear and understood by patients, clinicians and researchers. [31]
In deeming Washington University the owner of the biological samples, the district court found all research participants donated their biological materials to the university as inter vivos gifts. [32] In addressing this issue, the court quoted the substantive law of Missouri, which defines an inter vivos gift as "a voluntary transfer of property by the owner to another, without any consideration or compensation as an incentive or motive for the transaction.". [33] As the party claiming the existence of an inter vivos gift, Washington University bears the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence there was (1) present intent of the donor to make a gift, (2) delivery of the property by the donor to the donee, and (3) acceptance of the gift by the donee, whose ownership takes effect immediately and absolutely. [34] The research participants unquestionably delivered their biological samples to Washington University at the time of their donation.
For the foregoing reasons, the court affirmed the well-reasoned opinion and judgment of the district court.
The court stated that the "sole issue determinative" of the lawsuit is ownership and ruled that Washington University was the sole and exclusive owner of all biological samples and associated clinical data in the Repository and that investigators and research participants have no legally recognized ownership right. [35]
Under Missouri law, the court found that it is "well-established that exclusive possession and control of personal property is prima facie evidence of ownership and anyone else claiming such property bears the burden of proof." [36] The court found that it was "undisputed" that Washington University had been in "exclusive possession" of the Repository, in part because the University was solely responsible for the maintenance of the Repository housed on University property and because the University signed all material transfer agreements pursuant to which outside parties could request samples from the Repository for research at the discretion of the University. Further, the court noted that the University had consistently asserted its ownership interests in the materials stored in the Repository through its intellectual property policy. [37] The court stated that the University "alone bears all legal, regulatory and compliance risks associated with respect to all research done in connection" with the Repository. It found no compelling federal authority prohibiting Washington University from asserting an ownership interest in the samples in the informed consent pursuant to which the research participants provided the samples. [38]
The court characterized the research participants as providing an "inter vivos" gift to the University. The court rejected Dr. Catalona's arguments that (a) the exculpatory language in the informed consent forms invalidated the gift, and (b) that the research participants' right to discontinue participation included a right to control and transfer the provided samples. In addition to setting forth the legal basis for its conclusion, the court also outlined public policy considerations supporting its decision. [39] First, "medical research can only advance if access to these materials by the scientific community is not thwarted by public agendas," and such open access is best assured by placing responsibility for and authority over biological samples with institutions. [40] Second, if research participants were able to direct all future uses and recipients of biological samples they provided, biological samples "would become nothing more than chattel going to the highest bidder." [41] Third, it is "antithetical to the goals of science and public health to allow research participants to direct the recipient or beneficiary of the sample" and doing so would be "tantamount to a blood donor being able to dictate that his/her blood can only be infused into a person of a certain ethnic background." [42] The court's public policy discussion also suggests the view that institutional rather than individual ownership would avoid the buying and selling of human tissue to the highest bidder. [43]
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In 2011 we introduced Information Literacy to the subjects offered to year five and year six. We combined two separate subjects, Library and ICT. Information Literacy for year five and year six at Braemar College is a subject which incorporates traditional library skills and ICT skills. It is taught over three eighty minute periods a fortnight. Students undertake the subject for the entire year. The classes are taught in the MNIRC (Marcel Nyeholt Information Resource Centre) using the library classroom, resources and computer lab. It is taught by teacher-librarians, myself and Mrs Belinda Dess. We produce workbooks for each semester. Students are marked on their workbooks and a major assessment piece each term.
In 2012 Braemar College adopted an iPad program for the whole school from year's five to twelve. This made a significant difference to the year five and year six Information Literacy subject. Teaching staff were encouraged to incorporate the use of the iPad. Belinda and I were keen to exploit the teaching and learning potential of the iPad.
We are truly connected to the world beyond the four walls of the classroom.
Each student having an individual iPad made a difference to the types of software and apps we could teach and utilise. Now that the students each have their own individual personal learning device in their hands with instant connectivity to the world wide web, a host of apps, software and our college network. We are truly connected to the world beyond the four walls of the classroom. We still had the computer lab of desktop computers in the MNIRC to utilise as well.
Year five students are given basic instructions on using the Pages and KeyNote apps and other apps used in Information Literacy, as they are our entry level students into the College. The Year six students have their skills in each app extended.
In 2011 we had taught Microsoft Office Word and PowerPoint. We had also used MovieMaker. Now we introduced Pages (word processing) and Keynote (presentation tool).
Using their iPad, students are required to produce digital products. Students use various apps to create products which can be displayed, published and shared. Some of the key apps we use are outlined below.
Students produce a variety of documents. Students learn to use the iPad keyboard and features of Pages - copy, paste, import picture, etc. Year five create environment poems. Learning about layout, font, text and design features.
Description In this subject students will undertake studies in information literacies. This will include studies of an individual author, visual literacy, digital citizenship, non-fiction and information research skills. Emphasis will be placed on developing a variety of information and communication technology skills. There will be a focus reading and enhancing the enjoyment of literature.
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Year five and year six students make Keynote presentations which are displayed on our big screen television in the MNIRC. The students enjoy seeing their created presentations on the big screen. They can see how the design features and information are viewed by a wide audience. Presentations can be exported and emailed from the KeyNote App in either KeyNote or PowerPoint format.
Year five and year six produce their own books using the Creative Book Builder app. The Creative Book Builder app allows students to publish in epub format to their iBook's shelves or PDF, or use a website hosting linked via a QR code. In Year 6 students are taught to use the Creative Book Builder app to produce a book based on Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs. This is a visual literacy unit. Students research another country for Mr Chicken, or similar character, to visit. Some intensive research is involved. Students must find out about tourist destinations, language, food, transport and currency. The researched information facts must then be woven into a picture book format and story. Students enjoy reading each other's books.
Year six students produce their own book trailers using the iPad features, the inbuilt camera and the iMovie app. Students must produce a book trailer suitable for a Middle School audience. The iPad makes the book trailer unit easy. Before the iPad we would video on Flip Cameras, download the video to a desktop computer and edit it in MovieMaker. Now we can do everything on the iPad. The templates in the iMovie app are really useful. The iPad makes it much easier and faster to make the book trailers.
The students have the Scan the QR code reader app installed on their iPad as part of the required apps list. This has enabled me to enliven student's revision tasks. I have created quizzes using QR codes as clues and placed them around the MNIRC. The students enjoy the challenge of finding the QR codes and scanning them for information. Students can also read the QR codes that are now appearing in some books and on promotional materials.
Students use this app to produce posters and storyboards. The app has lots of fun features which the students enjoy exploring, experimentation is encouraged.
The Garage Band app allows students to use great features to create music. Features include instruments, beats and voices. Student can easily record, create and edit sound files. As part of our Creator's Rights Common Sense Media Unit students write, produce and perform an original version of the 'Happy Birthday' song. The chipmunk voice sound effect is a favourite. The iPad allows all students to participate in this activity. They do not have to be musically talented.
Students and staff use the ReaddlleDocs app to manage their files and documents on the college network.
We have a student directory, S:Drive, which allows students to access a Subject Resources Folder where teachers can place documents, files, etc. There is also a drop box set-up which allows students to deposit completed work for teachers. The drop box is very useful as many of the media files are too large to email to staff. There is also a Collaboration folder where students can place work that is to be shared and worked on in groups. This is important as students can be held up from working on their projects if one student has all the work on their iPad or home directory. This was certainly an issue that I had before the Collaboration Folder was set up. Students have to be reminded to place the work in their groups' Collaboration Folder at the end of each session. The golden rule in using any technology is often evoked. 'Don't forget to back up your files'.
DayMap is our College daily organisation tool. It is, of course, accessible via the iPad. Teachers can upload lesson plans and files to their chosen class. Students have access to DayMap from school and home.
Using the iPads has meant that paper copies of documents have been cut to a minimum. I frequently PDF documents and place them on DayMap and on S:Drive. I can also produce detailed instruction handouts with screen shots and examples and not be concerned about how much paper I will be using. Students can copy the files and documents to their iPads.
Digital Citizenship is part of the Information Literacy curriculum. Students learn to blog and use netiquette. Students' blog book reviews can be found on the MNIRC blog. Having the iPad provides easy access to the communication opportunities afforded by blogs. Students participated in a Virtual Blog Tour with author Ian Irvine.
Students in year five and year six all participate in the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge as part of Information Literacy. The students can record their progress on their iPad whenever it is convenient. They do not have to wait to get to the computer lab. This is an example of the flexibility the iPad offers to the teaching and learning process for students and teachers. Many students are reading eBooks on their iPad, using iBooks and many other eReaders. Students have borrowing and reading time as part of each class. Braemar College now has a Wheelers eBook platform set up to accommodate students who like to read eBooks on their iPad.
In Year 6 students complete an individual research project which is a negotiated topic of their choice. It is great to see the students use the iPad for all aspects of the project - research, note-taking, drafting, editing and finally presenting. The students present their project to the class. The presentation must include the iPad. In this project we see the culmination of the students experience with utilising their iPad. The learning, creativity and confidence demonstrated in the presentations are very gratifying.
In the early stages of the introduction of the iPad program we had some issues with the wireless network which caused some frustration. However these issues have now been addressed. The lack of a drop box was also a problem. It meant students had to email work to teachers which caused email inboxes to fill to capacity at times. Now we have the drop box system the email issue has been addressed. The only current issue I have is using the data projector with student iPads. The general purpose classrooms have AppleTVs installed in them. The library classroom does not yet have an AppleTV installed. Connecting an iPad to a data projector usually works well. Sometimes there are issues. Using a VGA connector works with the data projector with student iPad's except where the students have customised settings, or have a faulty connector port on their iPad. It can take a long time to connect to the data projector under these circumstances. I have also needed to find additional spaces outside the library for noisy activity such as filming dramatic scenes for book trailers. You need break out areas.
I am sure that I will continue to explore and exploit the teaching and learning potential of the iPad into the future. There are always new apps to discover and engaging ways of incorporating the iPad into the classroom to be explored.
I love the iPad. I find it to be a fantastic teaching and learning tool and a great piece of technology. It is a one stop production tool for a myriad of products. Some samples of the student work may be viewed at the MNIRC blog.
The iPad enables a connected classroom.
The iPad enables a connected classroom. It allows for flexibility in the classroom and variety, many different tasks can be undertaken. It has had a positive engaging effect on the teaching and learning in our year five and year six Information Literacy classes.
Clutterbuck, Peter M. (2008) Classroom Quiz Time, Book B. Christchurch: User Friendly Resources.
Cottrell, Rob (2010) Really Helpful Research Skills, Mascot, N.S.W.: User Friendly Resource Enterprises.
Cottrell, Rob (2010) Seriously Useful Information Skills, Mascot, N.S.W.: User Friendly Resources.
Digital Citizenship - using technology appropriately, Accessed at: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Resources.html
Christine Wilson is currently Learning Area Leader – MNIRC (Marcel Nyeholt Information Resource Centre) at Braemar College. Christine also holds a Master's in Business Information Technology from RMIT. Braemar College is a coeducational, ecumenical, independent, Christian school that caters for students in Year 5 to Year 12. It is situated in Woodend, Victoria. A qualified teacher-librarian of many years' experience Christine has worked in Government, Catholic and Independent schools. Throughout her career she has been an active member of SLAV and is currently a member of the Macedon Ranges and District SLAV Branch and their representative on SLAV Council. Christine has a great enthusiasm for ICT and believes students need to be fluent in multiple literacies, key areas for the MNIRC.


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Resurrection is the rising of a body or a soul after death to continue another life on earth or in heaven/hell.
When can resurrection happen?
- instantaneously - judgement and life begins again straight after death
- at world's end - everyone will be resurrected together and judged together
1. Resurrection of Jesus - empty tomb, disciple report of Jesus' resurrection of the body
2. actual bodily resurrection - body will be raised/resurrection of the soul
3. recreating you within a spiritual body
4. go to heaven/Jesus returns making earth perfect - like heaven
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- being in the presence of God
- place of transformation
- it's impossible to sin in heaven
- eschatological realisation (end of time) - you understand everything
- it's a community, without individual experiences
- place of the dead
- garbage dump
- dark, gloomy underworld (what people believe it to be like)
- separation from God
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- intermediate place - place between heaven and hell
- cleanses your sins
- stay for any length of time
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It's the best and worst of times for merchants in the consumer electronics space.
After nearly a decade of turbocharged growth in a variety of segments, overall the consumer electronics industry appears to be slowing despite demand for new electronics and technologies such as:
- Virtual reality
- Wearables
- Internet of Things
However, demand for tomorrow's consumer electronics in the medium term, according to research, is not likely to be great enough to offset stalling growth in traditional segments. The future, which promises new growth opportunities, can't come fast enough for merchants in this industry.
If you're in this space are you focused on the future?
Or are you too busy running your store, building a brand, or worst of all wasting time and money on a complicated ecommerce software that isn't reliable, easy to use, or able to scale on demand?
If you fit any of these bills, we have something special for you.
Introducing the Shopify Plus Industry Report for Consumer Electronics
We've imagined the future, so you don't have to.
The Shopify Plus Industry Report on consumer electronics provides merchants a behind the scenes look at the future of ecommerce and the trajectory, trends, and technology that are or will shape your vertical in the second half of the decade and thereafter.
We're proud to say the report offers insight and imagination for tomorrow and beyond.
The reports are thoughtful, beautifully designed, and structured in a way that allows even the busiest of merchants to quickly learn:
- The growth, geographic, and demographic trajectories of the vertical
- The trends influencing the vertical and creating new risks and opportunities
- The technologies that are likely to intersect and reshape the way commerce is conducted in the second half of the decade and beyond
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Use the Shopify Plus Industry Report on consumer electronics to obtain a deeper understanding of the state of your industry, its opportunities, and threats.
While overall consumer electronics industry growth is expected to slow to 1.5% in 2016 from years prior, opportunities for accelerated growth exist outside developed countries like the United States.
Emerging markets such as China and India, assuming manufacturers can offer electronics at affordable prices, are expected to grow at double-digit rates in the coming years. However, consumer electronics manufacturers will also likely confront strong headwinds currently impacting developed markets such as:
To many they're more important than sex.
But smartphones, despite growth opportunities in developing markets, now comprise a maturing market segment hampered by what some call a lack of innovation that has resulted in nearly half of those surveyed recently saying they're happy with their current phone and not planning to purchase a new one.
To offset this weakness, in part, consumer electronics makers are increasingly finding opportunity in the home.
The smart home segment includes:
What was a $7 billion dollar industry in 2015 is now forecast to grow to a more than $32 billion dollar industry by 2021:
The report also imaginatively outlines a future where tomorrow's technologies collide and create opportunities for commerce that may not even exist today. For instance, ultra-personalized customer experiences are being powered by next-generation beacons that recognize individuals. In turn, those are amplified by artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and next-generation wearables:
Or consider what might be possible in a future where context-aware consumer electronics devices are equipped to anticipate and predict a user's needs and actually improve a person's overall health.
Advances in machine learning, natural language processing, and technology that can detect our emotions as well as interpret personal health data in real-time will likely combine in ways that make it possible for next-gen consumer electronics devices to be context-aware on a much deeper level than they are today or will be in the near future:
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In addition to the research, insight, and future-looking angle of the report...
Our Industry Report on consumer electronics was created, in part, by merchants just like you.
It includes a discussion about the technology underpinning ecommerce and the role it ought to play in a growing business. Central in this discussion are actual Shopify Plus merchants who gave us their time and expertise to help us create this part of the report and generously reveal the secrets they wish they had known earlier in their ecommerce journeys:
The industry snapshots, shifts in consumer behavior, and emerging technologies briefly illustrated in the report have been included solely to provide you with actionable insight you can use to make data-driven decisions that powerfully differentiate your brand and help you intelligently chart a strategic course for the future.
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Bungalow is a new app that changes the way that home-schooled students connect with one another across the country. This app works with children of any age, from kindergarten through high school and works with whatever home-school system that family chooses to use and focuses on topics or specific items of learning.
Each week when a child or parent first signs in, they will be brought to a screen where they will type in the subjects that they will be learning about or working on for that week. The system will then connect them to other children across the country who are working on those same topics.
This will provide children many opportunities to meet new people, and learn valuable skills that they may be missing. Some example of how this app could be used are to collaborate and work on group projects or to video call and quiz each other, proofread papers, send helpful videos or links.
Because young children will be using this app, safety is a high priority. Parents have to ability to set parental controls and can monitor the activity on the app. These setting can be changed as children age and mature.
Parents have the ability to check up on their students and see what they are working on, who with and approve of connections or collaborations.


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What constitutes thriving in life, work and business is something that each person should define for themselves, based on things like their values, what matters most to them, the way they want to live and work, and how they want to feel.
Using your own definition of thriving to make decisions, choices and changes can keep you on the right path to feel you are thriving ongoing.
Even with that in place, there are some common obstacles to thriving that affect most people at some time. They include things like feeling overwhelmed, being over-busy and feeling like you don't have enough time.
To help you effectively deal with some of the most common obstacles to thriving in your life, work and business, here are five practical things you can do:
5 Ways to Thrive in Life, Work and Business
1. Commit to finding ways to eliminate or reduce what makes you feel overwhelmed.
All too often people accept feeling overwhelmed as just a by-product of modern day life and work. But it doesn't have to be.
Believing that overwhelm is just a part of the way things are can stop you from thriving. That is because it can lead to tolerating things that make you feel overwhelmed for weeks, months and even years, without taking action to do anything about it or to find a solution.
What you tolerate persists. Stop tolerating.
Make a decision to stop tolerating feeling overwhelmed and the things that contribute to that. Take some time to get clarity on exactly what is making you feel overwhelmed. Then, commit to being proactive with finding solutions for each one and take action to deal with them effectively.
You will feel you are thriving more in all areas of your life when you stop tolerating what doesn't serve you and focus on dealing with overwhelm proactively and effectively.
2. Take back control of your time
Often, people feel like they are not thriving because they are over-busy and don't have enough time.
But that isn't strictly true. Everyone has the same 24 hours. It is just that people who are thriving approach time with a different mindset, attitude, behaviours and habits than those who aren't.
Often the real source of the problem are things like trying to do more than is possible in the time you have, distractions, lack of planning, bad habits, poor personal effectiveness and weak boundaries for yourself and others.
This shows up in behaviours like overscheduling, not operating by a strategic plan and schedule, endless interruptions, taking on too much, not saying "no" enough, wasting time on things like email, Facebook, the internet, cell phones and binge watching TV etc.
So, the reality is that often people have given up control of their time, not that they don't have enough time.
All of the things that steal your precious time don't just happen without your consent. They are things you are allowing to happen. Choose to take back control of your time.
Eliminate distractions. Create good habits. Identify how you could improve your personal effectiveness.
Decide to stop wasting time. It is your most valuable asset. Treat it as such.
A good start point is to do a time audit. Keep a record of what you spend your time on each day. At the end of each week summarise it and review it. Use that information to look for changes you can make or things you can do to start taking back control of your time.
Deal with your time stealers effectively and you will start to feel like you are less busy and have more time.
3. Set strong boundaries and stick to them.
Strong boundaries protect what matters most. And when what matters most is protected you thrive.
On the other hand, when you have weak boundaries you are risking allowing what matters less to negatively impact things that matter more. That can sabotage the results you most want to achieve.
So, if you are really committed to thriving more in your life, work and business, look where your boundaries are weak, or even non existent.
Set strong boundaries that will support you with thriving. Implement them. Stick to them.
4. Create a structure and framework to get you on track and keep you on track.
People who are thriving in their life work and business have systems, procedures, rituals, processes and a strong structure and framework to work within. It supports them with thriving ongoing.
If this is an area you neglect start giving it some focus. What do you need to put in place that will help you thrive ongoing?
5. Make building and protecting mental and physical energy a priority.
You can't thrive in your life, work or business if you are constantly feeling mentally and physically wiped out.
Yet that is the state many people exist in.
Not only does that rob you of thriving, it also has a negative impact on countless other things like achieving goals, decision making, creative thinking, personal effectiveness, quality of work, communication and relationships, to name but a few.
When you start to prioritise the things that boost your mental and physical energy and address the things that drain it, everything transforms and you thrive.


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Review of regulatory requirements associated with basic science laboratories at the HSC
An informal audit summary
In response to many concerns raised by PIs across the Health Sciences Center, the Office of Research and Graduate Education has undertaken an informal audit of regulatory requirements associated with basic science laboratories at the HSC. In partnership with the offices of Research Integrity and Compliance (ORIC), Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and the HSC Information Technology Services group, we identified reductions in the scope, frequency and length of several requirements, while still ensuring compliance with federal, state and local regulations. The following summarizes outcomes of this audit to date.
I. Office of Research Integrity and Compliance
a. Conflict of Interest. CITI training for Conflict of Interest in Research must be completed every four years, and a brief Disclosure of Interest in Research form is submitted/updated annually. The first two sections ONLY of the CITI Conflict of Interest training modules are now required – Financial Conflicts of Interest: Overview, Investigator Responsibility and COI Rules, and Institutional Responsibilities as they Affect Investigators. The remaining three sections are considered OPTIONAL. This represents a reduction from three required modules to two.
b. Animal Care and Use. Researchers complete a subset of CITI training modules that are directly relevant to their research program and the species employed.
i. The number of required modules for Behavioral Researchers, Biomedical Researchers without Surgery, and Biomedical Researchers with Surgery were reduced by 50%. Refresher versions of these trainings are required every three years.
ii. Note also that in 2015 and 2016 the IACUC implemented multiple changes to the protocol submission and review processes that represent a significant reduction in the burden placed on PIs. For example, routine semi-annual laboratory inspections are only conducted where survival surgeries or terminal procedures are performed, or if the PI works with USDA-regulated species; annual reviews are only required for protocols that involve USDA-regulated species; literature searches for alternatives to painful/distressful procedures are only required if category D or E procedures are performed on USDA-regulated species; more protocol reviews are eligible for review by designated members rather than full committee, reducing the time needed for approval; several sections of the protocol forms were streamlined and appendices shortened or removed.
c. Human Subjects Research. During this audit, ORIC identified numerous IRB training modules that are not required by law. Specifically, Biomedical Research Investigators are now required to complete nine training modules (instead of 14). Refresher trainings for these investigators have also been reduced to six required modules (from 13). For Social and Behavioral Researchers, one module in the original training, and five modules (out of 13) in the refresher training are no longer required.
II. Environmental Health and Safety
d. Three comprehensive laboratory safety training modules previously required on an annual basis are now required upon initial hire, and subsequently ONLY if necessitated by changes to the research program, or identification of deficiencies in the laboratory. These modules are Hazardous Waste (RCRA), Hazard Communication and Laboratory Safety. Annually, PIs are required to read, and confirm their compliance with, a set of key laboratory safety principles. This change is expected to result in a significant time savings for established PIs.
III. HSC Instructional Technology
e. IT security awareness training is still required annually, however the training slide set has been reduced considerably (from 24 to 14 slides). One can also opt out of the training module and proceed directly to the quiz module.
IV. Streamlined workflow for researcher access to Epic electronic health records
f. Mallory Weaver (email@example.com) in the HSC Office of Research and Graduate Education coordinates requests for Epic access for research purposes, and ensures termination of access at project completion. She works with a Review Team and the HSC IT office to verify that requestors hold an active IRB-approved protocol and have completed HIPAA training.
We are committed to identifying additional means to move toward more efficient compliance with regulatory guidelines. As always, we welcome your input.


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Is seafood safe? Scientists raise questions, Houma Today, December 13, 2010:
Wilma Subra, an independent chemist from New Iberia who has being conducting seafood and soil sampling since the early days of the spill, said her tests have found high levels of organic petroleum hydrocarbons, chemicals from oil, in soils and in soft tissues of shrimp, crabs, fish and oysters.
She said she has also begun to find increasing levels of PAHs that have built up in the tissues of fish, shrimp and crabs as they feed on other oiled marine life.
Subra contends the federal government's testing is inadequate because the safety standard doesn't take into account the effect oil toxins could have on vulnerable populations like children, the elderly and sick people. …
PAHs are potent and volatile pollutants found in oil known to cause cancer and have a toxic effect on human organs.


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Negotiations begin for Dollar General on Main
By Judith Pannebaker BCC Editor
Pictured: Here's a peek at what's coming to the 700 block of Bandera's Main Street.
Clacking of beaks, flapping of wings and stamping of feet were evident on Tuesday, Nov. 19, when members of the City of Bandera Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) began negotiations for a Dollar General store slated for a portion of a large vacant lot on Main Street.
The idea is that the corporation or franchiser sends plans for the store to the city and, after a review, the city - in the form of P&Z - adds suggestions and recommendations and returns the plans to corporate headquarters or to the franchiser to await a second round of wheeling and dealing.
Developer Al Rajabi, who failed to bring a Best Western hotel to Bandera, sold a portion of the large city lot to the Dollar General corporation after a proposed Whataburger fell through.
The first item addressed on Nov. 19 by Chairman Tony Battle et al was the store's location on the lot. Preliminary plans called for a majority of parking in front of the building.
However, P&Z reached a consensus that the building should be moved forward toward the highway with most parking relegated to behind the structure. This would allow for a certain amount of head-in parking which is the norm on Main Street. "We want to keep business on Main Street uniform," said City Administrator Mike Cardenas.
Also, it was generally agreed that the building could use a better western design in keeping with recommendations in the city's master plan. P&Z also would like to extend the western motif to both sides of the stand-alone building, not just the front facade facing Main Street. "People on Cherry Street deserve better than [a metal building]," Battle said.
According to Battle, the proposed western look seemed to be southwestern, more suitable to New Mexico or Arizona, rather than the Cowboy Capital of the World. "It could still be done with a metal building, but clad in a different way. The architect needs to get more creative," Battle said.
When Vice Chairman Jason Williams suggested that stonework be added to the facade, Battle rejoined that developers are "mindful of cost." He added that while having a Dollar General on Main Street "might not be the ideal," it would be acceptable "as long as it looks western and creates business."
Phillip LaBarre said that an awning placed along the front of the store could create a western ambiance in addition to stone or stucco and wood facade.
It was also noted that new construction within the city should come with a mandate to provide ADA-accessible sidewalks, which is a requirement in San Antonio. In this case the sidewalks should be five-feet wide as opposed to the proposed four feet.
Additionally, at 64 square feet, the proposed free-standing sign and at 140 square feet, the sign on the front of the building, are, of course, larger than allowed by the current sign ordinance. However, LaBarre felt the current signs were "close enough to make it work."
Additionally, drainage from the developed property must meet the requirements of the city, Cardenas said. In this case, even with more impervious cover, the run-off must be no more than occured off the property in its undeveloped state. City engineer Rudy Klein uses calculations to determine an acceptable amount of drainage, Cardenas said.
"Dollar General has submitted a new drainage plan to the city engineer," Cardenas said, "but I haven't reviewed it yet."
When the discussions concluded, members of P&Z recommended that Dollar General developers:
• Be required to adhere to the five-foot setback requirement in keeping with existing construction on Main Street.
• Extend a western motif to three sides of the building, rather than just the façade facing Main Street.
• Design signage with a "western flair," using colors recommended by the master plan. Additionally, all signage must comply with the city sign ordinance.
• Provide all information requested by Klein, including an approved Texas Department of Transportation permit and drainage requirements.
• Replat the property to remove a small parcel that had previously been carved out for an off-premises digital sign.
• Construct ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant sidewalks.
Cardenas would forward the P&Z recommendations to representatives of Dollar General, along with a copy of the city's sign ordinance.
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Finally! the ReactOS 0.3.17 version is about to be released!
During the past weeks we couldn't share too much info regarding the Community Edition because our time has been kidnapped by the 0.3.17 release. Enjoy what's coming!
As you may know, 0.3.16 was released in February this year. During the past months, tons of new features, rewrites and fixes have been piling up, so it was time to create a new awesome ReactOS version. 8 months of development is a lot and we're sure you'll really enjoy this new ReactOS version. Thanks to your debug log, we took special care about Real Hardware, so several rigs and hardware sets are now working! Also the Community Edition crowdfunding has helped to push 0.3.17 to a new level of compatibility, and this is just the start. Imagine what's coming in 0.4.
That's right! 0.3.17 is the definitive "Bye Bye" of the 0.3.x series which has been living with us for about 7 years. It just seems like "yesterday" we branched the revision r25456 as our 0.3.0 release in August 2006, and today we're about to release 0.3.17! There are literally 2.5 times more fixes between 0.3.0 to 0.3.17 than from the very first release to 0.3.0!
No, you really don't want to try 0.3.0 in VBOX.. In fact you simply can't, as VBOX wasn't even supported at that time.


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Whitechapel/Carnifex Touring this fall!
Metal Blade Records' very own Whitechapel will be touring this November! Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Entheos, and So This Is Suffering will be supporting this insane package! Whitechapel will be playing "The Somatic Defilement" in full to celebrate its ten year anniversary so be sure to attend this amazing tour!
Snag merchandise from Whitechapel, Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, and So This Is Suffering by heading to the link below!
Summer Slaughter Tour 2017 Announced!
This years' Summer Slaughter Tour has been announced! The Black Dahlia Murder will headline and play "Nocturnal" in its entirety! IndieMerchstore bands Dying Fetus, The Faceless,
Origin, and Rings Of Saturn will be joining Oceano, Slaughter To Prevail, Betraying The Martyrs, and Lorna Shore!
Dates for the Summer Slaughter Tour are below. See you there! If you can't make it to a show, you can order merch from all of the IndieMerchstore bands that are on the tour by heading to the link below!
7/27 – Reading, PA @ Reverb
7/28 – Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
7/29 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
7/30 – NYC @ Webster Hall
8/02 – Knoxville, TN @ The International
8/03 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
8/05 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live
8/06 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Live
8/07 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
8/09 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
8/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
8/11 – Anaheim, CA @ Grove of Anaheim
8/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
8/13 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
8/15 – San Francisco, CA @ The UC Theater
8/17 – Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
8/19 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
8/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze
8/22 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
8/23 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
8/25 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theater
8/26 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
Carnifex/Despised Icon Tour updates + Contest!
UPDATE from the Road 2/9:
The tour has been insane so far! Some of the shows have been selling out so be sure to get your tickets to upcoming shows! Check out the pics to below to see whats in store for you…Carnifex is also playing a ripping Slipknot cover that is Corey Taylor approved!
IndieMerchstore is thrilled to be sponsoring this Carnifex and Despised Icon co-headlining tour! Fellow IMS bands Fallujah and Rings Of Saturn (Unique Leader Records) along with Lorna Shore and She Must Burn will be support on one of the best tour packages of the year. Despised Icon Jumps on 3/18 which is soon! To celebrate, we are giving away a pair of tickets to EVERY date of the tour! Click on the banner below to enter! We have drawn winners for the first dates so far but there are still plenty of entries to win!
This tour is shaping up to be something special, as Carnifex is playing one of their longest sets as a band, covering material from their latest release "Slow Death" along with classics from their extended catalog. Despised Icon will be playing places in the US that they haven't toured in years and will be playing selections off "Beast" and fan favorites. You can snag merch from these bands along with Fallujah and Rings of Saturn by heading to the link below or clicking on any of the images:
Thy Art Is Murder headlining tour announced!
Thy Art Is Murder is headlining a full US trek titled "The Coffin Dragger Tour!" Rings Of Saturn, Fit For An Autopsy, and Dark Sermon will be supporting the run on what is sure to be one of the heaviest tours of the year! The band will also be announcing their new singer soon so stay tuned for more details.
Dates are on the flyer below.
The band also has some tour blowout merch available on their store which you can snag on the cheap! Shirts, beanies, hats, pullovers and more! Snag some before they sell out!
Thy Art Is Murder official merch.
Summer Slaughter Canadian tour dates announced!
Thats right Canada! Summer Slaughter Tour is heading your way! This run features The Faceless, Rings Of Saturn, Archspire, Fallujah, Fatality, and Black Crown Initiate! Dates are below…see you there!
8/14 Quebec City, QC @ Dagobert
8/15 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounes Electriques
8/16 Toronto, QC @ Mod Club
8/17 Jonquiere, QC @ Salle Nikitoutagan
8/18 Trois-Rivieres, QC @ Rock Cafe
8/19 Sherbrooke, QC @ Le Magog
8/20 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon Nightclub
8/23 Edmonton, AB @ Pawn Shop
8/24 Kelowna, BC @ Sapphire Nightclub
8/25 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
8/26 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
8/27 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
8/28 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
The US version is going strong! Here are the remaining dates so don't miss this if it comes to your area!
7/25 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
7/26 – Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn
7/27 – Dallas, TX @ GMBG
7/29 – St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theater
7/30 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
7/31 – Knoxville, TN @ The International
8/01 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
8/02 – Chicago, IL @ Mojoes
8/03 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre
8/05 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
8/06 – Detroit, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom
8/07 – Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre
8/08 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
8/09 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
8/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
8/12 – Springfield, VA @ Empire (NO MA)
Summer Slaughter full lineup and dates announced!
Update: Check out the trailer for the tour! This thing rules:
The most extreme tour of the year has returned with its most devastating and anticipated line-up yet. The 6th annual Summer Slaughter Tour, presented by Indie Merch Store, Peavey, Ibanez and SoundCheck Hollywood, is now officially slated to run from July 20th through August 25th. It features such heavyweights as Cannibal Corpse, Between The Buried and Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil of Maya, Job For A Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed and Cerebral Bore, with special guests TBA in each city such as The Contortionist, Rings of Saturn, Fallujah and more.
Ash Avildsen (Summer Slaughter Founder) states: "Without a doubt, this is the biggest year in the history of the tour. We are honored to have such an incredible, diverse group of musicians all on the same bill. It's brutal, classic, progressive, fresh and still the most extreme tour of the year. Drink lots of water before you show up and get ready to rage!"
General Admission Tickets go on sale Friday April 27th. VIP Tickets will be available starting tonight from SoundCheck Hollywood.
Be sure to visit www.facebook.com/summerslaughtertour for all up-to-date news and ticketing information.
7/20- Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
7/21- San Diego, CA @ SOMA
7/22- Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
7/23- Scottsdale, AZ @ Venue of Scottsdale
7/25- Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
7/26- San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
7/27- Mission, TX @ Pharr Events Center
7/28- Houston, TX @ House of Blues
7/30- Tampa, FL @ The Ritz
7/31- Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
8/01- Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
8/02- Knoxville, TN @ The Valarium
8/03- Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
8/04- Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
8/05- Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
8/07- Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
8/08- New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
8/09- Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
8/10- Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
8/11- Montreal, QC @ Heavy Montreal
8/12- Toronto, ON @ Heavy Toronto
8/14- Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
8/15- Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's
8/16- Chicago, IL @ House Blues
8/17- Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
8/18- St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
8/20- Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
8/22- Seattle, WA @ The Showbox Sodo
8/23- Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
8/24- San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
8/25- Anaheim, CA @ The Grove
Check out the exclusive artwork for the official tour shirt that will be available at all the shows! Killer!
Cattle Decapitation/Decrepit Birth/Aborted to tour with Origin and more!
A tour of epic proportions. Origin headlining with Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth, Aborted, Rings Of Saturn, and Battlecross in tow. Dates are below. See you in the slam pit!
04/20 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
04/21 Wilmington, DE – Mojo 13
04/22 Trenton, NJ – Backstage @ Champs
04/24 Brooklyn, NY – Europa
04/26 Peoria, IL – The Brass Rail
04/27 Joliet, IL – Mojoes
04/28 Portage, IN – Camelot Arena
04/29 St. Louis, MO – Fubar
05/02 Albuquerque, NM – El Rey Theatre
05/04 San Diego, CA – Ruby Room
05/05 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse
05/06 West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go Go
05/07 Fullerton, CA – Slidebar
05/08 San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
05/09 Stockton, CA – Plea For Peace Center
05/10 Sparks, NV – The Alley
05/11 Portland, OR – Branx
05/12 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
05/13 Boise, ID – The Venue
05/14 Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue
05/15 Denver, CO – The Summit
05/18 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
Cattle Decapitation official merch store.
Decrepit Birth official merch store.
Decapitated, Decrepit Birth, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Rings of Saturn, The HAARP machine tour!
Dates are as follows:
09/30/11 Montage Music Hall – Rochester, NY
10/01/11 Kingdom – Richmond, VA
10/02/11 The Acheron – Atlanta, GA
10/03/11 State Theater – St. Petersburg, FL
10/05/11 White Rabbit San Antonio, TX
10/07/11 Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
10/08/11 SOMA – San Diego, CA
10/09/11 Foro Alicia – Mexico City, MÉXICO
10/10/11 The Whisky – Hollywood, CA
10/11/11 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
10/12/11 Branx – Portland, OR
10/14/11 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
10/15/11 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA
10/16/11 Republik – Calgary, AB – CANADA
10/17/11 The Exchange – Regina, SK – CANADA
10/18/11 Park Theater – Winnipeg, MB – CANADA
10/20/11 Miramar Theatre – Milwaukee, WI
10/21/11 Mojoe's – Joliet, IL
10/22/11 Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH
10/23/11 Peabody's – Cleveland, OH
10/24/11 Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA
10/26/11 Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA
10/27/11 Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
10/28/11 The Reverb – Reading, PA
10/29/11 Saints & Sinners Fest – Asbury Park, NJ
10/30/11 Jaxx – Springfield, VA


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Here are some more shots with Cici. It's beginning to sink into me that I must use a higher shutter speed to get sharper images especially for portraits. That means I almost always need additional sources of light. I bought a LumoPro off camera flash and a couple of reflectors yesterday . That should help in the future.
This week is red time (as opposed to green time); I will plan to plan, get junk off my computer, and dumdidum clean out the garage. I am hopeful that this off time will help me come up with some refreshing ideas for my next video (whatever it may be).


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Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson: The Man who Bet on Everything, due out in November from W.W. Norton.
Who was Titanic Thompson?
He was one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century. His life intersects with Al Capone and Harry Houdini. Hogan and Nelson looked up to him. He was born in 1892 in a log cabin in the Ozarks. He left home at 15 with nothing and started traveling. He was self-taught and he was charmer. He had a computer-like mind for the odds in poker. He would cheat and mark cards like you wouldn't believe. He cheated at everything.
So he was a scam artist and a gambler who found golf to be easy prey for suckers.
What drew me to Titanic and to Old Tom Morris, who was the subject of my last book, was that Titanic was a guy that I had heard about through the years from old pro golfers who talked about him as this guy who did some unbelievable things. So for years I kept waiting for the movie to come out and it never did. So after awhile I decided that I would go out and try to sort out the fact from the legend on this guy.
When did he emerge as a golf hustler?
He was 40 years old before he ever started playing golf. What he realized is that there is a lot better money in golf than there is in shooting pool. He used to hustle pool with Minnesota Fats. While the pro golfers of his day might play for $10,000 in a whole year, Titanic sometimes played for as much as $15,000 a hole. He could play left-handed or right-handed.
What were some of his main golf scams?
He would let you beat him by a couple of strokes. Then he would tell you lets play for ten times what we just played for and I'll play left handed. He would also team up with a lot of noteworthy pros before they were famous. He teamed up with Herman Keiser who won the 1946 Masters. He could take these great players on the road with him because this was before TV. So they didn't have famous faces. They would travel with him and pretend to be his caddie — dressed in overalls.
Did Titanic really beat Byron Nelson in a match in 1934?
Nelson was a real straight arrow. He wasn't a big gambler. In those days you would play and a friend would stake you. So Nelson's big money friends in Forth Worth would back him. Byron didn't want to know how much he was playing for. Nelson is reaching his prime and he beats Titanic by a stroke. Only later did he find out that before the match that Titanic had arranged with Nelson's backers to get three shots. So he won the bet. He would famously beat a guy by a shot to encourage him to play for more money.
What was Titanic's relationship with Hogan?
He once helped Hogan get work at an illegal gambling house between Dallas and Ft. Worth. Hogan told Harvey Penick that Titanic was the best shot maker that he had ever seen.
Why didn't he play the pro tour?
Titanic would always answer that question by saying that he couldn't afford the cut in pay. By the time the money was significant on the tour he was too old to play. Also he wasn't a guy who was going to wake up early or play when somebody told him to play. He set up his own matches.
What's the story behind the bet that he could drive a ball 500 yards?
He made this bet in the middle of the summer in Chicago. But he didn't say when he would do it. Some of Capone's cronies chipped in thousands of dollars to cover him. December comes around and he goes out to the frozen Lake Michigan and drives the ball onto the ice. These were called proposition bets and this was his specialty. He would make a crazy sounding bet and sometimes guys would just bet him to see if he could pull it off.
That sounds like a scene out of Tin Cup.
Gary McCord was a big fan of Titanic and he knows all of these stories. So he adapted some of them for the movie.
In the book you talk about Titanic traveling through the South with Lee Elder, the first black to play in the Masters in 1975.
Titanic loved company on the road. He drove this big Pierce-Arrow car. Sometimes he would drive 60 mph backward just to prove that he could do it. In those days it was pretty unusual to have a black golfer and white golfer traveling together. He would pass Elder off as his caddie and his driver. He unsuccessfully tried to get Raymond Floyd and Lee Trevino to join him in this same scam, but he did set a match between them in 1965 that Trevino won. Thompson lost this bet, however.
Did Titanic have rivals?
There were other people who did the same thing like John Montague and Jeanne Carmen, who was the most famous female golf hustler. She did this trick where she would stack three balls on a tee and drive the middle ball 200 yards, the top ball would pop up and she would catch it and the bottom ball stayed on the tee. But Titanic didn't really have enemies. There was a great Indiana pool player by the name of Daddy Warbucks who once came after Titanic with a gun. But they ended up working together.
What happened to Titanic?
He wound up broke like seemingly most gamblers. The match between Trevino and Floyd was his last shot.
Is there a lot of gambling today on the PGA Tour?
Yes, but I think it's mostly for fun during the practice rounds. These guys are making so much money now. Most of the old-timers will tell you that the gambling was a lot more important in their day. When Hogan and Nelson were on tour they could make more money by playing each other than they could in the tournament. When Herman Keiser won the Masters he got $2,500. He made that in a day sometimes with Titanic.
How did Alvin Clarence Thompson get the nickname Titanic?
He went into a pool hall in Joplin, Missouri shortly after the Titanic sank in 1912. He sees a sign that says that $200 will go to anyone who jumps over a particular pool table. He comes back with an old mattress and gets a running start and does a flip over the pool table into the mattress. He wins the $200. The owner of the pool hall says I don't know his name but it ought to be Titanic because he sinks everybody.
Is it harder today to do what Titanic was able to do in his day? Do people take fewer risks because of our relative comfort to most people in Titanic's day in the first part of the 20th century? Are we less naïve?
In Titanic's day people admired outlaws. Also you have to remember that word didn't travel as fast as it does now. He would go into one little town and just take all the money and on down the road he would go.
How much money did he make hustling?
In San Francisco playing cards with Nick the Greek he got around $1 million. There were many times on the golf course where he would play for $30,000 to $50,000. He certainly went through many millions of dollars in his day.
Where is Titanic buried?
Colleyville, Texas, near Dallas. He died in 1974.
Is there one of his scams that you want to try?
Yes. I can throw a watermelon to the roof of a 20-story building. The way you do that is that you take an elevator to the 21st floor, and after you've made the bet you walk over to a window and pitch it off the side to the roof of the 20-story building.


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Windows Phone 8 is at least a few months out, but the new operating system is reportedly being tested on Nokia Lumia 800 devices already. The update is being tested by a Microsoft employee based in the U.S., according to a poster on the China-based WPXAP.com forums. Here's where it gets juicy, though: the Microsoft employee is also reportedly testing Windows Phone 8 on an unreleased device, too. We're teeming with anticipation to hear more about this device.
As WinRumors suggests, if Windows Phone 8 is indeed already running on a Lumia 800 device, we may see an upgrade made available to devices that are already currently on the market. Recent reports have suggested that won't happen, though. We're guessing the first generation Windows Phone 7 devices will be left out of the upgrade, simply because we hope Windows Phone 8 adds features that take advantage of the faster processors in the latest batch of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango phones. We also want to see Microsoft push the platform as far as possible, even if it means leaving first-round adopters in the cold. After all, those users should be up for an upgrade about the time Windows Phone 8 hits anyway.
Still, we imagine Windows Phone 8 will add new features as well, such as NFC, which isn't currently supported by the Lumia 800 or any other Windows Phone device for that matter.
There are several app compatibility issues, according to the poster, but we imagine developers still have plenty of time to get those bugs ironed out. We haven't verified any of these rumors, but we'd certainly love in Microsoft issued a Windows Phone 8 update to Windows Phone 7.5 devices. It would certainly show that there's less fragmentation in Microsoft's platform than Android, at least.
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Buick Achievers Scholarship
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Award: $25000
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Making a difference today and becoming a leader for tomorrow. If those words describe you, we can help. The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program, funded by the GM Foundation, is designed to help students who are leaders in both the classroom and their communities, but who may not have the financial means to attend college. The scholarship program will award 100 renewable scholarships for up to $25,000 per year and 1,000 one-time scholarships for $2,000. The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program is open to high school seniors or college undergraduate students who plan to major in a specified course of study that focuses on Engineering/Technology or select Design and Business-related programs at an accredited four-year U.S. college or university. Scholarships will be awarded based on participation and leadership in community and school activities, interest in the automotive industry, academic achievement, and financial need. Special consideration will be given to those who are a first-generation college student, female, minority, military veteran or a dependent of military personnel. If you have the passion to succeed, the Buick Achievers Scholarship Program is looking for you.
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